Drop the needle, it’s the 1970s on screen – again

Decade of brown carpets and complicated hair lives on in a long line of retro movies

Sean Connery turns 90: An avatar of old-fashioned masculinity

The Scottish actor, voted ‘sexiest man alive’ for decades, started as a milkman and became ‘the greatest’ James Bond

John le Carré: the spymaster who was never left out in the cold

The spy novelist is 87, but his star has never shone brighter, with a BBC adaptation of ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ about to start

From Boba to Yoda: The A-Z of Star Wars

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is out on December 17th. Here’s your Star Wars guide

The spy who came in from the bank: fake Nazi agent named

World War II spy fooled British Nazis into believing he was a Gestapo agent was a London bank clerk who barely spoke German

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

Shock horror! It’s Kim Newman

For four decades, Kim Newman has provided a peerless commentary to the lesser known gems of horror cinema – and is a dab hand himself at the monster myths