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How adult animation grew up
Grown-up cartoons have come a long way since the toilet humour of ‘Beavis & Butthead’ and ‘Family Guy’. In fact, they’re getting serious. Annabel Nugent surveys the ‘Rick and Morty’ effect, from ‘Midnight Gospel’ to ‘Crossing Swords’
Ben Mendelsohn: ‘I’ll be thrilled if I end up like Harry Dean Stanton’
The star of Animal Kingdom and Bloodline talks to Laura Barton about character acting, why his new film is ‘beautiful’, not remembering his nights out with Kylie, and his love of Melvyn Bragg
Timothy Dalton: ‘Why do we need to offer people gratuitous sex?’
The former 007 is still going strong on television, most recently in superhero series ‘Doom Patrol’. Now 74, he talks to Helen Brown about his secret past, steamy scenes and why we need to preserve our innocence
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The 40 best films of the decade
After a decade of films that unearthed truths, reflected our ugliest instincts and put adorable bears in jail, Clarisse Loughrey, Geoffrey Macnab and Adam White have curated the definitive rundown of the best of the 2010s
The 50 best albums of the decade
After much fervent and impassioned debate, critics Alexandra Pollard, Roisin O'Connor, Jazz Monroe, Helen Brown and Patrick Smith pick their favourites from a decade of disparate and daring records
The 30 best TV shows of the decade
After 10 years of big-budget drama, reality TV revivals and the rise of streaming, Ed Cumming and Fiona Sturges have curated the definitive rundown of the best of the 2010s