Whether it's "Novocaine," "Mickey 17" or the "Black Bag, audiences are slow to show up for original films at the box office.

Focus Features' original spy thriller Black Bag (click here for tickets), from director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp, leans into the latter, exploring the strength of the matrimonial bonds between elite National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) agents George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and Kathryn St.

Given that many of these have managed to push the genre forward by exploring current political and social issues, the prospect of Steven Soderberghmaking an old-fashioned spy thriller about identifying a mole within a powerful institution may have seemed rather antiquated.