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
Portrait of ‘real’ Mr Darcy unlikely to set 21st century hearts aflutter
Experts believe Jane Austen’s ideal Darcy would bear little comparison to the one played by Colin Firth in BBC’s 1995 series
From The Americans to Drunk History: the best film and TV streaming in Australia this month
Eccentric artists, lethal weapons and drunk histories: we’ve scoured the local streaming services and picked out the best offerings
Barbara Hale obituary
Actor best known for her role in the US television legal drama Perry Mason
On my radar: Pankaj Mishra’s cultural highlights
The writer on Riz Ahmed in The Night Of, his favourite cafe, the insights of William Empson and extraordinary Indian bharatanatyam dancing
From Westworld to Homeland: pop culture’s obsession with gaslighting
Why have stories about men mind-controlling women come to define much of modern pop culture?