Sophia Loren: ‘The body changes. The mind does not’
The 86-year-old, star of the Netflix drama The Life Ahead, looks back at her own life, from the squalor of wartime Naples to the glamour of international fame
The Undoing review – Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman start to unravel
A moneyed couple, a seductive stranger, a murder ... HBO’s latest series has all the usual thriller hallmarks, but its stellar performances make it truly gripping
Lily James: ‘I got sucked into the vortex. I didn’t know which way to turn’
She made her name playing sunny sweethearts, but now James is going gothic in a new Rebecca. She talks getting spooked on set, Covid bubbles and co-stars
Adeel Akhtar: ‘People are ready to stretch their ideas on diversity’
The Bafta-winning actor on Four Lions, Enola Holmes and why he spent lockdown retracing his family history – and trampolining
Sidse Babett Knudsen: the Borgen star mixing Danish drama and Westminster intrigue
Set to reprise her role as prime minister in new series of hit Scandi drama, actor is just as excited to share limelight in David Hare thriller, Roadkill
Samantha Morton: ‘My favourite TV villain? It’s vain, but I think it’s me in The Walking Dead’
The film and TV star on her hatred of the Kardashians, her love of Four in a Bed and why she’d love to be on Horrible Histories
Ratched review – gothic, gory thrills with the Cuckoo’s Nest villain
Sarah Paulson is brilliantly menacing as Nurse Ratched in Ryan Murphy’s latest Netflix series, which melds the 1975 film with his American Horror Story hallmarks
Lovers Rock review – Steve McQueen throws the best party ever
Filled with rows, romance and sexual adventure, this story of an uproarious celebration in 80s west London is an audacious, euphoric experience
‘I’m a loner’: Gillian Jacobs on the snarky art of playing misfits
In Community, Girls and Love the actor has been an activist, an artist and an addict. As her new film, I Used to Go Here, opens, she talks about why she likes messy, complex characters
Cynthia Nixon: ‘Will Donald Trump leave quietly? I don’t know’
The actor who once ran to be governor of New York is political to her bones, passionate about trans rights, Black Lives Matter and the future of the left. She discusses the rise of Trump – and why she’s still optimistic
Line of Duty’s Rochenda Sandall: ‘There are so many dimensions to domestic abuse’
After her villainous role in the explosive police drama, the star is playing an isolated woman in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads and an activist in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe
‘This show is just the start’: inside the BBC’s all-person-of-colour A Suitable Boy
It has 110 actors, is based on one of the longest books in English - and it’s the BBC’s first historical drama with no white characters. But some think the series doesn’t go far enough. We take a look behind the scenes
‘Mike Leigh’s office almost went up in flames’: casting directors tell all
As Bafta rewards scripted casting for the first time, those doing the choosing talk us through the process – from being flashed at in auditions to chasing would-be stars around with a tenner
Mrs America depicts one of feminism’s toughest battles – the fight against female misogynists
From Gloria Steinem to Shirley Chisholm, there were some brilliant women pushing for equal rights in the 1970s. In Phyllis Schlafly, they found a formidable foe, says Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore
Brave New World: London reimagined after a disaster
A firm of architects had fun designing a dystopian version of the capital for a drama based on Aldous Huxley’s classic starring Demi Moore