Edmonton woman reflects on her secret life as a Second World War Enigma code cracking ‘Wren’

National Post ^ | November 11, 2014 | Dan Barnes

[xp38]

It won the best movie prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. That gives it a huge boost to win the Academy Award as well. The Film Festival award has predicted the best picture 6 times in the past including last year.

[xp38]

correction...5 times in the past

[afraidfortherepublic]

That is a given among British mystery series, I’ve noticed. Bailey & Scott, Vera, etc. Even The Paradise and Rosemary & Thyme. I wouldn’t take it too seriously.

[driftless2]

I was watching this touted BBC series the other night "Worricker: Turks and Caicos." Never having seen it before, I started watching it hoping for a good show. The plot turned out to be about evil, CIA operatives erecting clandestine interrogation i.e. torture buildings around the world to punish captured terrorists and making money from them. And of course, I was supposed to be outraged at the perfidy. No thank you.

I'm generally a fan of many Brit mystery and comedy series, but the rank leftist propaganda in many of them irritates the h... out of me.

[Dr. Ursus]

Very true. However the British had Alan Turing.

[Mark17]

Most of the earlier settlers just copied names from back home and even now, I bet a lot of the UK doesn't know there is a Boston in Lincolnshire.

Yep, London and Peterborough, Ontario to name a couple. Brighton, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dover, York and Jersey to name others. It's not just the old country either. Fort Bragg, NC and Fort Bragg, CA were named after the same Confederate officer. Fairfield, CA was named after Fairfield, Conn, by Sea Witch Captain Robert Waterman, of Fairfield, Conn, also for whom Waterman Blvd in Fairfield, CA is named after. I am sure there are many many more as well.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I was watching this touted BBC series the other night "Worricker: Turks and Caicos."

I noticed that too, when I could get beyond Bill Nighy and Helena Bonham Carter paired in a romance, to say nothing of Winona Ryder! It was a good movie, though, but not good enough to save. I'll watch the next one, hoping that the story gets better (more believable).

[bunster]

Hi -please excuse the private reply rather than on-line.

But - I read a little about the movie and that Alan Turing (Cumberbatch) was gay. I can’t wait to see how they handle that as most usually Hollywood would have him with some affair with Keira and then deciding he was gay — where I’m hoping they don’t do that and just pose him as a serious mechanic of the puzzle before him. We’ll see I guess. Any thoughts lets me know.

[xp38]

Yeah I recall that being a big selling point on this flick. For that reason I have no interest in this one but look for it at Oscar time.

[xp38]

There are some reviews on IMDB already from early screenings and the ratings are for the most part 10 out of 10.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/reviews?ref_=tt_urv