Michael Jayston played George Smiley’s right-hand man Peter Guillam in the BBC’s acclaimed 1979 adaptation of John le Carré’s classic spy tale. As part of the BBC’s Centenary of Drama, and over four ...

A BBC miniseries inspired by a book has been hailed as the “best thing ever on TV” by fans who have been left mesmerised ...

The question at the heart of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is simplicity itself: Is there a Soviet secret agent at the very highest echelons of British intelligence? Getting to the answer, however, ...

In the 2010s, the best spy movie had nothing to do with James Bond or Jason Bourne, and this masterpiece was the opposite of ...

How do you know a colleague has been sleeping with your wife? In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman) drops his eyes to the floor of his living room and lets them travel under a ...

Almost 20 minutes goes by before George Smiley (Gary Oldman) says a word in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and it’s this kind of quiet reservation that spills all over this adaptation of John le Carré’s ...

So many books have suffered such terrible fates at the movies that it's a huge a relief - a revelation, actually - when filmmakers get one right. Consider Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, an expertly ...

As much as we enjoy James Bond movies, we have to admit that their portrayal of the spy world is patently ludicrous. Respectfully, it's always been primarily a masculine power fantasy that treats ...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is predicated on a pair of enigmatic personalities: a colorless bureaucratic master spook, George Smiley; and a double agent the Soviets have planted near the top of ...