Armando Iannucci: “We demand politicians be word-perfect every time they do an interview.” Photograph: Tim P Whitby/Getty Images

Where do you go after satirising Westminster and the American vice-presidency? What more dials are there to twist? The incomparable Armando Iannucci, (...)

Chadwick Boseman in Marshall

No button is left unpushed in this study of an incident from the early career of the first African-American appointed to the US supreme court. Those b(...)

Is the voiceover a case of panda-ing to the American market?

One of the most resonant TV moments of 2016 is now on the big screen. I want to tell you that it’s Candice winning Great British Bake Off, but that wo(...)

Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor in The Death of Stalin

Is there anything so squishy as a philosophy to Armando Iannucci’s view of the administrative life? Only in the most oblique sense. In comedies such (...)

The whole kerfuffle started when a new episode of Rick and Morty made reference to a Szechuan sauce promotion by McDonald’s in 1998 to promote the Disney film Mulan. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters

Don’t read this column. Don’t entertain corporate monsters when they attempt to trick you into talking about their products. One of their more evil st(...)

Rebecca Ferguson: born and raised in Stockholm, she counts as Swedish but has an English mother of Northern Irish descent. Photograph: Vera Anderson/WireImage/Getty

A glance at the cast list for The Snowman, Tomas Alfredson’s thumping adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s crime novel, confirms that the new age of the internati(...)

Cold comfort folk horror: The Ritual, on general release

IT’S NOT YET DARK ★★★★ Directed by Frankie Fenton. Featuring Simon Fitzmaurice, Ruth Fitzmaurice, Colin Farrell. PG cert, limited release, 80 min (...)

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There’s nothing much wrong with Tomas Alfredson’s classy adaptation of an admired detective novel from the Norwegian author Jo Nesbø. Michael Fassbend(...)

Loving Vincent: Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth) wears the yellow jacket immortalised by Van Gogh

To paraphrase Dr Johnson on that dog walking on his hind legs, I’m not sure this is worth doing, but it is remarkable that it is done at all. Dorota K(...)