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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

Colin Hanks on his John Candy documentary: ‘Inspiring for me as an actor’

Amazon’s John Candy: I Like Me looks back on the much-loved comedic actor’s life with contributions from Bill Murray, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks

Maintenance Required review – Amazon’s synthetic You’ve Got Mail rip-off

The beats of the 1998 romcom, which was itself a re-imagining of The Shop Around the Corner, are shamelessly regurgitated for this charmless copycat

Grow review – polished pumpkin growing caper stuffed with perky charm and comedy talent

Featuring the likes of Nick Frost, Jane Horrocks and Golda Rosheuvel, this family heartwarmer makes for perfectly serviceable seasonal fare

Rosie O’Donnell: ‘Meat Loaf’s mother wrote me and said, “You can’t be mean to my son”’

The beloved host and comedian on blubbering fans, scary kangaroos, her favourite Irish person and the strangest job she has ever had

Marc Maron is the rare comedian who shows us how it should be done

In a new documentary and as his WTF podcast ends, the US comic has shown a level of integrity and perspective that many of his peers could learn from

London Calling review – Tarantino-esque caper in which a hitman takes a kid on work experience

A washed-up killer-for-hire is charged with making callow gamer Jeremy Ray Taylor into a killer like his dad, but much of the humour fails to land

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