‘Why don’t you believe Palestinians?’: the Israeli comedian putting the conflict on stage
In documentary Coexistence, My Ass!, Noam Shuster Eliassi uses humor and honesty to turn a one-woman show into something politically radical
Shirley Valentine gave Pauline Collins a role to match her talent. She seized it with style and glee
The film for which the actor, who has died aged 85, is best-remembered is also that in which she was afforded most airtime. If only more film-makers had managed to channel her warm, sharp charm
Miss Piggy movie on way from Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Cole Escola
The demanding Muppet is set to get her own movie at Disney with Oscar-winning actors producing and the Tony-winning multi-hyphenate writing
Don’t Trip review – lo-fi comedy shocker sets out to find the horror in Hollywood
What starts as a compelling satire of the film industry turns into an unconvincing schlocky mess that even Fred Melamed can’t save
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost review – Ben Stiller’s moving study on the price his family paid for showbiz
Stiller’s documentary about his parents, comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, is a tender reflection on marriage and what it costs to keep smiling in the entertainment business
The Spin review – laughter and vinyl in wacky Irish road movie as pals try to save their record store
Bizarre dialogue riffs add flavour to this likable film about two friends on a road trip to track down some super rare records
It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This review – DIY found-footage horror looks for chills in a new home
Film-makers Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti play new owners of a haunted house in a DIY effort that is fun but fatally unscary
The Draft! review – entertaining Indonesian meta-horror goes down the Scream route
The tired old tropes of spooky visions, cursed wells and cookie-cutter characters are gleefully dissected in a fun slasher that trades a cabin in the woods for a villa in the jungle
100 Nights of Hero review – Emma Corrin leads starry cast in a queer fable with a serious streak
Gender, sexuality, status and power are all in flux in Julia Jackman’s playful medieval fairytale, adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, also starring Maika Monroe and Charli xcx
‘Stole my heart’: why My Best Friend’s Wedding is my feelgood movie
The next in our series of writers sharing their all-time favourite comfort films is a trip back to 1997 with Julia Roberts’s charmingly chaotic anti-hero
Lady review – outrageous mockumentary is like Saltburn on shrooms
With supreme entitlement, Sian Clifford’s Lady Isabella shines as ‘aristocracy’s answer to the Kardashians’ in this barnstorming comedy
‘Shattered my whole world’: the wild story behind stranger-than-fiction drama Roofman
Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst lead the acclaimed new comedy drama about an escaped prisoner hiding in a toy store and deceiving a local woman
Sunlight review – monkey-suited woman goes on road trip in Nina Conti’s super-quirky directing debut
There are plenty of laughs and a fair bit of trauma to process when a depressed man takes a monkey woman across country
From Annie Hall to Something’s Gotta Give: Diane Keaton was the quintessential comedy queen
The late actor won an Oscar for leading a romantic comedy in the 1970s and set the blueprint for many of the women who followed her in the genre
John Candy: I Like Me review – starry but treacly tribute to comedy legend
The much loved actor has no shortage of celebrity fans, but this documentary avoids his more complex traits in favour of his sweet-natured on-screen person