Films opening in Australian cinemas this week:
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2
Action/adventure/drama; rated M; opening April 17
Andrew Garfield returns as the web-slinging comic book hero in the sequel to the 2012 reboot, directed again by Marc Webb. Spider-Man aka Peter Parker is embracing his two lives - as the hero of New York and boyfriend of Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). But when a new villain Electro (Jamie Foxx) emerges, along with the arrival of an old friend, Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), Peter realises all his enemies share one thing: OsCorp.
THE OTHER WOMAN
Comedy; rated M; opening April 17
Cameron Diaz stars as Carly, a successful lawyer who realises her boyfriend, Mark (Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) actually has a wife (Leslie Mann). Not only that, but he's also got another, much younger, mistress on the go (Kate Upton), so all three women team up to plot mutual revenge. Directed by Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook).
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
Drama/horror/romance; rated M; opening on April 17 (limited release)
Tom Hiddleston stars as Adam, a depressed underground musician, who reunites with his lover Eve (Tilda Swinton). As vampires, their love has endured many centuries, but their quiet existence is interrupted by an unwanted house guest, when Eve's little sister (played by Aussie Mia Wasikowska) comes to visit. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
Drama; rated M; opening on April 17 (limited release)
Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in this lesser known tale of British writer Charles Dickens, who at the height of his career met the eighteen-year-old actress Ellen `Nelly' Ternan (Felicity Jones), who would become his secret lover up until his death.
CHINESE PUZZLE
Drama/romance/comedy; rated M; opening April 17 (limited release)
A French film by Cedric Klapisch, director of Paris and The Spanish Apartment, this stars Romain Duris as a 40-year-old father of two, who can't bear the thought of his children growing up so far away and ends up following them and their mother to New York. Also starring Audrey Tautou, Cecile De France and Kelly Reilly.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
Drama; rated PG; opening April 17 (limited release)
Acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda of Nobody Knows and Still Walking looks at the `switched at birth' and nature vs nurture debates in this film about workaholic architect Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama), who discovers his six-year-old son is not really his son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby. Now faced with a life-changing decision, he must choose between his biological son or the boy he raised as his own.
