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
‘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