STACK #141 Jul 2016

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Following his big break in Captain Phillips , and an Oscar nomination, Somalian-born actor Barkhad Abdi returns as an undercover operative in Gavin Hood’s gripping drone warfare thriller.

E ye in the Sky is a film that not only raises important, topical issues, but also brings back painful memories of Barkhad Abdi’s own troubled past. In Gavin Hood’s critically acclaimed, edge of the seat thriller, he plays

undercover operative Jama Farah, who is tracking a group of terrorists on the ground in Nairobi. Thousands of miles away in London, the operation is being masterminded, and monitored via the use of cutting edge surveillance technology, by the UK military,

headed by Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) who, in turn, must report to British politicians every step of the way. Across the ocean in Nevada, Britain’s allies, the US, are providing drones that monitor the suspects as they gather in a house. The plan is to capture them, with

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