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Who Do You Think You Are? review – Harry Potter and the diamond heist

Daniel Radcliffe is the first of a new crop of celebrities to get the genealogy show’s treatment – and the tale he uncovers is truly tragic

Notes from a Hollywood divorce: ‘We had a primal connection. But we hung by a thread for years’

I wrote a part for my husband in my first movie. By the time filming was over, so was our marriage

Josh O’Connor: ‘This film is as important as I, Daniel Blake’

The God’s Own Country star’s latest role is alongside Laia Costa in Only You. The pair discuss the unflinching infertility drama with its director Harry Wootliff

Act your age: teens put the sheen on films about growing up

Like Eighth Grade, Boyhood and the new comedy Good Boys, the most authentic coming-of-age movies feature casts still in the throes of adolescence

Ordinary Time review – quietly profound joys of bringing up baby

A couple navigate the first few weeks of parenthood in Susana Nobre’s affecting, meditative drama

Three to tango: the pregnant dancer duetting with her husband

A screen role as an expectant dancer prepared Bobbi Jene Smith for the real thing. She talks about doing the bump … with a bump

Jessica Biel denies she is an anti-vaxxer after opposing California vaccination law

The actor said she was ‘not against vaccinations’ despite joining prominent anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr in opposition to a bill intended to reduce medical exemptions

Mother review – tender portrait of a charismatic carer

Kristof Bilsen’s documentary focuses on Pomm, who looks after Europeans with Alzheimer’s in Thailand while facing problems of her own

Seven Up! reaches 63: ‘I started filming them when they were young. But we are like a family now’

George Jesse Turner tells of his 42 years behind the camera on the documentary series that has become a TV institution

Borat caused Pamela Anderson’s divorce, says Sacha Baron Cohen

The comedian confirms that Kid Rock was so incensed by the 2006 comedy that he filed to end his marriage to Baron Cohen’s co-star

The reels on the bus: inside Cannes’s first creche

Children are the new VIPs, say organisers of a nursery to help festival-goers balance deal-making with childminding

Cannes festival in row after director and baby blocked from Palais entry

British film-maker claims she was denied access to Marché du Film, then told to pay fee for baby and wait two days for it to be processed

Irene’s Ghost review – a son’s moving quest for the mother he lost

In his profound documentary, Iain Cunningham talks to people who knew his late mum – before discovering what happened to her

A Deal With the Universe review – one man’s journey to give birth

Jason Barker’s documentary about having to put his transitioning on hold while he tried to become pregnant is filled with gentleness

Barbie, a kitsch throwback? At least she wears it on her sleeve

Mattel’s figurehead has a self-awareness that’s almost charming, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

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