The Crime Is Mine review – François Ozon’s 1930s crime comedy is a moreish crowdpleaser
Ozon and a stellar cast serve up an entertaining, if shallow caper that shades a little too close to #MeToo
Members Club review – male strippers meet bloodthirsty witches in gory comedy horror
Hapless dance troupe Wet Dreams get a taste of the dark arts when they’re lured to a gig to raise the dead. Plus: a cameo from Peter Andre
Haunted Ulster Live review – mock Halloween broadcast evokes the spectre of Ghostwatch
Amiable lo-fi horror film presents itself as a live broadcast from a haunted suburban home. It’s well crafted – though unlikely to scare viewers the way the 1992 BBC mockumentary did
Transformers One review – action-packed prequel adds brains to the metal monster smash-ups
Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley brings a blast of energy, sharp wit and an all-star voice cast to this refreshingly different origin tale
Lonely Planet review – Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth heat up beach-read travel romance
A novelist meets a financier two decades her junior at a writers’ retreat in Morocco, in this welcome addition to a flurry of age-gap romances released this summer
Superboys of Malegaon review – boisterous heartwarmer about movie-loving underdogs
Inspired by a true story, this feelgood Indian film is about some Bollywood superfans making their own movies with a cheeky but admirable DIY ethos
Timestalker review – Alice Lowe’s anti-romcom is a darkly hilarious spin through history
The actor and film-maker’s ingenious comedy sees her play a gamut of characters who meet gory ends chasing a not-worth-it love interest
Tara Boom: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The circus artist shares what makes her laugh, including butter sculptures, Werner Herzog reading AI poetry and Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno series
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person review – ethical kills for teen bloodsucker
This offbeat coming-of-age horror comedy about a vampire with qualms about killing humans is stylishly shot by first-time feature director Ariane Louis-Seize
Portraits of Dangerous Women review – dog car crash sets off baffling and peculiar drama
Three unlikely women are pitched together by a muddled plot with results that are short on both drama and comedy
‘It was hard not to stare at him all the time’: inside the remarkable rise and shocking loss of Leonard Rossiter
Best known for sitcoms Rising Damp and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the actor died 40 years ago during a performance of Loot, aged 57. Co-stars, colleagues and friends remember a brilliant, singular and demanding man
Alice Lowe: ‘I’ve always gotten mouthy about sexism and it hasn’t really helped my career’
The actor-writer-director’s new film Timestalker sees her pursue an unsuspecting crush through the centuries. She discusses sexism in the film and TV industry, her dream of being a comedy-horror auteur - and why she’s scared of Kristen Stewart
Young Frankenstein review – Mel Brooks monster comedy is wonderfully alive as ever
Gene Wilder’s giddy brilliance is backed by a tremendous supporting cast and only a few gags lumber as the film is re-released for its 50th anniversary
Daniel Muggleton: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The standup comedian takes us on a tour of the web with some Norm Macdonald, Bill Burr and peak web-comedy made before the era of ‘like and subscribe’
Saudi fitness instructor stabbed in face while jailed over women’s rights posts
Pen used in assault on Manahel al-Otaibi, who has been imprisoned for 11 years for ‘terrorist’ tweets after secret trial