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Our Body review – a brave, unblinking, hospital’s-eye view of women’s health

Documentarist Claire Simon films women, including herself, receiving care in a women’s health, obstetrics and gynaecology ward at a Parisian hospital

‘Hypnotically terrible’: readers on 15 so-bad-they’re-brilliant Christmas movies

Whether you want to watch the story of a killer shark, a royal romance or a long-eared donkey, these films have got you covered

How Nicholas Winton saved 669 children (and counting) from the Holocaust: ‘He became everybody’s grandfather’

Four generations owe their lives to the man who brought trainloads of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to Britain in 1939. The original refugees remember the Kindertransport – and the shy stockbroker who got them on it

‘I left the cinema, walked home and announced I was moving’: films that made people emigrate

If The Lord of the Rings had you yearning for New Zealand, or Julia Roberts on a bike made you fall in love with Bali, you’re not alone. But did you grab your passport and start packing? Meet the people who did

Haunted by past horror: the powerful film about a mother and daughter in the Gorbals

She won an award for the play Expensive Shit. Now Adura Onashile has made Girl, her debut film about a mother and daughter facing violence and racism in Glasgow. How autobiographical is it?

My son’s face lit up at Winnie the Pooh – and my misgivings about Disney melted away

All it takes is the opening credits of a Disney film to whisk me back to my own childhood, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Last Daughter review – one woman’s tender and uplifting search for the truth

Documentary follows stolen generations member Brenda Matthews’ search for her white foster parents

Acting, sexiness and late babies: why Pacino v De Niro is the daddy of all rivalries

Al Pacino will become a father again at 83. Robert De Niro, 79, just had his seventh child. What’s the endgame for this fantastic actors’ smackdown?

Full Time review – school-run thriller turns into high-stakes motherhood drama

Laure Calamy plays a woman forever racing between maternal and work duties in an acutely relatable story that grips

‘My father died in my arms at my wedding’

On his wedding day, Tim Sullivan’s much-loved dad suddenly collapsed and died on what should have been the happiest of days. But what he learned has shaped his life

Family bromance: could Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey really be brothers?

It’s not just receding hair and a shared taste in recreational drugs that makes the two look related. But it is an awfully similar story to their new drama

Blue Bag Life review – raw self-portrait of a life dogged by other people’s addiction

Shot mostly on her mobile phone, Lisa Selby’s film documents her troubled childhood and her partner’s journey from heroin to recovery in this moving memoir

All ears: here’s why Bill Nighy’s Oscars date was a small stained bunny

Was the star of Living making a covert protest on behalf of pygmy rabbits with his Sylvanian squeeze? Or referencing the Taiwanese gay community’s new icon? And what was that spattered over its forehead?

‘It just feels warm and fuzzy’: how Hallmark built an empire of unashamedly schmaltzy rom-coms

In these safe and schmaltzy TV movies, the only thing bigger than Valentine’s Day is Christmas. But are the US network’s cookie-cutter confections beginning to move with the times?

Husband review – family-man study is Made in Chelsea meets Curb Your Enthusiasm

Docu-comedy follows married directors Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum to New York in a subtle follow-up to The New Man

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