Maxine Peake: ‘I’m a Corbyn supporter. We need a coup’
She used to be told she was too fat, too northern, too political. Decades into a stellar career, Maxine Peake is on fighting form
Can Seth Rogen’s Invincible break Marvel and DC’s superhero stranglehold?
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are to adapt Robert Kirkman’s Invincible series for the big screen. Could this be the shakeup the comic-book adaptation needs?
Ian McShane on reviving Lovejoy and becoming the saviour of America
As the king of the mullet returns as one of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, he shares his idea for a Lovejoy comeback, forgets the names of his own films – and reveals all about his bizarre new portrayal of Dr Dre
Lena Dunham: ‘As a woman in Hollywood, you just can’t win’
The Girls creator and controversy magnet on the Hollywood casting couch, Fleabag and Trump – and why it’s time to say goodbye to her generation-defining show
Why I love… actor Daniel Kaluuya
I like his smooth, dark brown complexion that glistens in all lights; his smile, which can flash from sardonic to warm; those soulful, expressive eyes
Michael Tuchner obituary
TV and film director who won a Bafta award for the BBC play Bar Mitzvah Boy
Sordid plots and straight bananas: Brussels becomes a hotbed of love and revenge
If Brussels makes you think of vacuum cleaner regulations, think again. A new drama casts it as a hotbed of passion and back-stabbing. As the EU turns 60, we look at its place in popular culture
Lars Eidinger: ‘The Nazis cramp us Germans up. But Brits have a Third Reich fascination’
The great German stage actor is thrilling new audiences with SS-GB and Personal Shopper. Our writer talks menace and murder with him over schnitzel in Berlin
Alan Cumming: ‘A lot of young gay guys are like, who cares about the Aids crisis?’
The star of new gay drama After Louie talks about the generation gap – and why the set of The Good Wife wasn’t as bad as it sounded
Tony Haygarth obituary
Distinctive supporting actor on television, stage and film
From When We Rise to Big Little Lies: the best of film and TV streaming in Australia in March
David Bowie cult classics, Korean arthouse thrillers, and Aussie soap opera favourites, here’s what’s coming to streaming services in Australia this month
Mahershala Ali wins best supporting actor Oscar for Moonlight
The actor wins Academy Award for his role in Barry Jenkins-directed study of gay black man’s coming of age
Unusual suspects: TV’s new criminal women
Hot on the heels of Apple Tree Yard come The Replacement and Big Little Lies, featuring murderous school gate mothers and sinister maternity covers
‘No one’s faced it down’: Arinzé Kene on tackling the UK riots in Good Dog
He’s played Sam Cooke, an EastEnders bad boy and a closeted footballer in The Pass. Now, Arinzé Kene has returned to writing plays – and to the violent summer of 2011 – with a searing account of escalating tension in London