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The Fall Guy review – Ryan Gosling fails to fly in vacuous stuntman action comedy

The combined star power of Gosling and Emily Blunt can’t lift Bullet Train director David Leitch’s action-heavy spectacle into meaningful entertainment

On my radar: Andrew O’Hagan’s cultural highlights

The novelist on a comedic TikTok sensation, the importance of a good suit and his favourite educational app

Prom Dates review – grating high school comedy is a low-rent disaster

Junky romp from producer Kevin Hart sees two teens desperately search for prom dates with unfunny results

Unfrosted review – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts

The history of how the all-American breakfast snack was created is served up with lashings of goofiness in this comedy caper

The Fall Guy review – Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance

Gosling does the dirty work in this entertaining action film, which has moments of tenderness with Blunt among the crashes, leaps and fireballs

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

The writer and podcaster has made a career from dissecting the lore of 2010s memes – many of which she shares here

A way to make a livin’: Jennifer Aniston set for 9 to 5 reboot

Aniston’s production company will reportedly reimagine the hit 1980 Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton comedy about sexism in the workplace – with a script by Diablo Cody

Sometimes I Think About Dying review – Daisy Ridley excels as shy office worker in offbeat comedy

​Rachel Lambert’s perceptive tale of a ​l​oner with a vividly imaginative inner life​ proves an unexpected showcase for the Star Wars actor​’s talents

The Book of Clarence review – a rival Messiah or a very naughty boy?

The Harder They Fall director Jaymes Samuel’s Pythonesque spin on the story of Jesus and the apostles is a wildly indulgent, irreverent blast

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

The This Is Going to Hurt author is Very Online – so he has some gems to share, including 7,000 fireworks going off at once and a parody of every comedy heist film ever made

Swede Caroline review – marrow mockumentary is gourd for a laugh

Zany caper follows Jo Hartley as a big-veg enthusiast defending her patch from elaborate ill-doings

Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson to star in Naked Gun remake

Baywatch star will return to the big screen in the remake of the 80s and 90s crime spoof, directed by the Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer

On my radar: Katherine Ryan’s cultural highlights

The comedian on her favourite new painter, the downfall of Diddy, and wanting to save Britney Spears

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead review – a worthwhile comedy remake

The Christina Applegate-led dark comedy from the 90s gets a shrewdly made update that acts as a blueprint for how Hollywood should revisit older material

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

The British standup loves watching people falling off chairs, old men earnestly explain sandwiches and Will Ferrell bloopers. But who doesn’t?

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  • Cracking sleaze, Gromit: Wallace’s long-suffering canine companion to tell all in memoir
  • Trump’s DoJ intervenes to back Elon Musk in datacenter pollution lawsuit
  • How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’
  • SpaceX overtakes Amazon as world’s fifth most valuable company
  • France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider
  • UK defence spending plan ‘well short of what’s required’ and harder choices needed, says John Healey – as it happened
  • Cate Blanchett promises ‘creative rumpus’ in new role: Oxford professor
  • Abdullah Ibrahim obituary
  • Toy Story 5 review – Pixar franchise needs new batteries
  • UK social media ban could cut lifeline for disabled children, campaigners warn
  • Tom Holland confirms that he and Zendaya are married
  • Sean Penn to direct January 6 drama with Bradley Cooper set to star
  • ‘Don DeLillo gave me his blessing’: film director Ben Rivers on how fan mail from the Underworld author led to his latest work
  • Elon Musk’s unprecendented accumulation of wealth
  • ‘What an adventure Broadway will be!’ Paddington musical packs suitcase for New York
  • Russell Crowe says Gladiator II failed because ‘it didn’t have a moral core’
  • Thirst review – member-dismembering Icelandic gore fest rips it up in trashy 80s style
  • ‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history
  • The Death of Robin Hood review – Hugh Jackman darkens a heroic tale in grim drama
  • ‘He experienced a full life of trauma’: documentary explores troubled tale of Gregg Allman
  • ‘Streaming gave me a space to be myself’: Twitch creators on what it’s like to grow up on the platform
  • UK ministers lobby Trump to avert backlash against social media ban
  • Girlfriends review – love and growing pains in queer coming-of-age tale that goes from Hong Kong to Taiwan
  • Alienated by Disclosure Day? You are not alone
  • Nightwatchers review – desperate struggle of migrant crisis under surface of picture-postcard ski resort
  • Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state’s child social media ban
  • Impact of social media ban for under-16s in UK hinges on how firm it is
  • The Guardian view on regulating big tech: the UK’s new, tougher approach to child safety is overdue
  • Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – as it happened
  • ‘The genie is out of the bottle’: parents react to UK under-16s social media ban

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