Bridge of Spies_now
TV
When Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler starts listening in on the day-to-day business of an East German playwright, he hears more than what his subject is planning to have for tea. But instead of discovering a plot to overthrow the government, the state snooper soon realises he’s merely being used as a puppet in a personal grudge held by one of his superiors. Wiesler’s
Qinfluence on the lives of the writer and his girlfriend starts to shift. The Lives of Others weaves a gripping story, but it wouldn’t be half as good without the brilliant performances of its central characters. The dream team of Hanks and Spielberg is reunited, with Hanks playing the conduit in a spy-swapping deal between the US and the Russians in the late ’50s. K2
Little Fictions is a record of subtle melodies and multi-layered percussion, Tom Wiggins ++++,