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Teresa Palmer: ‘What’s the strangest thing in my fridge? Oh my God – there is slime’

Star of The Family Next Door opens up about her own family’s phantom pooer, a mortifying run-in with Pete Murray, and her obsession with true crime

‘A sign of how we live now’: friction in Notting Hill over counter-terrorism barriers

Film tourists, market traders and residents react as council imposes traffic control measures on famous London street

From The Naked Gun to Wednesday: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Liam Neeson steps into Leslie Nielsen’s accident-prone shoes in a comic sequel, and the Addams Family’s most morbid member goes back to school

Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting

New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida

Conclave, The Brutalist and The Thursday Murder Club: what’s new to streaming in Australia in August

Plus Jason Momoa plays a real-life Hawaiian warrior chief, Keeley Hawes is a menopausal assassin, and a new Final Destination film

Pet Shop Boys, freaks and witches: the strange genius of Jack Bond and Jane Arden

Bond, who died in December, made some of the most original films in British cinema history – particularly the unsettling films he and Arden made together in the 1960s and 70s

Gary Busey pleads guilty to groping a woman at a New Jersey convention

Actor, 81, admitted he purposely touched a woman inappropriately at a horror film convention in 2022

My Oxford Year review – so-so Netflix romance trades on anglophilia

An American lives out her British dream in an uninspired yet competently assembled trifle from The Inbetweeners creator Iain Morris

A particular set of skills: how Liam Neeson went from ‘master actor’ to deadpan Naked Gun spoofery

As his turn in cop-comedy reboot brings rave reviews, we look back on the actor’s varied career, from Schindler’s List to Star Wars and, of course, Taken

There are no new superhero movies for the next six months – is Hollywood up to something?

For the first time since 2011, we face a six-month gap in the release schedule for cape-wearing heroes. But what caused the slowdown, and is it a victory for ‘real’ cinema?

The Room Next Door to Cairo Conspiracy: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore star in Pedro Almodóvar’s award-winning dive into English language features, while Tarik Saleh’s gripping glimpse into a power struggle is effectively the Muslim version of Conclave

The enduring brilliance of Peter Sellers: ‘There’s never been a better comic actor’

The actor was born 100 years ago – and his performances still induce hysteria today. Fans and collaborators like Michael Palin, Woody Allen and Lesley Anne-Down explain why

TV tonight: Alison Steadman has trouble with a giant jar of gherkins

More mishaps for Sue Jessop and family in Here We Go. Plus: the return of Mrs Brown’s Boys. Here’s what to watch this evening

Aamir Khan: India’s movie legend on a cut-price mission to save Bollywood

The superstar actor will release his latest film on YouTube so families who cannot afford cinema trips can watch

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight set to write next James Bond movie

British writer, whose credits include Dirty Pretty Things, will work with Denis Villeneuve on relaunch

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