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‘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

‘A tear rolls down my cheek’: the lost home movie that taught me about joy, grief and family

When my parents moved from India to the US, old videos kept the generations tied together

‘Fifteen years of total insanity’: how Robert Downey Jr made peace with his maverick father

Robert Downey Sr put his son in wild underground movies and gave him access to drugs. So what happened when Downey Jr finally turned the cameras on his dad?

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  • The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal
  • The North review – old friends’ trek through the Highlands might be the ultimate hiking film
  • Vampire Hunter D review – head-popping visuals offset very pre-MeToo erotic anime
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  • From legal issues to reshoots: is the Michael Jackson biopic cursed?
  • Autumn review – amazing landscape plays central role in Portuguese wine-family drama
  • The Venus Effect review – a sizzling queer romcom without the cliches
  • Bogancloch review – the further adventures of a Scottish hermit in Ben Rivers’ beguiling essay
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  • Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning film-maker of The Sorrow and the Pity, dies aged 97
  • Sebastião Salgado obituary

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