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
I was proud to be the ‘bridge’ between my father’s blind and sighted lives
When Imogen Blood was seven, her father lost his sight. John Hull, an academic, was a fun-loving, involved parent and it’s only now that his voice recordings have been made into a film that she realises how terrible his loss was
Dick Van Dyke: ‘In therapy, I realised I was repeating my father’s mistakes’
The veteran actor talks about his father, who was on the road a lot and eventually quit drinking, and the women in his life
Bad Moms review – more rowdy coffee morning than riot grrrl
Mila Kunis leads a revolt against the PTA in a soft-focus mommiverse reminiscent of the average Hallmark movie
Tony Garnett: The backstreet abortion that destroyed my family
Cathy Come Home and Kes producer Tony Garnett is behind much of Britain’s best screen drama since the mid-60s. Only recently did the truth hit home – the secret of his success came from the traumatic loss of both parents when he was five, after a botched abortion
Stanley Kubrick ruined my childhood: my mum, the Hollywood publicist
Simon Booker recalls his unconventional upbringing with his mother who was a glamorous film publicist in the Mad Men era