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The best chapter of the season so far, episode four blasts with intense interrogations, nerve-shredding action scenes, and nuanced characters. Spoilers ahead!

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Ali Tabrizi's new and controversial Netflix documentary Seaspiracy confronts many issues around commercial fishing, but some questions still linger

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The Amazon Prime series Them examines the dark, racist undergrowth in 50s American suburbia. Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Allison Pill star

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Josh O'Connor and Jessie Buckley play Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in this intimately filmed, National Theatre version of Romeo and Juliet

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Episode 3 kicks off with seething, frustrating suspense after Terry Boyle (Tommy Jessop) is brought back for questioning. Warning: spoilers ahead

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Duncan Macmillan's new theatrical production, set 16 years before Game of Thrones, takes place during The Great Tourney at Harrenhal: where many major characters gathered

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From Lady Gaga's breakthrough role in A Star Is Born to Idris Elba playing a modern-day rancher in Concrete Cowboy, Netflix in April glitters with big stars and great movies

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Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley and Benedict Cumberbatch star in Kevin Macdonald's difficult legal thriller, following the harrowing story of Mohamedou Slahi

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In episode 2, Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) and AC-12 dig deeper into DCI Joanne Davidson (Kelly Macdonald) and MIT. And some familiar faces return. Spoilers ahead!

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In the third and final series of this popular Welsh legal drama, Faith (Eve Myles) endures tricky divorce proceedings, truanting teenagers, and a big case involving a terminally ill child

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This Sussex-based spy thriller follows British Intelligence agent Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard) going undercover as a teacher in a Nazi finishing school run by Miss Rocholl (Judi Dench)

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Kelly Macdonald stars in the latest Line of Duty, which changes its atmosphere this time around. Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston and Vicky McClure also star

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Irvine Welsh co-writes this infectiously punky biopic of music manager Alan McGee, played by Ewen Bremner, who signed bands like Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Oasis

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This new international murder-mystery from Steve Yockey shows a newer, darker side to The Big Bang Theory actor Kaley Cuoco

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John Simm and Richie Campbell star in this new ITV detective drama, set in Brighton and written by Russell Lewis

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In this new French thriller, the music video director Franck (Sébastien Houbani) is assigned to make a video for the known gangster and aspiring rapper Tony (Abdramane Diakite)

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In Julie Taymor's new biopic, Alicia Vikander and Julianne Moore both portray feminist icon Gloria Steinem at different stages of her life. Bette Midler also stars

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Amy Poehler directs this feminist Gen-Z drama, set in a high school where sexism and toxicity are running rife. The introverted Vivian (Hadley Robinson) decides to act

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In this moralistic crime thriller, penned by Peter Moffat, Bryan Cranston stars as an esteemed judge who has to hide his son's devastating crime. Michael Stuhlbarg also stars

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Lee Daniels' biopic examines the last 10 years of Billie Holiday's life, as she endures addiction, abuse, and a conviction by the US government. Andra Day stars

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In Bloodlands, James Nesbitt stars as Northern Irish detective Tom Brannick, who tries to find his wife's killer after her assassin returns for the first time since the Troubles

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In To Olivia, Hugh Bonneville and Keeley Hawes star as Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal, who endure a devastating loss and try to move past it

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In this dark, satirical thriller, Rosamund Pike stars as a swindling guardian of elderly clients. But her schemes are foiled when she crosses a Russian mobster (Peter Dinklage)

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Simona Brown stars as Louise, a secretary and single mother who gets stuck in a dangerous love triangle between David (Tom Bateman) and Adele (Eve Hewson)

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The Culture Whisper team has picked its favourite comedies now available to stream. From Fleabag to Parks and Recreation, this hilarious selection will keep you smiling through lockdown

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From a teenager offering advice in Sex Education to a middle-aged couple reigniting their sex life in Wanderlust, here are the best sex comedies available on Netflix

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Director Paul Greengrass directs this new Western, following the travelling newsreader Kidd (Tom Hanks) as he escorts a German girl (Helena Zengel) back to her family

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Gabriel Byrne, Andrea Riseborough and Dane DeHaan star in this violent examination of the international drugs trade

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This new Netflix soap opera follows best friends Tully (Katherine Heigl) and Kate (Sarah Chalke) as they grow from childhood to their 40s, trying to make it as journalists

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Zendaya and John David Washington star in this housebound relationship drama from Euphoria writer Sam Levinson

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From a caring Tom Hanks in Paul Greengrass' News of the World to a scary Lupita Nyong'o in Jordan Peele's Us, Netflix in February provides escape from Lockdown 3

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A live-action Harry Potter TV series is reported to be in development with HBO Max