John Maguire on this week's new silver screen releases
Jim Jarmusch's 'The Dead Don't Die' feels frivolous and unfinished, a cobbled-together assembly of under-developed notions, borrowed tropes and cinephile references
Cinema
The Dead Don’t Die: Directed by Jim Jarmusch, Nationwide, 16,Rating:*
Midsommar: Directed by Ari Aster, Nationwide, 16,Rating:***
Half a century ago – the year before man landed on the moon – George Romero released Night of the Living Dead, the first true zombie movie, in which a virus returned from outer space by a Nasa satellite turns the dead into a mob of shambling, insatiable ghouls.
It’s a frightening concept in and ...
