Tinker Tailor

Il film La Talpa è ambientato negli anni 70 e racconta la storia di George Smiley, un ex agente del MI6 ormai in pensione, alle prese con la nuova vita fuori dai servizi segreti. Quando un agente caduto in disgrazia gli rivela la presenza di una talpa nel cuore del Circus, Smiley è costretto a rientrare nel torbido mondo dello spionaggio. Incaricato di …

Simon Russell Beale stars as the intelligence officer George Smiley in a three-part dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carré's classic novel, first published in 1979 and the third in the celebrated Karla Trilogy following Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy. The final novel of John le Carre's Karla Trilogy opens with George Smiley feeling that he's outlived his usefulness. It's three years since he left "the Circus" and his era has long since been swept aside by a new Whitehall regime. But when a high-ranking officer in the Soviet army who defected to work for British Intelligence is found shot dead on Hampstead Heath, Smiley once again becomes a part of present-day matters of espionage. Episode one deals mainly with the early hours of the former spymaster's investigation into his old colleague's death…

Instead of seeing your friends on this fine, sunny spring day, you've decided to spend the rest of the day indoors. Normally you're not this big of a nerd, but hey, with a new Radiohead record at the precipice of release, everyone embraces their inner boring nerds. It happened back in 2007 when the band announced the release of In Rainbows ten days before release, creating the model for "pay what you wish" album buying for the future to come. Or back in 2011 when the band stated The King Of Limbs would come out in five days, only to release it in four. The band's continued dedication to keep us on our toes and totally fuck up our plans for whatever we were going to do is ingrained in that Radiohead charm.

Yardbirds/Featuring Performances by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page contains a selection of live, rare and alternate takes, plus a handful of hits, that the Yardbirds recorded at various times during their career. There are certainly some fine moments here, but they can be found on better, more coherent collections that offer a better portrait of the Yardbirds' career, or at least their rarities.

Yardbirds/Featuring Performances by Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page contains a selection of live, rare and alternate takes, plus a handful of hits, that the Yardbirds recorded at various times during their career. There are certainly some fine moments here, but they can be found on better, more coherent collections that offer a better portrait of the Yardbirds' career, or at least their rarities.