Seven Days in May

Rating: 8/10 (9 May 2020)

After George Smiley in 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' Gary Oldman plays another badass in old-fashioned glasses and despite the incredible makeup remains recognisably Oldman throughout.
Although suffused in the usual nostalgic glow that characterises all films set in the recent past it makes no bones about Churchill's cantankerousness and need to have a cigar and a glass of scotch perpetually at hand; and the extraordinary scene depicting Churchill on the Underground shows a fair amount of dramatic license has been taken...