Dogman review – the most ludicrous film you’ll see all year, maybe ever
Luc Besson’s wacky revenge fantasy follows luckless drag artist Doug and his pack of canine chums that do his criminal bidding – you can’t look away
Comandante review – fun, if you ignore the voice in your head telling you it’s wrong
Edoardo de Angelis’s new film was made in collaboration with the Italian navy, which clarifies the pervasive sense that it’s attempting to launder Italy’s wartime reputation
Venice film festival: T-shirts replace red carpet glitz as striking stars lie low
Support for the Hollywood strikes is evident as festival hopes its strong line-up makes up for lack of glamour
Sex and the smackdown: the crazy world of wrestling cult comic Andy Kaufman
Why did the Taxi and Saturday Night Live star travel across America paying women $1,000 to wrestle him? Could transcendental meditation have had anything to do with it?
Fear, fangs and frying pans: here’s what I learned by watching 13 horror movies in 48 hours
London’s Frightfest shows everything from slasher flicks to arty experiments, though I wasn’t prepared for the number of deaths by kitchen utensils
The First Slam Dunk review – basketball is the universe in resplendent hit anime
Takehiko Inoue’s classic manga spinoff has magnificent on-court scenes, but doesn’t quite sink the backstory
Chuck Chuck Baby review – whimsy and realism combine in big-hearted romance
Louise Brealey is put-upon Helen, a chicken factory worker who gets a second chance at love, in Pugh’s generous and gritty film
Scrapper review – impressively tender portrait of a girl’s precarious life
Georgie is just surviving alone on the edge of society, when the arrival of her errant father complicates things further – in a bittersweet debut from director Charlotte Regan
Silent Roar review – charming coming-of-age tale of existential angst and surfing
This sweet funny feature debut from Johnny Barrington is set on the Isle of Lewis with shades of Bill Forsyth
Mercy Road review – there’s no other thriller quite like it
Luke Bracey plays a dad on a mission to save his daughter in this strangely surreal film set mostly in a truck. It’s part-Speed, part-Phone Booth, all nightmare
Iranian director Saeed Roustayi jailed for ‘unauthorised’ Cannes film screening
Sentence of the Leila’s Brothers maker, along with producer Javad Noruzbegi, was for ‘propaganda of the opposition against the Islamic system’
‘The night is literally in my hands’: what it’s like to attend an acid house rave – in virtual reality
Using VR and haptic vests to transport users to a sweaty club in 1980s Britain, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is so realistic that you might need a lie down afterwards
20 greatest Venice film festival Golden Lion winners – ranked!
With the 80th instalment of the festival on the Lido around the corner, we sort through the winners of one of cinema’s most prestigious accolades
Incredible But True review – screwball metaphysics on the property market
Giddy comedy about middle-aged house hunters who find more in a bargain buy than anyone but director Quentin Dupieux could have dreamed
L’Immensità review – desperation and secret yearning in 1970s Rome
Emanuele Crialese’s drama of family dysfunction, starring Penélope Cruz, offers moments of glorious escapist fantasy