‘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

Alison Steadman: ‘As you get older, learning lines gets harder’

The actor on doing puzzles in bed, her Liverpool roots and watching wildlife

Early warning: why are films about childhood in crisis looming over Cannes?

From shoplifting kids to a girl growing up in the wild, a crop of films at Cannes focus on children finding unusual ways to navigate a terrifying modern world

Chloë Sevigny: ‘I didn’t want to name names. I think they’re commonly known as assholes anyway’

More than 20 years ago, the actor was anointed ‘the coolest girl in the world’. As her new film opens, she talks about A-list movie stars hogging the best TV roles and why she chose not to add her voice to #MeToo

No bride, no groom, I do: Montana’s proxy weddings on film

US state allows marriages in which neither party is actually there, explored in documentary Absent from Our Own Wedding

The story of one man’s pregnancy: ‘It felt joyous, amazing and brilliant’

Pregnancy is increasingly common among trans men. For Jason Barker, who has made a film about the experience, it changed his life

‘The boat’s been found and he’s not on it’: tragic sailor Donald Crowhurst’s final voyage, by his son

Simon Crowhurst recalls the day his father left on his fateful trip, and explains his reservations about The Mercy, a new film about his story

Morbid? No – Coco is the latest children’s film with a crucial life lesson

Kids’ films can help our children grow into resilient, self-aware, inclusive adults, says the features writer and theatre critic Lucinda Everett

Dougray Scott: ‘Mum’s parents didn’t approve of Dad. They cut off all contact’

The actor talks about learning his craft from his travelling salesman father, hitting his sister over the head with a golf club, and loving his adopted son as fiercely as his biological children