Burt Reynolds: my family values
The actor talks about his father who was his hero, but not keen on his son’s choice of acting as a career, plus the son he loves and misses
Clarke Peters: my family values
The actor and writer talks about how his brother got him his first job in showbusiness, his grief at his young son’s death and why he’s now celibate
Should I take my young child to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
Ratings boards have assigned 12A and PG-13 ratings to JJ Abrams’s highly anticipated forthcoming movie. But is the new episode really any scarier than The Empire Strikes Back?
Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons
Charlie Brown – the anxious, bungling Peanuts cartoon antihero meant more to Stuart Jeffries as a boy than any rip-roaring adventurer
Stellan Skarsgård: my family values
The actor on being the eldest of five and a father of eight – and the Swedish art of compromise
My dad’s secret family in Africa
Karen Guthrie’s father formed a second family while he was working abroad. How it affected his original family emerged when she started to make a film about it
Experience: I was abducted by my father
‘My father told people my mother was dead, or an unfit parent. I felt abandoned, and confused’
Verne Troyer: my family values
The actor talks about growing up Amish and being the cool uncle
Nanni Moretti: ‘I always feel there’s something missing’
Nanni Moretti’s mother was dying during the making of his last film. Now the Italian director has turned that experience into Mia Madre. But why did he cast a woman as himself?
John Waters: my family values
The American director of films including Hairspray and Serial Mom talks about having an uncle who worked for Nixon and being a weird gay version of his father
‘It was like time travel. It reminds you just how courageous the suffragettes were’
A film out next month tells the story of women’s emancipation, and Helen Pankhurst has a small role. As the great-granddaughter of the woman who founded the suffragette movement, it was a chance to mend a family split
Tim Dowling: there must be better ways to mark a wedding annivesary than to see a film about a wedding anniversary
What’s worse than an impending 23rd wedding anniversary? Watching a bleak film about a 45th wedding anniversary, that’s what
I ratted out my bank robber brothers
A powerful real-life story about a gang of three brothers and violent father, convicted in 1990s Sweden, is a bestseller there. Only one person could have told the tale – the fourth brother, who resisted a life of crime
Pierre Coffin: Me and my Minions
Nick McGrath meets Pierre Coffin, familiar to film-lovers as the voice (and creator) of Despicable Me’s Minions