How Jason Isaacs became the latest White Lotus star to have a renaissance
The Harry Potter and Death of Stalin actor has found fame with a new audience in hit TV show
Streaming: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the best older women age-gap movies
The recent Bridget Jones sequel, a big hit at the UK box office, celebrates the romance between its middle-aged star and her gen-Z lover, but from Babygirl to The Mother, how do women on screen with younger partners usually fare?
‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and getting cancer
After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate number of them black. Now, in a bid to save lives, he is speaking out about his own diagnosis, alongside the doctors who successfully treated him
From A Minecraft Movie to Black Mirror: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Jason Momoa and Jack Black get building in the video game spinoff, while Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology goes onboard the USS Callister again
Doge eyes cuts to Peace Corps with in-person visit and records access
Agency that sends volunteers to countries around world expects ‘additional visits’ from Musk cost-cutting team
Trump extends deadline for TikTok sale to non-Chinese buyer to avoid ban
Deadline set by US president was supposed to be Saturday, with Trump now considering decreasing tariffs to get deal
Clive Revill obituary
Superb stage actor who lent power to British TV productions of the 1970s and made a string of enjoyable movies
Piers Morgan plans to expand his Uncensored YouTube channel
Broadcaster wants to branch out with shows covering crime, history and sport and says he has investors lined up
‘An intellectual stuck in a Batman suit’: readers remember the genius of Val Kilmer
Guardian readers recall encounters with a brilliant actor who was also kind, generous and much more than a heart-throb
‘I just want to hang out with other nerds’: how TV’s water-cooler moments found a new home online
From hyper-intelligent analysis to heated arguments, the 21st-century home of buzzy chatter about big television shows is Reddit. We go behind the scenes to hear about millions of Severance and White Lotus fans, wild freebies – and accusations of racism
Australia’s social media ban is attracting global praise – but we’re no closer to knowing how it would work
A trial is under way but the government faces many hurdles – including whether Trump-emboldened tech companies will comply
The film fans who remade Jurassic Park: how an Australian town got behind a $3,000 ‘mockbuster’
Jurassic Park: Castlemaine Redux is a shot-for-shot labour of love made with amateur actors, beanbag dinosaurs and an army of volunteers. Three years later it is finished – and ‘bigger than Ben-Hur’
US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions
California cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon transferred to consolidate with New York suits from John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen and more
Raspberry scented weirdness: will Elio be Pixar’s wildest ride to date?
The Inside Out studio’s latest, long-awaited project is a neon-drenched star-straddling adventure featuring an orphan, a tardigrade and a wannabe astronaut
Clickbait titles and cliffhangers: the mini TV serials capturing phone audiences
‘Vertical dramas’ consisting of minute-long episodes are booming, with market predicted to be worth $14bn by 2027