My week as Bette Davis: ‘My fierce brows are begging to be raised’
I’m done with being a people-pleaser. What could I learn from whiskey-swigging, kick-ass broad Bette?
From Star Wars to Dunkirk: British film and TV breaks investment records
TV shows such as Game of Thrones and The Crown drove industry spending up 9% in 2017
Mosaic review – Steven Soderbergh’s mystery gamble almost pays off
Sharon Stone is a doomed author in an ambitious, mostly entertaining show viewers can watch conventionally or explore via an app
Alison Brie: ‘When Spielberg called it was the craziest half an hour of my life’
Her big break came as Trudy in Mad Men where she was ‘silent and professional’. Then it was ‘fart jokes’ in Community and wrestling in Glow. But none of that prepared Alison Brie for a call from Spielberg and a film role opposite Meryl Streep. Eve Barlow meets her
McMafia may use real Russians – but cod accents are still the norm on TV
The creators of the new BBC One thriller cast Russian actors to ensure authenticity – but screen history is still littered with bad accents
James Norton ‘got death threats’ after playing Happy Valley baddie
Actor, starring in BBC crime drama McMafia, says threats would be nothing new after playing Tommy Lee Royce
The 50 best TV shows of 2017: No 3 Twin Peaks: The Return
Weird and weirdly wonderful, David Lynch’s maximalist reboot was smarter, funnier, stranger and more perplexing that anything else on TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2017: No 5 Big Little Lies
The cleverly plotted tale of murder and yummy mummies brought a masterly twist on soapy US drama and a career-best performance from Nicole Kidman
The 50 best TV shows of 2017: No 7 The Deuce
David Simon’s drama about the birth of porn in 1970s New York is a clever tale of sex, commerce and the price of power
Big Little Lies season two confirmed with Andrea Arnold directing
Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman to return as stars of the Emmy-winning HBO mystery, with the British director of American Honey at the helm
Daisy Ridley is right to quit social media. Actors should be seen and not followed
For actors there are no downsides to leaving Instagram and the like. A star should radiate mystique, not false bonhomie and complaints about queues for the toilet, writes film critic Ryan Gilbey
She’s Gotta Have It review – an exhilarating examination of our attitudes to sex and race
Spike Lee’s movie about an unashamedly polyamorous woman has been adapted into a Netflix 10-parter, taking in gentrification and everyday sexual harassment
Apple announces drama series starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston
The tech giant has given a two-season order to an untitled drama about the lives of people working on morning television as well as a show from Steven Spielberg
Naomi Campbell: ‘People try to use your past to blackmail you. I won’t allow it’
Late and distracted by her phone, the model soon transforms from hauteur to warmth. She discusses racism, Vogue, stereotypes of black women and how, at 47, she’s finally become comfortable in her own skin
Kevin Spacey: British police investigate sexual assault claims
Officers look into allegations man was assaulted in London in 2008, while Spacey was working in the UK capital