Fortune Feimster: ‘The stage was a crate, the sound system was a karaoke machine. No one enjoyed the show’

The standup on playing a beaver in Zootropolis 2, being inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger and why her mother is a great source of comedy

Outcome review – Keanu Reeves sends himself up in Jonah Hill’s Hollywood satire

Hill writes and directs in-joke and insider-laden spoof about a nice-guy mega-star actor hiding a drug addiction, whose career is threatened when he’s blackmailed over a compromising video

You, Me & Tuscany review – slick romcom offers solidly charming getaway

Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page flirt their way through expected genre tropes in a watchable, if a little unspecific, slice of formulaic fantasy

Slither review – James Gunn’s Troma-style comedy horror debut gets a reboot in reputational glow-up

DC Universe supremo Gunn’s thinly conceived debut feature gets a glossy repackaging for seemingly no other reason than his later success

Dracula review – Romania’s most reliable export is focus of knockabout cut-up satire

Notionally about the vampire, Radu Jude’s new movie involves a bizarre troupe of actors doing a floor-show routine

Ghost Killer review – fantastic karate chopping and gunslinging in in supernatural action-comedy

Top notch choreography features heavily in tale of a student who is inhabited by an assassin’s spirit determined to wreak revenge

Two Women review – sex comedy remake is French-Canadian answer to Confessions of a Window Cleaner

This tale of a pair of women who tire of their partners and arrange sex with strangers is not sexy enough for erotica and not real enough to be drama

Shaun Micallef: ‘Charlie Pickering said that’s the only thing keeping him going – to vanquish me’

The comedian and author on writing a gothic novel, giving up butter and the film he has watched 30 times

DJ Ahmet review – totally charming tale of teen travails in North Macedonia

A young shepherd besotted with his neigbour rigs up his tractor to play music from so she can practise dance routines in a story that remains sunny without hiding hardship

They Will Kill You review – satanic beat-’em-up offers gore, bad jokes and deja vu

A housekeeping role turns into a fight for survival in a derivative cocktail of action, comedy and horror that doesn’t go down all that well

Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice review – double the Vince Vaughn in middling time travel comedy

Another run-of-the-mill streaming caper that fails to offer anything we haven’t seen done better many times before

Surrender to It review – insufferable bunch of actors reconnect for hiking weekend of pain and comedy

There are echoes here of 1992’s Peter’s Friends, and given this thriller’s preposterous script and amateurish production it is likely to generate similar levels of disdain

‘A big smile on my face’: why Everybody Wants Some!! is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their go-to comfort films is a trip back to 1980 with Richard Linklater’s charming hangout comedy

‘I’m a big bear. I lumber’: showbiz superstar Richard Kind on delivering performances you can see from space

The first time Kind starred in Nazi-spoof The Producers, he lost 30lb. Is he – and the West End – ready for his return? And why is he so worried about his old flatmate George Clooney?

‘The dream is to be a standup, but everyone who knows me says: Please don’t’ – Riz Ahmed on chaos, comedy, and defying categorisation

His multi-hyphenate career has made him one of Britain’s most versatile recognisable stars – but hasn’t stopped him facing some seriously awkward moments…