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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Outdated thinking ‘is still holding female TV writers back’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

Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I’m not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’

The Get Out and Black Panther star on why he doesn’t like race debates - and what his mum makes of his American accent

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

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