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From The Americans to The Handmaid’s Tale: what’s streaming in Australia in May

South Korean superheroes, Greta Gerwig dancing around New York, and rich teens on crime sprees are all coming to Australian streaming services

Lean on Pete director Andrew Haigh: ‘I’m quite scared of horses, actually’

Britain’s leading young director made his name laying bare the internal workings of romantic relationships. So what drew him to an intimate story about a boy and an old nag set in the wilds of Oregon?

Box set blockbusters: when movies make better TV shows

The second season of Dear White People belongs in a small crop of shows that have managed to improve on their big screen source material

No, Germaine Greer: women don’t want to watch gratuitous rapes on TV

Women might have fantasies about being tied up or spanked. But as a rule, we don’t fantasise about being buried alive or shot, says Jo Hemmings, a dating and relationship coach

‘It’s exhausting not being human’ – the weird world of Legion’s Aubrey Plaza

How do you play a gender-fluid psychotic figment of a mutant’s imagination? The star of the superhero psychodrama reveals all – and explains why her friends can’t watch it

Edie Falco: ‘I’ve never loved the work more, but I’m not cut out for the business’

The Emmy-winning star of The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie talks about her latest film, her response to the Louis CK allegations and her involvement in Cynthia Nixon’s campaign

From Empire to Corrie, TV shows are this season’s style inspiration

Cookie Lyon and Deirdre Barlow are two of the screen queens to watch for spring/summer 2018 fashion tips

Stub it out: Netflix criticised for too many smoking scenes

Anti-smoking group finds streaming giant’s shows feature twice as many cigarettes and ‘tobacco incidents’ as traditional TV channels

David Chase to make Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark

The Emmy-winning creator of the hit crime drama series will revive the franchise with a 60s-set film featuring some familiar characters

Allison Janney wins best supporting actress for I, Tonya at Oscars 2018

Janney wins her first Academy award, against competition from Laurie Metcalf and Lesley Manville, for her dark turn as Tonya Harding’s mother

Outdated thinking ‘is still holding female TV writers back’

Letter signed by 70 screenwriters argues that prestigious drama work is still overwhelmingly a male preserve

Get Out triumphs at Writers Guild of America awards

Jordan Peele’s smash-hit horror film and the gay coming-of-age movie Call Me By Your Name take top prizes at Oscars bellwether

My week as Bette Davis: ‘My fierce brows are begging to be raised’

I’m done with being a people-pleaser. What could I learn from whiskey-swigging, kick-ass broad Bette?

From Star Wars to Dunkirk: British film and TV breaks investment records

TV shows such as Game of Thrones and The Crown drove industry spending up 9% in 2017

Mosaic review – Steven Soderbergh’s mystery gamble almost pays off

Sharon Stone is a doomed author in an ambitious, mostly entertaining show viewers can watch conventionally or explore via an app

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ‘It’s not about heroes and villains’: the triumphant return of long-lost indie I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Should you send that midnight text? 11 essential rules for phone etiquette

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