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Anouk Aimée was an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability

The star of La Dolce Vita and A Man and a Woman, who has died aged 92, had a unique screen presence that was at once alluring and forbidding

Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow review – cosy eight-legged crime caper

Our hapless arachnoid investigator bumbles through jazz age intrigue with some charm, but spinning out the slender plot gets a little tiring

A Gangster’s Kiss review – lairy and sweary British crime-com goes to all the places you’d expect

The escapades of this cast of colourful hard men could have been written by Jay from The Inbetweeners

Stephen Fry: ‘The Conservatives are what we call in poker a busted flush’

The actor on playing a Polish Holocaust survivor alongside Lena Dunham, what he likes about hip‑hop and why a boring PM would be a relief

Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving

The Zellner brothers follow a family of grunting sasquatches played by Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough in a wonderful one-off

Divine comedies: the best jokes for the Pope

Pitching his creed to a roomful of comic stars, the pontiff pronounced that it is good to laugh at God. In which case, he may enjoy these

Wow! This clickbait parody is still the funniest thing on the internet

Ten years after its launch, the Onion spinoff ClickHole has outlived much of its source material – with a voice entirely its own

Amy Poehler: ‘If we want young people to fix everything, why do we make fun of them?’

She’s the voice of Joy in Pixar’s Inside Out 2 – but Poehler has more complicated emotions on her mind. The SNL star talks teen angst and clueless grownups in a non-binary world

Ultraman: Rising review – endearing kaiju animation battles the monster that is parenting

Appealing superhero film saddles a kaiju fighter with an orphaned infant, who brings challenges to test supernanny’s domestic mettle

Inside Out 2 review – Pixar returns to emotional Mission Control for Riley’s teen years

Anxiety, Joy and Ennui join the crew as Riley navigates high school, a hockey camp and zits – but where’s Lust?

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

Cher Lloyd, Joanne the Scammer, and Alex Consani … the Triple J host’s list is for the girls and the gays

Treasure review – Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry uneasy in well-intentioned Holocaust drama

Wonky-toned story follows Dunham as a journalist visiting Poland, and Fry as her cuddly European dad, both trying to get to grips with family history

Julia Louis-Dreyfus pushes back on Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘PC crap’ comments

Asked about her former co-star’s claims that comedy had been ruined by ‘the extreme left and PC crap’, the actor said ‘that’s a red flag’

Standup and TikToker Abi Clarke: ‘Why did I get into comedy? Attention!’

The social media star on performing to silent audiences, turning spite into success and still having to prove herself as a ‘proper’ comedian

Gremlins at 40: Joe Dante’s untamed classic is a love letter to chaos

Even in the less conventional summer of 1984, the Spielberg-produced comedy horror was a gleeful rule-breaker

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