John le Carré

The six-part adaptation struggles somewhat to convey the intricacies of the tight plot, but more than makes up for it with gripping performances. “A tense and subtle thriller” The Little Drummer Girl, a recent BBC/AMC mini-series based on the 1983 John le Carré spy novel, is a tense and subtle...

Warning: Spoilers follow! Carrie’s off “happy hunting”, Fara tries to recruit Aayan, and on the home front, Quinn is in an alcoholic tailspin. This episode, “Shalwar Kameez”, opens with a new sequence of arty credits (sans Brody, of course), with the Middle Eastern imagery indicating the season’s overseas focus. We...

Adapting a novel into a quality, well-structured, faithful film can be a difficult task, and one which directors often fail to execute, but when they do, we are left with artistic legacies of multimodal magnificence. With David Fincher’s latest success in bringing Gone Girl to the screen from Gillian...

Anton Corbijn’s film version of John le Carré’s novel follows Günter Wachtmann (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) as he attempts to track a Chechen Muslim in the hope that he will lead him to supporters of Al-Qaeda. However, Wachtmann must deal with factions within German Intelligence and interference from...