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7 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 25 NOVEMBER 2018 TV, MUSIC AND BOOKS The Girl in the Spider's Web In cinemas now The Girl in the Spider's Web Fired from the National Security Agency, Frans Balder recruits hacker Lisbeth Salander in Sweden to steal FireWall, a computer program that can access codes for nuclear weapons worldwide. The download soon draws attention from an NSA agent who traces the activity to Stockholm. Further problems arise when Russian thugs take Lisbeth's laptop and kidnap a math whiz who can make FireWall work. Now, Lisbeth and an unlikely ally must race against time to save the boy and recover the codes to avert disaster. The fi fth out of the series, will this movie live up to its predecessors? One Mile Above (a.k.a Kora) Based on a true story, One Mile Above depicts a young man's cycling journey to the highest point in Tibet to fulfi ll his brother's fi nal wish. It was a journey of more than 1800 kilometers, during which Shuhao met many Tibetan people, received heartwarming help and also encountered unexpected hardship. For many a time his life was at risk, but there always was an inner strength that helped him persist and pushed him to accomplish his brother's trip. The movie, which is in Mandarin Chinese, with English subtitles, can be watched at Spazju Kreattiv on Tuesday 27 November at 7.30pm. The Princess Switch Just one week before Christmas, a duchess switches places with an ordinary woman from Chicago, who looks exactly like her, to see what life on the other side is like. What happens when they discover a new life and fall in love with each other's beaus? The Christmas rom-com might be just what you're looking for if you want a romantic night in tonight. Watch it on Netfl ix now. Rita Ora – Phoenix Rita Ora's has fi nally dropped her second album, Phoenix, arriving six years after her chart-topping debut Ora. The album already features a plethora of hits, including Top 10s Your Song, Anywhere, For You and Let You Love Me. Featuring Ora's distinc- tive voice and the likes of Liam Payne, Rudimental, and the late Avicii, the album is bound to become a hit. Take That – Odyssey It's been many years but this British band is still making music their fans love. 30-year-old band, Take That released a re-imagined album 'Odyssey' which takes the listener on a journey through the incredible musical history of the beloved band. The band released the album ahead of next year's hits tour next year. If you're a Take That fan, the album will surely feature some of your favourite songs. Architects - Holy Hell Metalcore band, Architects, released their eighth album earlier this month. Holy Hell is exactly what you'd expect from the band, and so much more. The album is the fi rst to be released since the tragic and widely publicised death of guitarist and pri- mary songwriter Tom Searle. Because of this, the album is riddled with grief which only escalates the music to a deeper meaning that the listeners can easily hear. Mewt Go Venezja – Thomas Mann, translated by Alfred Palma Death in Venice is a novella written by the German author Thomas Mann and was fi rst published in 1912. The work presents a great writer suffering writer's block who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed, by the sight of a stunningly beautiful youth. Though he never speaks to the boy, much less touches him, the writer fi nds himself drawn deep into ruinous inward passion; meanwhile, Venice, and fi nally, the writer himself, succumb to a cholera plague. The novella is powerfully intertextual, with the chief sources being fi rst the connection of erotic love to philosophical wisdom traced in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, and second the Nietzschean contrast between the god of restraint and shaping form, Apollo, and the god of excess and passion, Dionysus. The Italian Teacher – Tom Rachman The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome's historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre of the picture. His wife, Natalie, edges out of the shot. What makes an artist? In The Italian Teacher, Tom Rachman displays a nuanced understanding of art and its demons. The book was also recently short- listed for the Costa Book Award 2018. An Unremarkable Body – Elisa Lodato One day in 2012, 30-year-old Laura arrives at her mother Katharine's house in Surbiton, Laura's childhood home, only to discover her mother's body lying in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, her neck broken by the fall. In the months that follow, while Laura attempts to process her grief, questions about her mother's life start to nag her. What to watch, listen to and read this week Movies and TV shows Music Books Mewt go Venezja – Thomas Mann Phoenix - Rita Ora