Alison Brie: ‘The effects of trauma spider-webbed through the whole family’

Even as a young girl, Alison Brie knew how to entertain a crowd. Now, the star of Mad Men and Glow is tackling the heartbreak of her grandmother’s struggles with mental illness

From war carnage to Greek idyll: the 1917 team take on The Magus

Flushed with awards success, Sam Mendes and his partners at Neal Street Productions reveal their latest film, TV and theatre projects

Brian Blessed: ‘All my life, 90% of men have bored the arse off me’

Dressed in pyjamas and wellies, the great actor talks about his astronaut training in Russia, the original Cats – and putting his might behind his daughter Rosalind’s very personal plays

Gavin & Stacey, Doctor Who, Dracula: your ultimate guide to Christmas TV

TV quizzes, sitcom specials and an audience with Kylie - plus Adam reunites with Joe for a festive podcast and 007 heads over to a Highlands pile

The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 3 – Chernobyl

This tale of the 1986 Soviet nuclear meltdown combined disaster movie and conspiracy thriller into a near-perfect example of TV making

Douglas Hodge: ‘I almost had to head-butt Harold Pinter’

He’s the musicals maestro who’s now starring in everything from Joker to Gemini Man. He reveals how he went from working men’s clubs to Hollywood – via a Pinteresque spell in theatre

Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash?

They’ve conquered the box office. Now it’s payback time. As they are attacked by film-makers like Martin Scorsese, are TV and movie superheroes fighting a losing battle against reality?

The week in TV: Dublin Murders; Living With Yourself; Giri/Haji and more – reviews

The BBC’s new cop hit brings brilliantly flawed humanity to familiar tropes, and Paul Rudd is literally at war with himself on Netflix

Living With Yourself review – are two Paul Rudds better than one?

Rudd is doubly charming in this cloning comedy-drama on Netflix, which riffs on identity, self-sabotage and the lives we wish we were leading

El Camino: is the Breaking Bad movie worth the wait? Discuss with spoilers

The long-awaited return of Jesse Pinkman has landed on Netflix, along with some other surprise characters …

Anna Quayle obituary

Multitalented actor best remembered as Baroness Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Mrs Fletcher review – Kathryn Hahn charms in thought-provoking comedy

A HBO series based on Tom Perrotta’s excellent novel about porn and consent offers up wit, intelligence and a remarkable central performance

Downton Abbey review – ridiculous, vanilla-flavoured fun

Imelda Staunton joins Maggie Smith and co in this standalone film that feels like an intensely glucose Christmas special

Cara Delevingne on her big TV breakthrough: ‘I don’t want an easy ride’

Her eyebrows launched 1,000 photoshoots but now the top model is making it big on screen – as an exiled faerie in a fantasy thriller opposite Orlando Bloom

The New Pope review – enter a seductively camp John Malkovich

Jude Law haunts Paolo Sorrentino’s glorious follow-up to The Young Pope, but Malkovich’s purring pontiff-in-waiting is divine