I love spy movies. Suspense, action, intrigue, intellectual plots and usually based on a true story. However, like zombie movies, there seems to be a never-ending supply of them, so there can be variation in quality. Breach is one that is definitely at the higher end of the scale as it has all the key ingredients of a classic spy movie. Breach is about how Robert Hanssen (Cooper), the FBI agent who caused the greatest breach in US national security by selling classified secrets to Russia for over 25 years, was finally caught and brought to justice by Eric ONeill (Phillippe). O'Neill was appointed as Hanssen's assistant with the sole purpose of gathering evidence to convict Hanssen of treason.

The suspense starts at the very beginning and it is amazing seeing how O'Neill - ambitious, youthful and nationalistic - plans and plots to bring down the older, more experienced Hanssen. The scary thing I found watching this is that it is all real and makes you wonder what secrets the government is so desperate to protect but won't tell us anything about in the name of 'national security'. You do need to pay attention though all the way through; I mean, it is a spy movie, not Clueless.

To me there are few things better to do on a cold winter's night than watch an espionage thriller in the warmth of the ANUFG, and as this is a particularly decent one, it is worth bracing the cold to see it. See you there.

Johnnie Aysgarth (Grant), a charming wastrel, meets the lonely but wealthy Lina McLaidlaw (Fontaine) on a train and sweeps her off her feet. They elope in Europe, despite opposition from her parents, and he introduces Lina to the pleasures of a carefree life. However Lina discovers the legacy of Johnnies irresponsible behaviour, his debts and possible infidelities, and gradually suspects through accumulated evidence that he intends to murder her.Based on the Frances Iles novel "Before the Fact", the film underwent a few studio-imposed changes during its adaptation from novel to the big screen, which altered the very nature of the story. Despite this, Alfred Hitchcock manages to build an atmosphere of suspense through eerie camerawork and visual suggestion, especially the famous scene where Grant carries a glass of milk up a spiral staircase to Fontaine who is certain that it is poisoned.Joan Fontaine's second collaboration with director Hitchcock and producer David Selznick (they had previously worked together on Rebecca) won her the Oscar for best actress.'