Kevin Spacey answers your questions – as it happened
The Oscar-winning actor, House of Cards star and artistic director of London's Old Vic was online to answer your questions
Happy Valley is violent. So is real life
Dreda Say Mitchell: Criticism of the TV crime drama's shocking scenes is understandable, but violent art has long been a popular form
Jessica Chastain ‘offered True Detective role’
Zero Dark Thirty star the latest A-lister to be pegged for role in season two of Nic Pizzolatto's moody HBO crime drama
DVDs and downloads: The Wolf of Wall Street, Orange is the New Black and more
Guy Lodge reviews Martin Scorsese's surprise box-office hit, Jenji Kohan's Netflix drama and the rest of the week's big releases
After Bob Hoskins, it’s curtains for working-class actors these days
Barbara Ellen: Bob Hoskins had a rich and varied career that would not happen now as upper-class men get all the good parts
On my radar: Mary Lynn Rajskub’s cultural highlights
The star of TV's 24 on the appeal of escapism, being won over by The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and how Martin Creed made her son's day. By Sarah Hughes
24 comes to London as tax break lures big-budget television shows to Britain
Money injected into the UK economy by big-budget television shows is almost outstripping films after introduction of tax relief
Bob Hoskins: we should remember him for his TV work too
Mark Lawson: From the adult literacy series On the Move, through to classy literary adaptations, via the odd dodgy geezer or two, the late actor's small-screen career shares the qualities of his best film work
Would squeaky clean detective fiction be too true to be good?
Liz Williams: A chief constable says fictional detectives should be better behaved and less corrupt. It's a fair cop, guv
Fargo TV review: ‘What could have been a disaster is a respectful homage’
Sam Wollaston: Watching the TV take on the Coen brothers' 1996 movie is like revisiting an old funfair: all the happy memories come flooding back
Edna Doré obituary
Television, stage and film actor best known for her role as Mo Butcher in the BBC's EastEnders
Smell the vinyl: six of the best fictional record shops
In the runup to Record Store Day 2014, Michael Hogan names some of the finest fictional pop purveyors
Guy Lodge’s DVDs and downloads
A plucky princess makes Disney cool, but Carrie is reborn bloodless, writes Guy Lodge
On my radar: Jon Robin Baitz’s cultural highlights
The American playwright and screenwriter talks to Leah Harper about True Detective, David Hockney and langoustines at the River Cafe
On the trail of a con man
Richard John Taylor had no problem attracting investors to his films. After all, he was a senior editor on EastEnders, ran a production company with Louis Theroux and had a lucrative deal with ITV. There was only one problem… Simon Hattenstone reports