Hollywood and TV put the squeeze on UK’s low-budget film-makers
Small productions struggle to hit the big screen due to fashion for mega-budget TV dramas and risk-averse US studios focusing on superhero blockbusters
Robin Wright: ‘Trump – he took all House of Cards’ good ideas!’
As the steely First Lady in House of Cards and now a fearsome warrior in Wonder Woman, Robin Wright is having the time of her life playing powerful, ruthless women. She tells Alex Clark where it all went so right
Kaya Scodelario: ‘Nine times out of 10, my character is with a guy twice my age’
She’s gone from teenage tearaway in TV’s Skins to working with Johnny Depp in the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film – but, she says, filming wasn’t all swashbuckling fun and games• Plus: Rebecca Nicholson looks at what other Skins alumni have gone on to do
40 years of Star Wars – why the blockbuster saga is the greatest soap opera in the galaxy
With an evil father, a love triangle and a servant class, the George Lucas universe is full of melodramatic tropes – and there’s no sign that the storylines are running out
Charlotte Riley: ‘My family all howled about a woman from Teesside playing Kate Middleton’
The actor on her new royal role, juggling childcare and work, and her husband Tom Hardy’s dog fixation
Johnny Harris on Jawbone: ‘The film was always going to be about boxing and addiction’
Having made his name playing menacing monsters in This is England and London to Brighton, the actor has written a raw drama starring Ray Winstone and Ian McShane, inspired by his earlier life
Friends reunited: what a cast reunion photo really says
From The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to Friends, a body language expert wades in on what TV show reunion snaps can truly reveal
Novelist Chris Kraus: ‘Who hasn’t had an affair?’
The film-maker and I Love Dick author on gender, humour, fact and fiction
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