‘You wouldn’t pick us out as mother and daughter!’: Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter on acting together for the first time

Bridgerton star Bessie – soon to play Nancy Mitford in a new TV drama – and her mum, acting royalty Imelda, talk Sondheim, sandwiches and taking the stage together in Shaw’s sex worker scandal Mrs Warren’s Profession

Julio Torres: ‘When I worked at SNL, I thought Shawn Mendes was an intern’

The comedian and absurdist on his favourite letters and colours and least favourite shapes

There’s a place for audience participation, but ‘chicken jockey’ chaos takes it too far

Barrages of popcorn and even live poultry are featuring at screenings of A Minecraft Movie

Holy Cow review – unlikely French teen cheesemaker drama with a big heart

A largely nonprofessional cast shine in Louise Courvoisier’s gritty rural tale that feels satisfyingly real

Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94

Prolific Canadian director also made one of the country’s first internationally successful films, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, starring Richard Dreyfuss

‘I had a recurring dream that Bin Laden was in my kitchen’: Ramy Youssef on his 9/11 comedy

The standup’s new animated series #1 Happy Family USA mixes South Park-style humour with a bracing account of Muslim life in America in the wake of the September 11 attacks. It feels like history is repeating itself, he says

Epic win: why the Odyssey is having a moment

With new translations, a film starring Ralph Fiennes and a Christopher Nolan blockbuster on the way, Homer’s saga about a soldier’s return from battle speaks to our times in unexpected ways

Streaming: The Last Showgirl and the best Las Vegas films

Gia Coppola’s drama starring Pamela Anderson peers behind the glamour of ‘the fun capital of the world’, but sin city has long seduced film-makers…

Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story to Twisters: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A sobering feature-length documentary chronicles the life of the singer, actor and activist’s life, plus an action-stuffed remake of a beloved 90s classic

From The Return to The Last of Us: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite for an ancient Greek yarn, while the dystopian video game adaptation powers up for a second series

Almost a third of UK independent cinemas say they are at risk

Exclusive: Survey by the Independent Cinema Office shows urgent need for capital investment in sector

‘There was always a male gaze behind it’: Madrid exhibition rewrites cliches of Latina artists

Show looks beyond tropes of exoticism, hyper-sexuality and diva behaviour to how stars gained control of their own image

Tom Hunsinger obituary

Other lives: Actor with the Cherub theatre company who co-wrote and co-directed three films and taught at Rada

Bella Thorne accuses Mickey Rourke of bruising her genitals on movie set

Actor claims working with Oscar nominee on set of thriller Girl is ‘one of the all time worst experiences’ of her life

‘I’ll tackle Rox if he tries to go to Egypt’: Richard Roxburgh, Peter Greste and 400 days in a Cairo prison

Greste’s harrowing experience of the Egyptian legal system is brought to the screen in The Correspondent, which takes its audience far beyond the familiar nightly news bulletins of 2014