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From K-drama to K-horror: How South Korea is reinventing zombie flicks
South Korea already as a reputation for making great TV dramas and now Netflix is helping bring their horror films to the world.
- by Nell Geraets
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Civil War is dividing audiences. But what is the chilling film trying to say?
The author of The Beach and director of Ex Machina has made a film about the collapse of democracy. It’s a harrowing vision but, he says, it needn’t come true.
- by Karl Quinn
She took on Amy Winehouse, even though she knew the risks
Marisa Abela, who plays the British singer in the film Back to Black, says the biopic is an honest portrait of the star’s relationship with her controversial father Mitch.
- by Louise Rugendyke
★★
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Back to Black is a tasteless melodrama that tarnishes Winehouse’s legacy
No one had a voice like Amy Winehouse. The film about this once-in-a-lifetime singer disappoints.
- by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
★★★
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Civil War began as a work of fiction, then it almost became fact
Kirsten Dunst stars as a photojournalist in this grimly candid portrait of the US ruled by a dictator in the White House – and a society under collapse.
- by Sandra Hall
From child star to global icon: Zendaya on her meteoric rise
Leaving behind the teen roles that made her famous, the 27-year-old actor channels her inner grit in Challengers.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
★★★★
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This striking film is Tomb Raider in Tuscany, and you won’t want to miss it
With a cast that includes Isabella Rossellini, La Chimera is a stunning, dream-like film where pretty much anything can happen.
- by Jake Wilson
Will any space ever mean quite as much as the teenage girl’s bedroom?
From Cher’s automated wardrobe in Clueless to the Gothic gloom favoured by Wednesday Addams, adolescent decor is a time-honoured cultural trope.
- by Simmone Howell
★★★★
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Horror addicts and nostalgia buffs will relish this spooky Aussie film
Inspired by Don Lane, the American who dominated the Australian chat show in the mid-’70s and early ’80s, Late Night with the Devil hits the right notes.
- by Sandra Hall
Bridget Jones is back, but widowed. And with a hot new love interest
In the fourth instalment of the franchise, Hugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver is back from the dead. But there’s bad news for fans of Colin Firth’s Mr Darcy.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Even Martin Scorsese can make a bad film, and this one’s his worst
The filmmaker’s 2002 epic is the cinematic equivalent of a tabloid paper.
- by Sandra Hall