Alvin Rakoff obituary
Stage and film director who contributed to the success of the single play on television
Ice-T: ‘Anybody that thinks controversy is a way to make money, it’s not. You need lawyers!’
With a new Body Count album out next month, the hip-hop superstar turned actor answers your questions on Law & Order, the Cop Killer furore and working with ‘wild man’ Abel Ferrara
Challengers, Carrie and an Aussie spin on The Office: what’s new to streaming in Australia in October
Plus an excellent queer romance, a new comedy produced by Armando Iannucci and a Netflix drama set to become ‘Succession in the outback’
Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall
Cate Blanchett says there is a ‘distinct lack of shame’ in modern society
Actor says ‘we all have dark sides’ and criticises ‘public shaming’ before premiere of Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer
Actor Rakie Ayola: ‘Amazing things have happened this side of 40’
The star of stage and screen on playing Persephone in Netflix’s bold take on Greek mythology, going viral and being uncool about awards
Reggie Yates looks back: ‘I went from a council estate to working with the people I watched on TV’
The actor and broadcaster on how his mum kept him grounded, an awkward encounter with Sting, and why making documentaries changed him
Love Lies Bleeding, Brats and Lady in the Lake: what’s new to streaming in Australia in July
Plus Anthony Bourdain’s long-running series, a black comedy set during the bubonic plague and the latest from the makers of You Can’t Ask That
‘It’s great!’ Rafe Spall on having a baby with his co-star in Trying, the infertility sitcom
In the hit TV series, Spall and Esther Smith play a couple who have endured the pain of infertility. And now it turns out they’re having a real-life baby together. The proud dad-to-be reveals all
TV tonight: the first family in the world to be diagnosed with hereditary Alzheimer’s
A documentary charts a profound moment in the understanding of Alzheimer’s. Plus: more twists in the case of disgraced millionaire Robert Durst. Here’s what to watch this evening
‘Gissa job!’ How Bernard Hill created one of TV’s most tragic and unforgettable characters
Playing unhinged head-butting Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff made Hill a legend. But, from Titanic to The Lord of the Rings, his entire 50-year career was outstanding
The Sympathizer, Ripley and Scoop: what’s new to streaming in Australia in April
Plus post-apocalyptic drama Fallout, season two of Heartbreak High and Ra Chapman’s moreish comedy White Fever
Trevor Griffiths: Mancunian Marxist whose political plays deserve revival
Griffiths, who has died aged 88, explored the conflict between reform and revolution in plays and scripts from the film Reds to dramas such as Occupations, The Party and Comedians
The Zone of Interest review – Jonathan Glazer’s unforgettable Auschwitz drama is a brutal masterpiece
Only the constant pall of smoke, and a dread-inducing soundscape, tell of the horrors beyond the wall as the idyllic life of the commandant of the death camp and his family rolls by in Glazer’s Oscar-nominated film
American Fiction, Three Women and Curb: what’s new to streaming in Australia in February
Plus Terence Malick’s 2011 epic, a moving Ukrainian series, and rapper Vince Staples’ autofictional caper