The parent trap: why is it still seen as selfish to opt out of being a mother?

A new documentary says society is biased in favour of those who have babies. The film’s maker and others explain why they have chosen to be child-free

Your Mum and Dad review – Larkin-inspired essay on a family’s psychological wounds

Film-maker Klaartje Quirijns turns the camera on her mother and father as they open up about the trauma of her elder sister’s death

Duty Free review – mother-love doc is a heartwarming dose of grit and sass

Sian-Pierre Regis begins filming his mother Rebecca at her lowest ebb, sacked and homeless at 75. But the tables turn for this woman of determination

The Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser hotel sounds like Secret Cinema in hell

Fancy a two-day, £4,500 break in a windowless mockup of a spaceship? That makes one of us

They Live in the Grey review – dead people get seen in artful poltergeist chiller

Abel and Burlee Vang offer a satisfying, troubling portrait of motherhood gone wrong to go with the lashings of gore

A Mouthful of Air review – postnatal depression drama is walking on eggshells

Amy Koppelman’s adaptation floats in a haze of ethereal lite-tragedy towards its end and lacks explicit storytelling passion

‘She immediately saw herself’: how Encanto strikes a major chord in a diverse world

The runaway success of the Colombia-set animation, with its infectious Lin-Manuel Miranda songs, is in no small part thanks to its Latinx characters, cast and key film-makers

My young boy is channelling Hulk

‘Hug very angry,’ he says, it’s scary. But it always ends well for us

Radiograph of a Family review – unveiling a marriage shaped by Iran’s history

Firouzeh Khosrovani’s autobiographical film shows how the turbulent currents of Iranian life defined her family’s life

A maternal truth: some women don’t love their children as society thinks they should

It’s refreshing that the film The Lost Daughter accepts the complexity of child rearing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

It’s a family show: actors with new babies job-share leading roles

Demand is growing to allow flexible working for cast as well as crew in the theatre industry

Dying to Divorce review – Turkish marital violence doc reaches for hope

Interweaving traumatic personal stories with those of systematic state discrimination, the film has to look hard for signs of progress

Mark Strong on acting, insecurity and life without a father: ‘I got angry as I got older. It took years to fix’

After three decades on the stage and screen, the star is still worrying about where his next job will come from. Meanwhile, at home, he frets about letting down his family

A moment that changed me: Patrick Stewart on the teacher who spotted his talent – and saved him

I skipped the 11-plus and was failing at school. Then I met Cecil Dormand, the extraordinary English teacher who transformed my life for ever

In No Time to Die, we finally get to see Bond in a relatable predicament. Sort of

After all the high-speed supercar chases and infiltrating of enemy bases, it’s refreshing to see the secret agent face a challenge closer to home. Even if it isn’t entirely realistic