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How would a five-year-old change James Bond’s life?

According to a new report, No Time to Die sees Daniel Craig’s spy discovering he has a young child. Are CBeebies and car chases ever really compatible?

Actor Monica Dolan: Losing my brother to Covid-19 is part of a global story

The star of the film Days of the Bagnold Summer talks about how the death of her brother came while she was preparing to play a bereaved woman

Come-hither lions and sleazy owls: when Disney classics are difficult

I thought the Disney+ archive of classic films was a perfect lockdown diversion for my kids – until I rewatched them

The Family Way review – potent portrait of sex in the swinging 60s

In this rereleased comic drama, Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett play a couple plagued by a wedding-night disaster and the neighbours’ wagging tongues

Sense and social distancing: ‘Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen’s heroines’

Unrequited lust, hours indoors with family and the need for a turn around the parlour are classic period tropes – now we’re all living Pride and Prejudice

Lockdown watch: Asif Kapadia on setting his kids Hitchcock essays

The Diego Maradona and Amy director gorges on spaghetti western, succumbs to Disney+ ... but steers clear of disaster flicks

The Easy Bit review – how men get to grips with IVF

This well-intentioned documentary about the first step in fertility treatment has moments of humour but is too emotionally hectoring

‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+

The long read: Disney’s new streaming service arrived in the UK just as the coronavirus lockdown kicked in. With so many hours to fill, it seemed like a sensible investment. Pretty soon, it was infiltrating my every waking hour

Circus of Books review – tender doc about family life and gay porn

An affectionate and absorbing documentary from film-maker Rachel Mason about her devout parents, who ran a famous adult bookstore in early-80s LA

Tigertail review – dreams, regrets and a life built on a lie

A young Taiwanese man faces an agonising choice when offered a new life in the US in this heartfelt drama from a writer of Parks and Recreation

‘He didn’t even pretend to let us win’… Growing up with the world’s biggest stars, by their children

The sons and daughters of John Wayne, John Lennon, Caitlyn Jenner and others tell us what it was like to grow up with a world-famous dad

‘Boring but cool!’: can children predict box-office success?

A test screening of trailers for this year’s most anticipated family films – from Mulan to Peter Rabbit 2 – reveals what kids really want to see at cinemas

How Pixar’s hit Onward was born from childhood bereavement

Director Dan Scanlon tells how his own childhood loss informs the movie, which also has Disney’s first gay character. ‘We want it to feel real,’ he says

Midnight Family review – an alarming look at Mexico’s ambulance cowboys

A broken system is laid bare by this bleak doc trailing a private ambulance crew as they zoom around after accident victims

An ad showing a woman’s body after birth is still too radical for the Oscars

An ad depicting the very real struggles that mothers face in the days after giving birth was rejected for being ‘too graphic’

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