After Stanley Kubrick

Christiane Kubrick had 42 wonderful years with her husband. But in the decade since his death, she has been beset by tragedy. For the first time, she talks about losing one daughter to cancer, another to Scientology – and why her uncle made films for Goebbels, writes Jon Ronson

Natascha McElhone: My grief

Actor Natascha McElhone was pregnant with her third child when her husband collapsed and died. She talks to Emma Brockes about the diary of her loss

Our trashy Las Vegas wedding

Britt Collins and her boyfriend had a quickie ceremony in the gambling capital of the world. Would it be happy ever after?

Emma Thompson: ‘Family is about connection’

Emma Thompson is as unstarry a film star as you will find. She lives in the street she grew up in and her extended family is the core of her life. She tells Joanna Moorhead how it all works, and about the young Rwandan who joined this close clan as her son

Percy Jackson: My boy’s own adventure

Rick Riordan's son, Haley, has dyslexia and ADHD. Aged nine, he refused to read, but loved Greek myths so Rick turned his boy into a latterday hero – Percy Jackson – in a series of bestselling books and now a Hollywood movie