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

‘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’

Midnight Traveler review – refugees’ gripping escape from Afghanistan

Filmed entirely on smartphones, Hassan Fazili’s powerful documentary charts his family’s perilous, gruelling trek to sanctuary in Europe

Emma Thompson plays a Croatian mother in Last Christmas. Would my own Croatian mother approve?

The film has been panned, and I was worried by the geopolitical faux pas in the opening scenes. But Thompson’s performance was thrillingly familiar

Honey Boy review – the Shia LaBeouf renaissance begins here

LaBeouf writes and co-stars in this heartfelt, well-performed film based on his own personal history as a troubled young actor and addict

So Long, My Son review – exquisite, agonising Chinese family saga

The epic story of two married couples enduring personal tragedy and state-imposed suffering is an almost unbearably poignant, profound masterpiece

Heimat Is a Space in Time review – epic journey into Germany’s dark past

Thomas Heise’s four-hour documentary draws on the journals of his own family to construct a powerful, agonising history