George Smiley

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Scottish actor Sean Connery at 90. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
Sean Connery turns 90: An avatar of old-fashioned masculinity

It is 44 years since Sean Connery appeared as an aging Robin Hood in Richard Lester’s under-estimated Robin and Marian. There was a great deal of wear(...)

Still beating: Alexander Skarsgård and Florence Pugh in ‘The Little Drummer Girl’
John le Carré: the spymaster who was never left out in the cold

All decent folk will feel glad for John le Carré. It must be gratifying to find yourself at the centre of the conversation as you negotiate your 87th (...)

Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) with Stormtroopers. Photograph: David James/ Lucasfilm 2015
From Boba to Yoda: The A-Z of Star Wars

Calm down. Calm down. We still have just over a month to wait until Star Wars: The Force Awakens strikes domestic cinemas. Despite the disappointment(...)

In documents declassified at the National Archives on October 24th, 2014, an agent codenamed Jack King is revealed to in fact be Eric Roberts, who until the summer of 1940 was working at the Euston Road branch of the Westminster bank.
The spy who came in from the bank: fake Nazi agent named

The World War II spy who fooled British Nazis into believing he was a Gestapo agent and persuaded them to work for him has been named as a London bank(...)

A Most Wanted Man review: Corbijn does Le Carré, Philip Seymour Hoffman steals the show

Philip Seymour Hoffman will return for extended cameos in the last two Hunger Games films, but his lead turn in Anton Corbijn’s take on a 2008 John(...)

Shock horror! It’s Kim Newman

Every now and then, when meeting an interviewee, one requires some identifying information to pick him or her out from the crowd. “I’ll be wearing a b(...)