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‘My sons hated it’ … Shakira says Barbie film is ‘emasculating’

The Colombian pop star – and mother of two boys – disliked the global blockbuster, saying its message robs men of chance to ‘protect and provide’

‘Mum knew what was going on’: Brigitte Höss on living at Auschwitz, in the Zone of Interest family

Her father was Rudolf Höss, the camp’s commandant. He was arrested by the Jewish great-uncle of the writer Thomas Harding, to whom Brigitte gave this, her final interview – and confession

Motherboard review – enthralling smartphone self-portrait of family life

Victoria Mapplebeck’s documentary stitches 20 years’ worth of footage into a home video love letter to her son, whose whole life so far is observed

Sharing childhood faves with my kids has its ups and downs – but I know it takes them places Netflix or Disney won’t

Helping children detach from the zeitgeist feels important in our algorithmic age. Branching out is hard when there’s always more of what you already love

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

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