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Olivia Colman: ‘Portraying a murderer? It was less pressure than playing the Queen’

From supporting parts on TV to Hollywood stardom to her darkest role yet: the Oscar winner reveals why even the toughest jobs can’t compare to her role in The Crown

David Chase: I was annoyed that fans wanted Tony Soprano dead

Series showrunner tells podcast that ambiguous ending rankled with viewers who wanted to see the character ‘face-down in linguini’

Tamzin Outhwaite: post your questions for the EastEnders, Bull and Masked Dancer star

We’ll put your questions to the actor known for Mel in EastEnders and the Scarecrow in The Masked Dancer, who is now in new movie Bull

Bergerac 2.0: Jersey detective’s return is a remake too far

With searches under way for the next Bond and a regenerated time lord, it’s time they gave us new heroes

Surprise pandemic hit and now talk of a new series, Sopranos is still the boss

With writer David Chase apparently in discussions with HBO Max, my inner Tony can’t help but wonder ‘whadayagunnado?’

Alec Baldwin profile: a versatile but troubled star

Tragic shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins happened on set of actor’s latest movie

Degrees of separation: what links The Many Saints of Newark to Hamilton?

The Sopranos, Nicole Holofcener, Matt Damon and a duel: join the dots to get up to speed on what everyone’s talking about this week

Guy Pearce: ‘There’s always someone you want to punch’

Neighbours launched him, and since then the star of Memento and Zone 414 has seized his Hollywood roles with a unique intensity. He talks about death, drugs, being a dad and divorce

The Many Saints of Newark review – Sopranos prequel keeps it in the family

Michael Gandolfini is goosebump-inducing as the young Tony Soprano, amid race riots and antagonism towards rival African American gangs

Rose Plays Julie review – identity quest goes to truly dark places

A student’s search for her birth mother has haunting results in this tale from the innovative Irish directing team of Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor

From United 93 to Worth: how Hollywood grappled with 9/11

In the two decades since the terror attack on New York City, films and TV shows have tried to revisit or reflect on a culturally traumatic event

‘I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase’ – how The Wire’s Omar changed TV

He was the terrifying stick-up man who loved his gran, shopped in his pyjamas and tenderly kissed his boyfriend. We remember Omar’s great scenes – and pay tribute to Michael K Williams, the actor who brought him to life

Michael K Williams obituary

American actor best known for playing Omar Little in the TV crime series The Wire

Jack O’Connell: ‘Eventually the wheels come off, everything explodes’

Actor Jack O’Connell is known for going to physical extremes to show the vulnerability of violent men. But what does masculinity really mean to him? Eva Wiseman finds out

‘We’re not robots’: Film-makers buckle under relentless appetite for Danish TV

A victim of its own success, the industry behind cult dramas such as The Killing struggles amid bullying claims

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  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange boxes have been gamified by fans
  • Cassette tapes were the voice notes of my youth, bringing tales from the diaspora to our living room
  • ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!
  • AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
  • ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
  • From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup
  • Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’
  • ‘It’s not about heroes and villains’: the triumphant return of long-lost indie I Shot Andy Warhol
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