From Materialists to Adam Kay: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Celine Song follows up her acclaimed film Past Lives with another romantic entanglement, while the doctor turned standup tours a new book and comic set
From cosmopolitans to vibrators, the cultural heft of Sex and the City
Just some of the ways that SATC helped to revolutionise the way we dress, eat, date, exercise and work
Frank Grimes obituary
Actor who had a long career on the London stage, mentored by Lindsay Anderson, and appeared in films and popular TV series
Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way
TV tonight: a heart-racing series following RNLI rescue missions
Storm Eunice causes havoc on the south coast. Plus: Ben Fogle meets a model who moved to the Botswana desert. Here’s what to watch this evening
‘I knew my job was to fulfil a man’s fantasy’: Elizabeth McGovern on Downton, early fame and co-starring with Brad Pitt
As the Downton Abbey finale hits the big screen, the actor looks back on the pitfalls of scoring huge success so young – and the liberation she later found singing in a band and writing a play about Ava Gardner
‘Trump is a horror story, isn’t he?’ Stephen King on villains, dark secrets and dreams
One of the world’s most successful authors answers readers’ questions on his sources of inspiration, the colour of fear, knowing when to quit – and why manual labour is invaluable for writers
Ray Brooks obituary
Star of Cathy Come Home and The Knack who later appeared in EastEnders and was the voice of Mr Benn
‘A kick in the head we all needed’: beloved satirist John Clarke celebrated in new film by his daughter
Lorin Clarke’s documentary But Also John Clarke examines the forces that created Fred Dagg – and the reinvention that came with his move from New Zealand to Australia
Yellowstone, Top Gun, Chalamet: what will the Paramount-Skydance merger mean for film and TV?
Controversial $8bn deal finalized this week and the future is set to look different for one of the biggest Hollywood studios
Freakier Friday to Ethel Cain: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
There’s more intergenerational larks in a sprightly body-swap sequel, and the Floridian dream-pop singer-songwriter is back with a new album of dark, skewed Americana
‘Alien is a warning, isn’t it?’: Essie Davis on Alien: Earth and Tasmania’s ecological crisis
The Babadook and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries star plays a corporate scientist pushing the limits of human survival in the new series Alien: Earth
Becoming Led Zeppelin to The Pickup: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
An extraordinary slice of rock history in documentary form – plus Eddie Murphy’s new goofball heist flick
Eight Postcards from Utopia review – found-footage fever dream of post-Ceauşescu Romania
Diverting mosaic of moments from 1990s TV ads, frantically flogging everything from sausages to laxatives, shows Romania’s newfound passion for capitalism
Catastrophe! Heroism! Paranoia! The dangerous romance of survivalist stories
Authors have been imagining societal collapse for decades – but could the reality be as dreadful as they think?