Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, Paramount+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in September
Your guide to streaming, including The Grand Tour, Slow Horses, Mobland and Brothers
Kristin Scott Thomas
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Playwright Conor McPherson: ‘You’re better off getting hammered than a three-star review’
The playwright on his new production of The Brightening Air, developing ‘scar tissue’ from criticism, and the thing great actors have
Slow Horses review: Dour, dumpy and depressed, is this the broken Britain of spy dramas?
Television: It says a lot about Britain that it’s now represented by wisecracking underdogs rather than a mercurial womaniser such as James Bond
We’re told the menopause is now mainstream in culture, but is it really? And does it need to be?
Channel 4 comedy series and Women’s Prize shortlisted novel sit just beyond the mainstream, and maybe that’s okay
Lily James: ‘I think I’m too submissive’
The star of the new version of Rebecca talks getting spooked on set, Covid bubbles and co-stars
Netflix’s Rebecca: The new Mrs de Winter isn’t a patch on the first one
Review: The film is so lathered in superficial gloss the subtexts struggle to breathe
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in October
Highlights include Rebecca, Emily in Paris, The Trial of the Chicago 7, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Military Wives: Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan play delightfully off one another
Review: Horgan sounds slightly too posh for her character – otherwise this is pretty good
Elton John: ‘George Michael was too stubborn to get sober’
Elton answers questions from celeb fans Victoria Beckham, Billie Eilish, Bob Dylan and more
Emmy nominations 2019: Fiona Shaw and Chris O’Dowd among nominees
Irish actors up for three awards, as Game of Thrones breaks records with 32 nominations
No more Fleabag: There will not be a third series
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s BBC hit bows out after two runs with ‘beautiful, perfect ending’
Film-maker Pawel Pawlikowski’s deft touch to the fore in ‘Cold War’
The Polish auteur’s latest movie is of a stripe that enamours almost all who see it
Tomb Raider: Stand upwind. It’s the first stinker of 2018
Review: Delicate, non-English-sounding Alicia Vikander is wildly miscast as Lara Croft
Cillian Murphy as a ‘handsome banker’ in a toe-curling misfire
The Party review: The film is barely over an hour long, but shortness is the least if its problems
Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘He kept asking my wife to have sex with him”
Nicolas Winding Refn’s feud with fellow Danish director Lars Von Trier shows no sign of letting up. “It is natural for youth to destroy the old”, he says
At lunch with Jeremy Clarkson
The famous petrolhead shares pecorino with Jeremy Paxman to discuss cars, cigarettes and Kristin Scott Thomas
Slow West: ‘The Brits secretly all want to make westerns’
Interview: John Maclean, once of the Beta Band, set out to demythologise the western in his first film, Slow West. He’s succeeded
François Ozon: the new new wave
Satirical wit, freewheeling sexuality and a new wave cinematic sensibility? François Ozon, director of ‘Sitcom’, ‘Swimming Pool’ and, now, ‘The New Girlfriend’, is a most French film-maker, and despite Hollywood overtures he refuses to change his style
Lia Williams: ‘She’s funny, she’s complex, she’s fragile and strong. She’s all of woman, really’
Lia Williams tackled her role in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by researching Tennessee Williams – ‘because he is Blanche’
Cheer up, you’re in Cannes
This year’s films have a lot of things going for them, but a cheery view of humanity is not one of them. Just look at Only God Forgives, A Touch of Sin, Inside Llewyn Davis . . .
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices