América review – portrait of a grandmother wrapped in love

A 93-year-old Mexican woman is the startled star of this irresistible documentary about her relationship with three doting grandsons

Like Anne Hathaway, I ditched alcohol so I could be a better parent

I’m a recovering alcoholic mother, and the child of an alcoholic mother. I won’t put my children through the same dark chaos, says counsellor Claire McCartan

‘Do I look pretty?’ is my daughters’ favourite question and it’s worrying me

Too many pre-teen girls are anxious about how they look. Fairytale princesses with tiny waists don’t help, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Keira Knightley: ‘I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick’

The star of Colette on Harvey Weinstein, Disney princesses and why her visceral essay about childbirth and the Duchess of Cambridge hit a nerve

We flew to New York to create a Home Alone Christmas. Careful what you wish for

Only one good thing came out of my family’s quest to ape the McCallisters, says writer Phoebe-Jane Boyd

Three Identical Strangers review – shocking story of triplets separated at birth

Tim Wardle’s compelling documentary spotlights the notorious case of three men who grew up not knowing their siblings existed

Mirai review – an anime fantasy that bottles the magic of childhood

Mamoru Hosoda places himself among the best at his craft with a painterly tale of a boy dealing with a new sibling

Carey Mulligan calls for on-set childcare in film industry

Actor speaks out about lack of progress for working mothers in wake of #MeToo movement

‘Rescue yourself!’: Keira Knightley on why her daughter can’t watch Cinderella

Knightley has ‘banned’ the Disney princess film, while Kristen Bell uses Snow White to teach her children about lack of consent

Yes, Piers Morgan, James Bond would totally wear a baby sling

The breakfast TV contrarian is at it again, tweeting off about Daniel Craig (or 007) and a papoose, says Guardian journalist Stuart Heritage

Would you watch Fifty Shades with your baby? The parent and child screening scandal

Councils have begun policing adult films at parent and baby screenings, claiming they ‘traumatise’ infants. But the mothers at this showing say the films help keep them sane

Jesse Eisenberg on Woody Allen, anxiety and fatherhood: ‘Now I get to worry about something visible’

A little bit difficult, a little bit intense: the star of The Social Network has often seemed more comfortable with a film script than with messy human emotions – including his own. But that’s changed…

‘Poor Jennifer Aniston’ is an absurd tag for a woman so fulfilled and successful

A second divorce sees the former Friends star Jennifer Aniston replay her old role: female failure personified

I asked my mum to be in my YouTube videos. Now she’s a Bollywood star

When the comedian Mawaan Rizwan put his mother Shahnaz into his videos, they were an instant hit. And then Bollywood came calling...

How cinema embraced the silent agony of being a parent

In the British drama The Escape, Gemma Arterton stars as a mother who walks out on her family, unable to cope. It’s one of several new films about parenthood with which many women will empathise