Rude awakening: when movies change their original NSFW titles

Hit Netflix comedy A Family Affair and Zoe Kravitz’s upcoming thriller Blink Twice were both once called very different things

Space Cadet review – Emma Roberts joins Nasa in lazy streaming slop

There are shades of Legally Blonde and Private Benjamin in Amazon’s lesser, low-rent comedy about a Florida bartender with dreams of being an astronaut

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

The comedian, screenwriter and actor’s list includes a Jurassic Park melodica cover and Kristen Wiig’s Liza Minnelli impersonation

Problemista review – quirky hipster comedy lets Tilda Swinton go for the laughs

Swinton almost, but not quite, rescues this film by SNL star Julio Torres with its Wes Anderson-esque onslaught of cutesy kookiness

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – fish-out-of-water Eddie Murphy chases past glories

Murphy’s maverick cop – and his theme music – are back to fight corruption, but four decades on there’s little energy to enliven their formulaic reunion

From The Idea of You to A Family Affair: the summer of age-gap romances

Anne Hathaway and Nicole Kidman are romancing younger stars in glossy new romcoms, adding texture to the dreaded cliche of the ‘cougar’

Loop Track review – no escape for tormented hiker on horror trek to creature-feature hell

Writer-director Thomas Sainsbury plays a twitchy divorcee who wants to get away from it all, but this intriguing journey disappoints at the final hurdle

A Family Affair review – Nicole Kidman’s hot age-gap romance quickly goes cold

Zac Efron plays a heartless airhead movie star who is much too hastily transformed into Kidman’s Mr Perfect

Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever?

The trailer for Amazon’s reportedly troubled $250m action-comedy shows that it might just be weightless action mush

Network review – terrific 1976 news satire is an anatomy of American discontent

Peter Finch won a posthumous Oscar for his uproarious performance as a swivel-eyed news anchor – a cross between Billy Graham and Donald Trump

Poolman review – Chris Pine makes splash of totally wrong kind in shambolic stoner comedy

Pine writes, directs and stars – alongside Danny DeVito and Annette Bening – in this rambling comedy mystery about a shaggy, quirky pool attendant

Freelance review – John Cena fun in kind of pulpy action-comedy Arnie used to make

Cena and Alison Brie bring the genre up to date, with the pair comically adept enough to rescue this rescue mission from being a lame duck

On my radar: Mark O’Connell’s cultural highlights

The prize-winning nonfiction writer on a generational comic talent, the incredible Helen Garner novel you should read and a deeply relaxing bed of nails

The Emu War review – wall-to-wall silliness that will make you laugh-out loud, sometimes

This viscerally cockamamie comedy maintains enjoyable momentum, even when gun-toting puppet birds begin to attack

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

The DJ, writer and TikTok’s favourite toy collector has curated a list that is a time machine back to early YouTube – best played on a Nintendo Wii at a kick-on