Picnic at Hanging Rock review – as mysterious as the film, but bigger in every way

This ‘small-screen’ adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s novel shares the dreamy, eerie quality of the 1975 movie, but it has been fleshed out with intriguing backstories

Joe Cole: ‘I was ready to deliver a kicking’

From Skins to Peaky Blinders, actor Joe Cole has made his name playing rogues. But nothing prepared him for the full-on physicality of his latest film

From Practical Magic to F*!#ing Adelaide: what’s streaming in Australia in July

Nicole Kidman’s witchy romcom, ABC’s suburban dramedy and Stanley Kubrick’s icy horror are coming to your screens

‘There was a lot of panic’ – behind the first movies to tackle the Aids crisis

Before Philadelphia won two Oscars, a set of smaller films dealt with the pandemic and those involved talk about the battles they faced getting their stories on screen

Alison Steadman: ‘As you get older, learning lines gets harder’

The actor on doing puzzles in bed, her Liverpool roots and watching wildlife

A Very English Scandal finale review – leaves you reeling, seething and laughing

Fabulous performances all round as Jeremy Thorpe finally comes to trial in a sea of hypocrisy, prejudice, ghastly snobbery, injustice and a chorus of tittering from the public gallery

Thandie Newton: ‘Being the first dark-skinned woman in Star Wars is great… and awful’

With roles in Westworld and Solo: A Star Wars Story, the actor is at the top of her game. From navigating the industry as a black British woman, to ‘brainwashing’ - the journey there wasn’t always easy

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