Clueless review – Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy are class acts in 90s Jane Austen parallel
Amy Heckerling’s high school romcoming-of-age classic, composed entirely of quotable funny lines, remains a sophisticated pleasure 30 years on
Chicken Town review – endearingly daft Fenland crime caper has a shedful of charm
Sparky performances lift this British crime comedy about a pair of young drug dealers who forge an unlikely alliance with a retired busybody
John Oliver on AI slop: ‘Some of this stuff is potentially very dangerous’
The Last Week Tonight host went deep on the creative bankruptcy and long-term concerns over AI images and videos flooding the internet
‘Full of delightful surprises’: why Spy is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers recommending their go-to comfort watches is an ode to Paul Feig’s 2015 comedy starring a never-better Melissa McCarthy
Bride Hard review – Rebel Wilson action comedy is hard to endure
The star makes for a charmless lead in a rubbishy attempt to mash a female-led wedding comedy and an action caper
Mel Brooks to reprise role in Spaceballs sequel
The actor-writer-director, who will turn 99 this month, is set to return for an in-development follow-up to his 1987 spoof comedy
‘Chaps frame the buttocks in a beautiful way’: John C Reilly on Magnolia, moving into music – and his nice bum
The actor and musician takes your questions on devastating box office results, his love of Oliver Hardy, and his new vaudeville crooner alter ego
Deep Cover review – Bryce Dallas Howard leads improv actors into London’s underground
Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed star in an entertaining odd-trio crime caper with turns by Sean Bean and Paddy Considine
Aidan Jones: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The standup shares his favourite Australian comedians – as well as a man transforming into a cat
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life review – witty, well-played French comedy in a Bridget Jones vein
Camille Rutherford is endearing as a writer who wins a place on a Jane Austen retreat, but will she discover love or something more realistic?
Am I gay? Take this quiz to find out (or not)
Online tests promise to guess your sexuality based on your favourite fruit, colour and pasta shape. They’re preposterous – and also preposterously fun
Janet Anderson: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The actor and writer provides a crash course in queer comedy, from Cole Escola to Trixie and Katya
The Seven Year Itch at 70: a comedy about infidelity ruined by the Hays code
Marilyn Monroe is incandescent in Billy Wilder’s comedy about a tempted married man, but it’s a film hampered by restrictions of the time
WTF with Marc Maron is ending. Here are five of the podcast’s best interviews
After nearly 16 years the veteran standup comic is calling time on the show that redefined podcasting
Three Friends review – charm aplenty in super-tasteful comedy that couldn’t be more French
All the typecast antics, such as having extramarital affairs, discussing feelings in depth and the occasional theatrical shrug are here in this typically bourgeois ensemble piece