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In this episode of Screen, the lines between fact and fiction are blurred for the heist thriller American Animals and Chekhov's The Seagull comes to cinemas with Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan. In TV, Nash Edgerton directs the complicated life of a hitman in Mr. Inbetween and the stars of POSE are interviewed.

This week on Screen, director Gus Van Sant reteams with Joaquin Phoenix for Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot and the career of Ian McKellen is detailed in the documentary Playing The Part. In TV, The ABC cracks open the case of Keli Lane and we board the starship Orville for some space set dramedy.

Bruce Beresford directs Ladies In Black, and Searching provides a unique point of view in the genre. In TV, Jim Carrey makes his drama series debut, while Hugh Grant and Ben Wishaw endure A Very English Scandal.

This episode includes Margaret's chat with Jane Fonda about her current film Book Club.

Margaret and Graeme return for season 2 of SCREEN, beginning with a discussion of the much-anticipated Mr Mercedes.

Margaret and Graeme return to SCREEN for season 2, beginning with premium television reviews.

Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd are a bickering couple in Ideal Home, while Shane and Clayton Jacobson show us their dark side in Brothers Nest. In TV, crack cocaine rules 1980s Los Angles in the new drama series Snowfall.

Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams share a forbidden love in Disobedience, and Australian writer-director Leigh Whannell gives us the techno-horror Upgrade.

Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne star in Hereditary, while Ed Harris, Elizabeth Olsen and Jason Sudeikis star in Kodachrome. In TV, UK comedian Romesh Ranganathan moves his family to the US for the docu-comedy series Just Another Immigrant.

Woody Harrelson plays US president Lyndon B Johnson, Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron star in Gringo, and actor Aaron Pedersen is interviewed about Mystery Road, the series.

Margaret and Graeme review The Bookshop, sci-fi thriller Anon, and The Assassination of Gianni Versace, as well as talking to star Darren Criss.

Margaret talks to Julian Dennison from Deadpool 2 and reviews Aussie zombie film Cargo. In TV, Graeme reviews BBC First crime drama Save Me.

Charlize Theron struggles with motherhood in Tully and Westworld star James Marsden talks about making the epic sci-fi western series. 

Simon Baker stars in and directs Breath. Australian classic Picnic At Hanging Rock is reimagined as a gothic drama series.

Steven Soderbergh's iPhone-shot Unsane; Steve Carell, Brian Cranston and Laurence Fishburne team up for Last Flag Flying; and in television, Kit Harrington leads another costume drama in Gunpowder.

Two new series from National Geographic; Genius: Picasso and One Strange Rock are reviewed; and in cinemas, director Mike Newell's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

Emily Bunt and John Krasinski star in the chilling A Quiet Place, and there's a double of animation with Isle Of Dogs and Early Man. On TV, Netflix reboots camp classic Lost In Space as a super slick sci-fi actioner.

Spielberg delivers more pop culture references than you can count with Ready Player One, and Matt Boomer stars in the survival drama Walking Out. In TV, Paterno sees Al Pacino taking on another biopic, this time regarding sexual abuse in US college football.

The Death Of Stalin was a lot funnier than history remembers. In TV, Erik Menendez tells all about the infamous murder of his parents.

Lion director Garth Davis talks about his film Mary Magdalene. In TV, we meet Barry, just your average serial killer turned actor.