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Hugh Jackman says starring in The Son changed his approach to parenting

Actor says Florian Zeller’s film made him aware of how important it is to share vulnerabilities as a father – not just be strong and dependable

‘I said, put me in a corset asap’: Zawe Ashton on period dramas, pregnancy and embracing silliness

After a series of harrowing roles, the former Fresh Meat star is rediscovering her ‘joyful side’, with a Bridgerton-esque romp – and a baby on the way with Tom Hiddleston

‘We’ll still be watching in 50 years’: how Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman changed Christmas

When the film version of Briggs’s melancholy masterpiece was first screened in 1982, Britons clutched it to their hearts – where it has stayed ever since

Divas/Brotherhood review – powerful studies examine the challenges of growing up

Máté Körösi’s documentary about a trio of troubled young women in Budapest and Francesco Montagner’s film following three sons in a Bosnian shepherd family explore the path to adulthood

My So-Called Selfish Life review – ‘childfree’ women beat at the gates of an old taboo

Women who don’t want children and those who regret being mothers speak in this worthwhile look at a still fraught subject

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

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