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No more romcoms for me, says ‘older and uglier’ Hugh Grant

Actor has taken his first TV role in years and says there is now less snobbery about the medium

Wednesday’s best TV: Vive La Révolution!; Inside the SS

Joan Bakewell reminisces about the French revolution that nearly was in 1968, while a new series interviews members of Hitler’s notorious paramilitary group

The future isn’t female enough: the problematic feminism of The Handmaid’s Tale

The second season of the award-winning drama is being criticized as ‘torture porn’ and is less interested in men as aggressors than on women’s role in upholding the patriarchy

From The Americans to The Handmaid’s Tale: what’s streaming in Australia in May

South Korean superheroes, Greta Gerwig dancing around New York, and rich teens on crime sprees are all coming to Australian streaming services

Lean on Pete director Andrew Haigh: ‘I’m quite scared of horses, actually’

Britain’s leading young director made his name laying bare the internal workings of romantic relationships. So what drew him to an intimate story about a boy and an old nag set in the wilds of Oregon?

Box set blockbusters: when movies make better TV shows

The second season of Dear White People belongs in a small crop of shows that have managed to improve on their big screen source material

No, Germaine Greer: women don’t want to watch gratuitous rapes on TV

Women might have fantasies about being tied up or spanked. But as a rule, we don’t fantasise about being buried alive or shot, says Jo Hemmings, a dating and relationship coach

‘It’s exhausting not being human’ – the weird world of Legion’s Aubrey Plaza

How do you play a gender-fluid psychotic figment of a mutant’s imagination? The star of the superhero psychodrama reveals all – and explains why her friends can’t watch it

Edie Falco: ‘I’ve never loved the work more, but I’m not cut out for the business’

The Emmy-winning star of The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie talks about her latest film, her response to the Louis CK allegations and her involvement in Cynthia Nixon’s campaign

From Empire to Corrie, TV shows are this season’s style inspiration

Cookie Lyon and Deirdre Barlow are two of the screen queens to watch for spring/summer 2018 fashion tips

Stub it out: Netflix criticised for too many smoking scenes

Anti-smoking group finds streaming giant’s shows feature twice as many cigarettes and ‘tobacco incidents’ as traditional TV channels

David Chase to make Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark

The Emmy-winning creator of the hit crime drama series will revive the franchise with a 60s-set film featuring some familiar characters

Allison Janney wins best supporting actress for I, Tonya at Oscars 2018

Janney wins her first Academy award, against competition from Laurie Metcalf and Lesley Manville, for her dark turn as Tonya Harding’s mother

Outdated thinking ‘is still holding female TV writers back’

Letter signed by 70 screenwriters argues that prestigious drama work is still overwhelmingly a male preserve

Get Out triumphs at Writers Guild of America awards

Jordan Peele’s smash-hit horror film and the gay coming-of-age movie Call Me By Your Name take top prizes at Oscars bellwether

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