Life, Animated review – a tremendous story of family love and Disney cartoons
This poignant documentary is about an autistic boy who learned how to understand the world and communicate with it through Disney characters
Can’t we judge people on their merits, instead of their genes?
The obsession with pedigree as an explanation for success and failure is just a present day form of narcissism
How Disney gave voice to a boy with autism
As a young boy, Owen Suskind suddenly stopped talking. Diagnosed with autism, he remained largely silent until an obsession with Disney movies unexpectedly gave him a voice
The New Man review – painfully intimate
A frank but unremarkable record by parents-to-be becomes profoundly moving when complications arise
Mum’s bucket list: ‘Have a great time after I’ve gone’
When Kate Greene was dying, she left behind a list for her sons – an eclectic mix of thoughts, reminders and life lessons. Now her moving story has been made into a film starring Emilia Fox and Rafe Spall. Tanith Carey meets her family
The New Man review – funny, fearful fatherhood
In a painfully honest documentary, film-maker Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself as his partner’s pregnancy causes him severe existential angst
New man becomes new dad – the very hard way
About to become a father for the first time, film director Josh Appignanesi turned the camera on himself and his pregnant wife. But what started as a light-hearted project suddenly turned very serious
Alfred Molina: ‘My mother and I had a few moments that were like the third act of Aida’
The actor talks about his London schooldays, his tempestuous relationship with his mother and caring for his wife, Jill Gascoine, who has Alzheimer’s
Michael Douglas: ‘Kirk was film star first, father second’
The actor talks about his parents divorcing, his famous father, and being much more hands-on in his own second marriage
Still Loved review – parental resilience and candour in the face of stillbirth
Debbie Howard’s documentary, released for Baby Loss Awareness week, traces the arc from horror to acceptance in interviews with bereaved parents
Brad and Angelina proved there’s no such thing as the perfect marriage: so why do we pretend?
Recent research shows the number of ‘extremely unhappy’ couples has doubled in the UK, but popular culture still clings to the fairytale ending
Jennifer Aniston is discovering that a first marriage is for life
Years after divorce, women are still treated as if under the spell of their ex-husbands. It’s time we allowed them to move on
Why it’s OK to be seen as a bad mother
Struggling for perfectionism is no place for mothers
Tim Dowling: can my choice of family movie top the one about food items having sex?
I press play. Over the next quarter of an hour, an unbearable silence blossoms. ‘When does it get funny?’ my wife asks
Anthony Head: ‘I didn’t go down that well with my brother’
The Buffy actor talks about arriving back home on his brother’s birthday, 13 days after he was born, how he missed his family when he moved to LA and how his father tried to shield him from disappointment