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
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