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Self-Made and The Banker showcase the power of black-owned businesses

The Netflix series and Apple TV movie tell true stories of entrepreneurship at odds with an ongoing Hollywood narrative of black tragedy

Candace Bushnell: ‘It seems like every generation has to relearn feminism’

Sex and the City author has written her first ‘overtly feminist’ novel which details her own experiences of inappropriate male behaviour

Emerald Fennell: the wickedly funny screen princess of darkness

After Call the Midwife and Killing Eve, the Londoner has turned director with her own tale of violent female revenge

Filming of BBC’s Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty postponed

Decision about popular shows comes as TV production grinds to halt amid coronavirus crisis

‘It’s not just “we’ll watch them having sex”’: Trigonometry’s Ariane Labed on the polyamory drama

The French actor is best known for her work in arthouse films such as Attenberg and The Lobster. So what attracted her to a British TV drama about a three-way relationship?

Alison Brie: ‘The effects of trauma spider-webbed through the whole family’

Even as a young girl, Alison Brie knew how to entertain a crowd. Now, the star of Mad Men and Glow is tackling the heartbreak of her grandmother’s struggles with mental illness

From war carnage to Greek idyll: the 1917 team take on The Magus

Flushed with awards success, Sam Mendes and his partners at Neal Street Productions reveal their latest film, TV and theatre projects

Brian Blessed: ‘All my life, 90% of men have bored the arse off me’

Dressed in pyjamas and wellies, the great actor talks about his astronaut training in Russia, the original Cats – and putting his might behind his daughter Rosalind’s very personal plays

Gavin & Stacey, Doctor Who, Dracula: your ultimate guide to Christmas TV

TV quizzes, sitcom specials and an audience with Kylie - plus Adam reunites with Joe for a festive podcast and 007 heads over to a Highlands pile

The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 3 – Chernobyl

This tale of the 1986 Soviet nuclear meltdown combined disaster movie and conspiracy thriller into a near-perfect example of TV making

Douglas Hodge: ‘I almost had to head-butt Harold Pinter’

He’s the musicals maestro who’s now starring in everything from Joker to Gemini Man. He reveals how he went from working men’s clubs to Hollywood – via a Pinteresque spell in theatre

For All Mankind review – Apple’s solid alt-space saga avoids crash landing

A splashy new series imagines what would have happened if Russia had won the space race with decent, if rarely compelling, results

Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash?

They’ve conquered the box office. Now it’s payback time. As they are attacked by film-makers like Martin Scorsese, are TV and movie superheroes fighting a losing battle against reality?

The week in TV: Dublin Murders; Living With Yourself; Giri/Haji and more – reviews

The BBC’s new cop hit brings brilliantly flawed humanity to familiar tropes, and Paul Rudd is literally at war with himself on Netflix

‘Golden age of TV’ gives boost to music industry

Proliferation of hit TV has led fans to stream soundtracks of their favourite Netflix and Amazon Prime shows

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  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • The Guardian view on the analogue resurgence: the shock of the old
  • Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London
  • Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
  • SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange booths 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

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