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'Warm Bodies' Got a Hungry Heart

Out now on DVD is Jonathan Levine 's  Warm Bodies , a zombie romance (a zombromance) that did considerably well at the box office. The film is based on Isaac Marion's novel of the same name. Levine's previous films, which include The Wackness and 50/50 , have pitter pattered around broken hearts, as does his latest  Warm Bodies. To keep Julie ( Teresa Palmer ) safe from an undead feeding fest in a post-zombie apocalyptic airport, a zombie in a hoodie known as "R" ( Nicholas Hoult ) hides the girl in an abandoned airplane - a sanctuary where the zomboy can listen to vinyl and kick back after a long day's flesh feast in his reclining aisle seat. R looks a bit like a descendant of Edward Scissorhands; he's a tender and loving zomboy, struck by an unexpected love. Julie can see that good in him, even though he's the one who had earlier eaten her boyfriend Perry's brains in order to...