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Oct-22
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EMPIRE WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO THIS MONTH
CHATTING TO RIAN JOHNSON FOR THE KNIVES OUT SEQUEL
TALK TO US
TO BOLDLY GO… The news that Star Trek’s
CROSSWORD AND COMPETITION
TAKE 20
Chaos in Gotham!
With Bat-people popping up everywhere, we lay out the latest happenings in the world of the Caped Crusader
How to make a killer ending
David Gordon Green explains how he’s wrapping up his grisly Michael Myers trilogy with HALLOWEEN ENDS
HUNGER GAMES’ NEW PLAYERS
MEET THE MAJOR CHARACTERS IN DYSTOPIAN PREQUEL THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES
BLACK IN FOCUS
AMON WARMANN chews over the main moment in Black film and TV this month
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Unfiltered, uncensored, uncompromising trailer reactions from team EMPIRE
Brandon Perea
THE 27-YEAR-OLD ACTOR PLAYS A CURIOUS TECH SALESMAN IN JORDAN PEELE’S NOPE
A new kind of comic-book movie
Director Owen Kline on Funny Pages, his ink-stained coming-of-ager
Why Martin McDonagh got the band back together
The director of THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN on going from Oscar success to a reunion with old friends
Inside Nope’s chilling chimp attack
Jordan Peele and Terry Notary break down their show-stopping set-piece
The gripping true story set to take on Top Gun
DEVOTION director J.D. Dillard on his deeply personal aviation movie
NEXT IN THE SERIES
You fell in love with that incredible new TV show. And then it ended! Don’t despair — Boyd Hilton recommends the sibling shows to watch next
Ryan Gosling: Ghost Rider
The star has said he wants to play the flame-headed motorcyclist, and Kevin Feige approves. Here’s why it makes sense
A foodie thriller plating up privilege
Succession director Mark Mylod talks us through his star-studded gastro-satire, THE MENU
The serial-killer story that puts evil in scrubs
Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns on true-crime medical thriller The Good Nurse
His Guy Cary
Jason Isaacs on his formidable new challenge: playing Cary Grant in a new biopic series
The teen horror show Mike Flanagan was meant to make
An emotional bond ties the genre master to his latest show, THE MIDNIGHT CLUB
“There was only one accident on set. It was just a flesh wound”
[ THE Q&A] As a younger, pluckier Galadriel in The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, MORFYDD CLARK is ready for anything
The crazy creatures of Strawberry Mansion
The filmmakers of the year’s quirkiest sci-fi on making their dreams (and nightmares) a reality
RETRO VESTS
These garish gilets prove that you don’t need sleeves to make a statement
The Swimmers
[ ON-SET REPORT] The true story of an Olympic athlete and her sister fleeing Syria gets the feature-length treatment
The TV offer Stallone couldn’t refuse
Why the star signed up for his first leading small-screen role: a Mafia capo in Tulsa King
The star who took sci-fi into the future
[ IN MEMORIAM]
Remembering the electrifying Olivia Newton-John
[IN MEMORIAM]
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN
ILLUSTRATION ARN0 Which movie have you seen the
ON SCREEN
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
BIG SCREEN. SMALL SCREEN. YOUR REVIEWS BIBLE STARTS
BODIES BODIES BODIES
The party’s over for Bee (Maria Bakalova) and
PIGGY
★★★ OUT 7 OCTOBER / CERT 18 /
LUCK
★★★ OUT NOW (APPLE TV+) / CERT PG
MOONAGE DAYDREAM
David Bowie: none more Ziggy. Or, for that
THE FORGIVEN
Desert storm: Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes as
AFTER YANG
★★★★ OUT 22 SEPTEMBER / CERT TBC /
ALL IS VANITY
★★★ OUT 16 SEPTEMBER / CERT TBC /
THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING
Djinn and tonic: Alithea (Tilda Swinton) has
PREY
Dane DiLiegro as the new — or rather,
IT IS IN US ALL
★★ OUT 23 SEPTEMBER / CERT 15 /
STRAWB ERRY MANSION
★★★ OUT 16 SEPTEMBER / CERT 12A /
SPEAK NO EVIL
★★★★ OUT 16 SEPTEMBER (SHUDDER) / CERT TBC
THE RETALIATORS
★★ OUT 14 SEPTEMBER / CERT TBC /
FUNNY PAGES
★★★★ OUT 16 SEPTEMBER / CERT TBC /
LAAL SINGH CHADDHA
★★★ OUT NOW / CERT 12A / 159
DAY SHIFT
Once bitten: Seth (Dave Franco) attempts to see
ORPHAN: FIRST KILL
★★★ OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 98
THE SCORE
★★★ OUT 9 SEPTEMBER / CERT 15 /
BULLET TRAIN
The Pulp Fiction prop sale had turned nasty.
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
Daemon (Matt Smith) inspects a dragon’s egg; ★★★
SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW
Going green: Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and She-Hulk (Tatiana
BAD SISTERS
Black comedy: sisters are doing it for themselves
FEATURES
BACK ON THE CASE
THINK YOU KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A KNIVES OUT SEQUEL? AS DIRECTOR RIAN JOHNSON, DANIEL CRAIG AND THE CAST OF SUN-BAKED MURDER-MYSTERY GLASS ONION TELL US, YOU HAVEN’T A CLUE…
KNOW YOUR ONIONS
BEFORE GLASS ONION THERE WAS… THIS LOT. READ IT AND WEEP
FULL FORCE
RIAN JOHNSON THREW EVERYTHING HE HAD INTO THE LAST JEDI, WHICH CHALLENGED EVERYONE: HIM, HIS CAST AND HIS AUDIENCE. FIVE YEARS SINCE ITS RELEASE, HE LOOKS BACK AT THE FILM THAT SHOOK UP THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE FOREVER
CALLING THE SHOTS
RIGHT FROM THE START, RIAN JOHNSON HAS BEEN TAKING PHOTOS ON HIS SETS, CAPTURING CANDID MOMENTS FOR POSTERITY. HERE, HE LEADS US THROUGH A NOSTALGIC TOUR OF HIS WORK, INCLUDING SOME IMAGES NEVER SEEN BEFORE
NEW ROM NTICS
BROS WANTS TO MAKE US LAUGH, MAKE US CRY, AND BREAK A WHOLE LOT OF NEW GROUND IN THE PROCESS. AS ITS STAR BILLY EICHNER AND THE TEAM TELL US, THE GAY ROMCOM HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING
The Bombs Hell
SHE’S THE MOST COMPLEX, TALKED-ABOUT, SPECTACULAR ICON OF OUR TIME. AND NOW MARILYN MONROE HAS THE FILM TO MATCH. STAR ANA DE ARMAS AND DIRECTOR ANDREW DOMINIK REVEAL HOW THEY RAMPED UP THEIR AMBITION FOR THE EXPLOSIVE BLONDE
GANG FIGHT
AS EXPLOSIVE ACTION-DRAMA GANGS OF LONDON RETURNS, DIRECTOR CORIN HARDY, STAR SOPÉ DÌRÍSÙ AND MORE TELL US HOW THEY DESIGNED AND EXECUTED A BRUTAL DEATH-MATCH
LADY DYNAMITE
From 1970s pioneer to modern-day icon, the trailblazing PAM GRIER has always done things her way...
REVIEW
All Our Yesterdays
As the first two Star Trek movies hit 4K, the legendary WILLIAM SHATNER talks transferring Trek to the big screen
With friends like these…
The pair behind pitch-black Brit-com ALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME talk us through its cringe-inducing characters
MOVIE PLAYLIST
THE CRITIC AND SCALA RADIO PRESENTER CHOOSES SCORES HE’S BEEN PLAYING ON HIS WEEKLY SHOW
THE MASTERPIESE
We reassess the greatest films of all ime, one film at a time
CAGNEY IN NUMBERS
THE 101 ON FILM’S GANGSTER NO. 1
THE RANKING
Four Empire writers. One super-producer. Tons of films. Ordered definitively.
THE TOP TEN
1 THE ROCK (1996) Helen: “With chewy, tough-guy
THE VIEING GUIDE
A deep dive into the must-see moments from the month’s big release
EMPIRE FILM PODCAST
EMPIREONLINE.COM/PODCAST
THE CULT OF KIM NEWMAN
The critic and novelist selects the month’s weirdest home-ent releases
That’ll do, pig
BONG JOON-HO on why his Criterion-approved giant-hog movie deserves a second look
THE STORY OF THE SHOT
How iconic images came to life
6 OF THE BEST
Team Empire on the month’s essential movies and TV
CLASSIC SCENE
Standout sequences from the great movies
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