{"id":2604,"date":"2012-03-19T06:05:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2012-03-19T06:05:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:05:51","slug":"tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-available-on-blu-raydvd-march-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Available on Blu-ray\/DVD March 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u201d available on Blu-ray Combo pack with Ultraviolet, DVD and On-Demand 3\/20.<\/strong>
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\nDense and intriguing, \u201cTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u201d demands your utmost concentration. Now that you have the luxury of watching this excellent spy thriller at home I suggest you turn off your cell phones, turn on the subtitles and give the film your undivided attention. If you still have trouble comprehending then perhaps you can try reading the classic novel by John le Carre of which the film was based. Read it out loud; slowly and in the mirror and then maybe you can decipher what actually happens. If that doesn\u2019t work, then forget it. It wasn\u2019t meant to be. <\/p>\n

Judging from the wigs and earthen tones of the furniture and clothes, \u201cTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u201d takes place in the early 70\u2019s. It is the peak of the Cold War and it seems that a Russian mole has infiltrated the top tier of Britain\u2019s Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. M16 and code-named the Circus. The recently ousted George Smiley (Gary Oldman), who was a top lieutenant at the Circus before he was forced to leave to make room for the new regime, is secretly tapped to expose the mole and restore order. <\/p>\n

The suspects are quickly narrowed to five men, of which Smiley himself is a suspect. What unfolds is an intricately woven international spy game that will keep you guessing to the final frame.
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\nGary Oldman was, of course, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and his work here is very strong, grounding the film with a near blank expression. Known for huge, over-the-top performances Oldman reveals a subtle side to his acting and tells much of Smiley\u2019s story with his eyes and small gestures. Fantastic work. And the fact that the character\u2019s name is Smiley and the man never cracks even the slightest grin during the film\u2019s 2 plus hour is a perfect little quirk.<\/p>\n

An extraordinary supporting cast that reads as a \u201cbest of\u201d list of contemporary British actors surrounds Oldman. Colin Firth (\u201cThe King\u2019s Speech\u2019) and Toby Jones (\u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d) play integral roles and it is refreshing to see Mark Strong (\u201cSherlock Holmes\u201d) play a part that does call for him to be the villain. Tom Hardy (\u201cInception\u201d) pops up proving that the young actor is in every important movie nowadays. The women don\u2019t get much to do, unfortunately. I guess this sort of thing was left the boys back in the day.<\/p>\n

Thanks to director Tomas Alfredson (\u201cLet the Right One In) \u201cTTSS\u201d looks like a movie plucked directly from the 70\u2019s and shares a visual aesthetic with the other adaptation of the novel, the 1979 mini-series that starred Sir Alec Guinness in role of Smiley. The pacing is amazing and the telling of this complicated story is handled amazingly well. I\u2019m not really kidding about the subtitles though. In an entertainment world that usually force-feeds us a steady diet of \u201cTransformers\u201d sequels and Adam Sandler movies, \u201cTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u201d is a much-needed challenge. It may seem foreign and strange to have to use your brain while watching this film but stick with it. It is more than worth it.
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\nBlu-ray Special Features:
\nFeature Commentary with director Tomas Alfredson and actor Gary Oldman
\nTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: First Look
\nInterviews with the cast and and author John le Carr\u00e9
\nMy Scenes
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\nDigital Copy
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\u201cTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u201d available on Blu-ray Combo pack with Ultraviolet, DVD and On-Demand 3\/20. Dense and intriguing, \u201cTinker Tailor Soldier Spy\u201d demands your utmost concentration. Now that you have the luxury of watching this excellent spy thriller at home I suggest you turn off your cell phones, turn on the subtitles and give the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4609,8122,22936,23016,23047],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvdblu-ray-reviews","tag-colin-firth","tag-gary-oldman","tag-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-movie","tag-tom-hardy","tag-tomas-alfredson"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}