Richard Dreyfuss: ‘The one topic on which my dad would open up was sex’
The actor talks about being the middle child with a funny, political mother and a distant, money-oriented father with a violent past
‘Would you kill my mother for me?’: a dark case of abuse and revenge
Dee Dee Blanchard forced her healthy daughter Gypsy to use a wheelchair and fabricated endless medical emergencies for her. Then Gypsy found a boyfriend, and made a grisly plan to escape her mother and start a new life. Erin Lee Carr tells a deeply disturbing story of Munchausen by proxy and murder
Stanley Tucci: ‘It is vital that families have a meal together – nothing is more bonding’
The Hunger Games actor says food was at the heart of his childhood and he continues the tradition, ensuring his own family eat together every night
My parents’ Dunkirk spirit is probably why I exist
As the British Expeditionary Force was being defeated in France and it looked like the end of the world, did my tyrannical father decide he might want a child after all?
Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of ‘kindergarten horror’
Today’s horror films are being hit by a new wave of creepy clowns, dolls and kids. Are fans reclaiming childhoods stolen by overbearing parents?
Alec Baldwin: ‘Everyone’s loving my Trump impersonation – my brother Stephen, not so much’
The actor talks about the expectations of being the eldest of his brothers, how he and his sisters were turned into the household staff and the delights of working less to be at home more
Charlotte Rampling: ‘I cannot explain it but I have never visited the cemetery where my sister is buried’
The actress talks about coping with the death of her sister, how her father tried to sell his Olympic gold medal and why she is so resilient
How childhood stress can knock 20 years off your life
Heart disease, depression, life expectancy. New research claims that stress exerts a far heavier physical toll than previously understood. The film-maker James Redford talks about how toxic stress can be a killer
Damian Lewis: ‘We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking’
The Homeland actor talks about going to boarding school aged eight, why his family notion of duty is not always helpful and how his mother told him not to marry an actor
As Get Out shows, love isn’t all you need in interracial relationships
Jordan Peele’s film has provoked discussion of issues about race and relationships that often remain too sensitive or uncomfortable to explore
All This Panic review – shrewd but claustrophobic teen-life doc
The film about a group of young New York City teenagers might not tell you all that much that is truly revelatory, but it’s well made and wide-ranging
Liv Tyler: ‘My fathers are both unconventional’
The actor talks about meeting her real father for the first time, and how she and her partner have blended their own young families
How my husband saw blindness as a ‘dark, paradoxical gift’
For Marilyn Hull, life with her husband, John Hull, changed irrevocably when he went blind as their first child was born – an experience captured in the Bafta-nominated documentary Notes on Blindness
Playing dead: my part as a corpse that came back to haunt me
When Olivia Williams was starting out as an actor, one of her first roles was as a dead body in Poplar morgue, providing her with a darkly funny anecdote. But 20 years on the story took a poignant twist…
How do you tell a child his mother is dying?
In A Monster Calls, a boy struggles because nobody tells him the truth about his dying mother. John-Paul Flintoff talks to the people behind the new film of the multi-award winning book