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

Why kids and 3D films don’t mix

3D films might be a technological marvel, but why didn't they think to make the glasses fit younger children? By Steve Chamberlain

Michael Winner: My family values

Michael Winner, film director

Motor neurone disease: a cruel end to a 50-year love affair

Actor Joss Ackland tells Susan Greenwood about his wife's death from motor neurone disease, and why he decided to publish her frank diaries about their life together

My Jamie is not a ‘designer baby’: he has given his brother a new life

One family tell why they chose a child whose stem cells saved his brother from transfusions and injections

How Britain became the toast of Broadway

Gaby Wood catches up with Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry, to talk about theatrical renaissance, juggling stage and film projects - and his complex love life.

Ninth cousins Obama and Pitt: that family tree in full

Ed Pilkington: It was obvious to any rightwing conspiracy theorist that the meeting was all part of a plot to forward the interests of Obama's family

‘For me, the film of The Ice Storm was like watching a home movie’

Tim Dowling: My wife and I are on a date - dinner, followed by a film

Jack Mustard, in the spa, with a baseball bat

Cluedo has been rebranded - with a Hollywood mansion replacing the English country house. By Kate Summerscale

Christmas 2008: Film

This year's family Christmas blockbusters and other cinematic treats worth leaving the house for

Stories of loss and love from families of army’s fallen

Dan McDougall hears the testimonies from the families of UK soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan

Thanks for the memory

Augusten Burroughs is only 42 but has written five memoirs. In the latest he targets his father - a terrifying figure who he says was capable of murder and almost certainly killed his guinea pig

Saving Sabine

French movie star Sandrine Bonnaire tells Edward Marriott why she has made a film about life with her autistic sister

Crawford’s daughter attacks trend for celebrity adoptions

Christina Crawford, 68, who was adopted by the actress Joan Crawford in 1939, says the recent spate of high-profile adoptions gives her 'tremendous concerns'