Tales of infidelity make for easy drama on a quite general level, but when one of the parties involved is a huge celebrity, it tends to amplify the intrigue. Such is the case with The Invisible Woman, multi-hyphenate Ralph Fiennes‘ second directorial effort, and the story of author Charles Dickens and his mistress, Ellen “Nelly” Ternan (Felicity Jones). Adapted from a meticulously researched 1991 book by Claire Tomalin, the film chronicles Dickens’ willful dissolution of his marriage to wife Catherine (Joanna Scanlan), the mother of his 10 children, even in the face of the impossibility of a public relationship with Nelly. I recently had a chance to speak one-on-one with Scanlan, about the film, her television writing career and one of the year’s most jaw-dropping big screen confrontations. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the read.

In addition to anchoring one of the country’s most popular TV series, zombies have, in just the past calendar year, done big-screen battle with British East-Enders (Cockneys vs. Zombies), served as the backdrop to a funky tale of adolescent self-doubt and blossoming young love (Warm Bodies), been given the John Hughes treatment (Detention of the Dead), and chased Brad Pitt to the biggest gross of his career (World War Z). So it’s only fitting that they also inspire a tale of obsessive romance taken too far.

That’s part of the core premise of director Joe Dante’s Burying the Ex, in which Evelyn (Ashley Greene) doesn’t let the fact that she’s a newly minted member of the walking dead stop her from stalking her way back into the life of her (normal, living) ex-boyfriend Max (Anton Yelchin), who’s trying to move on with a new relationship, with Olivia (Alexandra Daddario). I recently had a chance to visit the film’s Los Angeles set, in the days prior to the production wrapping principal photography just before Christmas. There, I watched shooting and had a chance to chat with members of the cast and crew. A conversation with Daddario is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the read. More will follow in the coming days.