‘A loose-limbed trifle’: why Manhattan Murder Mystery is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers on their go-to comfort watches is a look back to Woody Allen’s smart and nimble 1993 comedy

La Cocina review – Rooney Mara gets stuck in in New York restaurant kitchen drama

The tempestuous chef trope has been done better elsewhere and this kitchen as a microcosm of exploited migrant workers is a disappointment

From The Simpsons to Werner Herzog: the coolest, craziest, scariest Nessies ever

Loch Ness Monster hunters have included the Chuckle Brothers – and even David Lean. As the Scottish icon is honoured in a new stamp and a stirring musical, we separate the classy from the crackpot

Seth Rogen on going from onscreen slacker to studio boss: ‘People really do scream at each other in Hollywood’

He might be known for his stoner vibe and roles in comedies such as Superbad and Knocked Up, but behind the scenes the actor, writer, weed-lover and pottery fan has also become a producing power player. Has it changed him?

Just Another Girl on the IRT review – Leslie Harris takes on race, sex and class in 90s indie gem

Ariyan A Johnson stars as the back-talking, fourth wall-breaking high schooler who falls pregnant in Harris’s rough and ready drama

Sez: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

This gen Z comedian is perfectly placed to pick the internet’s funniest titbits, including Natalie Portman rapping, Hot Department and crying over LMFAO

The Parenting review – supernatural caper is a so-so comedy and a lousy horror

A gay couple are trapped in a haunted Airbnb with their parents in an initially amusing but progressively exasperating genre mishmash

Friendship review – Tim Robinson spirals in a darkly hilarious comedy

The star of I Think You Should Leave brings a similar brand of comedy to this strange and genuinely funny film about a friendship breakup

Josh Berry: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The British comedian shares his list of mostly comedy classics. Then it gets existential

Sister Midnight review – Mumbai-set comic horror finds the terror in arranged marriage

Radhika Apte is terrific as a woman preparing to settle down with a shiftless husband she barely knows when her world goes awry

Novocaine review – throwaway one-joke action comedy brings the pain

Jack Quaid is a charming lead as a man who can’t feel pain but this high-concept caper brings low-level enjoyment

Oh My Goodness! review – bike-racing nuns go for the prize in freewheeling clerical comedy

Silly French comedy pits one convent against another in a contest that could fund a trip to Rome but won’t raise many laughs

All Happy Families review – childhood home is renovation project in likable indie drama

An entire family gather to renovate their creaking childhood home in this easygoing, truthful portrait

American Dreamer review – Peter Dinklage is charmer in oddball tale of eccentric inheritance

Hardluck lecturer Dinklage stands to receive a mansion from rich widow Shirley MacLaine in underpowered comedy

‘Keeps me optimistic’: why You’ve Got Mail is my feelgood movie

The next entry in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort picks is an ode to Nora Ephron’s winsome romantic comedy