A popular docudrama about real and current events and personalities is a challenge, but they seem to have got this one about right. The film recounts the rise from nowhere of WikiLeaks, to its global prominence, and the strains and eventual breakdowns between Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks co-founders. It manages to be gripping and heroic (even in person of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger), with echoes of Lord of the Rings as well as All the President's Men. By the end of the film the Fellowship is broken, Assange's frailties are made clear, and this version of the story rings dreadfully true. But it is also a saga for our time, a thriller pleasingly situated (if somewhat bombastically) in a millenial battle for freedom of expression.

So why was Vue cinema Screen 8 so sparsely populated? Go see this film, and tell your friends, for the sake of our grandchildren.