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Helena Bonham Carter says The Crown should stress to viewers it’s a drama

Actor who plays Princess Margaret adds her voice to calls for Netflix to add a disclaimer

Uncle Frank review – fervent family drama from writer of American Beauty

Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in Alan Ball’s film about a bookish teenager, her academic uncle and his not entirely inner demons

Covid’s $325m hit to Australian TV and film industry ‘unprecedented’

Screen Australia says sector was set for record year when pandemic struck, forcing widespread closures, while full economic cost won’t be known for years

We Are Who We Are review – Luca Guadagnino’s teen drama burns slowly

The Call Me By Your Name director’s debut TV outing is beautifully shot and languorously paced, but it might need an energy boost if we are to stick with its angsty protagonist

Michael J Fox: ‘Every step now is a frigging math problem, so I take it slow’

After living with Parkinson’s for 30 years, the actor still counts himself a lucky man. He reflects on what his diagnosis has taught him about hope, acting, family and medical breakthroughs

Generation next: the rising stars of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe

The director and members of his brilliant young cast talk about his new BBC films

John Boyega interview: ‘It’s important to voice your truth’

The actor on playing the trailblazing British police officer Leroy Logan, and why he’ll always be a London boy

Steve McQueen: ‘Black people are weirdly missing from the narrative’

The acclaimed artist and film-maker answers questions from celebrity admirers including Idris Elba, Viola Davis, David Lammy and more

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

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