The Essex Serpent review – Claire Danes is magnificent … unlike Tom Hiddleston
The Loki actor feels too suave to play a humble vicar in this adaptation of Sarah Parry’s lush novel – which makes the central romance cold and condescending
Eternal death and Adolf Hitler: an ode to Life After Life, the year’s most underrated TV show
The BBC’s thoughtful, beautifully told drama about continual rebirth isn’t always easy viewing, but it’s a complex, clever paean to human potential
Why the Godfather making-of series The Offer has a nostalgia problem
While the veneration of man-made Hollywood myths continue, stories about women at the time remain frustratingly rare
Tom Hiddleston’s year in TV: ‘I hope Loki coming out as bisexual was meaningful to people who spotted it’
The Marvel star on his new TV spin-off, Loki, growing up watching Blackadder, and the need to ration your news intake
‘I made a lot of mistakes’: Jon Bernthal on machismo, his violent past and playing a corrupt cop in We Own This City
For his role in the hotly anticipated new drama from the creators of The Wire, Bernthal embedded himself in the Baltimore police force. He talks about his own brushes with the law, advice from Brad Pitt and how acting saved his life
The Offer review – the making of The Godfather makes for hit-and-miss TV
The splashy inside Hollywood drama on the making of The Godfather is a patchy, overlong series that is best when it sticks to the script
Dan Stevens: ‘People thought I was crazy’
This was the response when the actor famously left Downton Abbey at its height, fearful of being typecast as a floppy-haired aristo. Now based in LA, he’s starring in everything from comedy and horror to a new series about Watergate
Sienna Miller on taking on the tabloids: ‘It was so toxic – what women were subjected to’
After a bruising battle to expose the red tops’ dirty tricks, the actor reveals the price she paid
That Anatomy of a Scandal scene: is this the silliest TV moment ever?
A jaw-dropping reveal in Netflix’s twisty new courtroom thriller has become talked about for all the wrong reasons
What links Paul Verhoeven’s convent romp to the Sopranos?
From Benedetta to Showgirls – via Christopher Walken in A View to a Kill – we shimmy down the rabbit hole with the controversial film-maker
Hot stuff: The Full Monty to return as TV series after 25 years
Robert Carlyle and co begin filming today on Disney+ follow-up to the Bafta-winning hit film
Aaron Sorkin: ‘Screenwriters write about people who are cooler than we are’
The American writer known for The West Wing, Moneyball and The Social Network on adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage in the 21st century
The Ipcress File review – a working-class hero takes on the might of Russia
ITV’s reboot of Len Deighton’s cold war spy thriller has Joe Cole as Harry Palmer sorting out the mess left by public school boys. Sound familiar?
How could anybody dream of turning the brilliant A Little Life into another Sex and the City?
Hanya Yanagihara has written a screen adaptation of her acclaimed novel and the studios are not interested. But done right, it could be the ultimate box set, writes Zoe Williams
From Six Feet Under to Manchester By the Sea: culture to help understand grief
From art that burns the sky to the music that heals, our critics reminisce over popular culture to deal with death