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If you are expecting a fresh spin on 1992’s Single White Female – and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t, since The Roommate’s plot is virtually identical – then you’ll be bitterly disappointed with this tame, tepid, stalker-chick flick.
Gossip Girl’s breathlessly beautiful Leighton Meester plays a misfit college freshman who’s got an unhealthy obsession with her popular new roommate (Minka Kelly). When her ill-starred love goes unrequited, she takes the crazy up a notch.
This premise would normally lead to all sorts of exploitation movie mayhem, but in the hands of Danish director Christian E Christiansen, it becomes a bloodless, charmless bore.
Cat lovers may be unnerved, but fright fans will just yawn their way to the exit.
The Inside Out 2 panic attack scene is one of the best depictions of anxiety ever – and something Pixar director Kelsey Mann is incredibly proud of: "I couldn't be happier"
When making Kingdom Hearts, the "one thing" RPG icon Tetsuya Nomura "wasn't willing to budge on" was a non-Disney protagonist
The Witcher fans in shambles after a new book reveals just how old Geralt really is
