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COMMENT OF THE MONTH

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Creative Director CHRIS LUPTON Photography Director JOANNA MORAN

LOST IN TRANSLATION

After watching the bloody but brilliant Sisu recently,

A LOVER, NOT A HADER

ON THE RELEASE OF FLAMIN’ HOT, A FILM

EMPIRE

WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO THIS MONTH

How to go toe-to-toe with DiCaprio (and De Niro)

Lily Gladstone on lighting up KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

A new kind of Coen collaboration

Ethan Coen joins forces with wife Tricia Cooke for “down and dirty” road movie DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS

The golden rules of Theater Camp

The new comedy’s co-creator, Molly Gordon, shares her secrets for putting on a show

“I want to feel like I’m being pushed in a way I never have been before”

[ THE Q&A] HARRIS DICKINSON on trading Triangle Of Sadness’ luxury yacht for a London estate in British indie Scrapper

Robert Eggers’ bloodthirst for Nosferatu

The filmmaker tells Empire about sinking his teeth into a passion project years in the making

OFF-BRAND CATS

These freaky felines are having their moment

Have post-credits stings gone too far?

Empire investigates cinema's obsession with making us stay until thevery end

When Charlie Day goes Charlie Chaplin

The comedy actor talks us through the three biggest influences on his directorial debut, Fool’s Paradise

All aboard the clown car

APOCALYPSE CLOWN’s director on bringing the circus to the end of the world

NEXT IN THE SERIES

IF YOU LOVED... SILO

THE DARK KNIGHT’S FAMILY AFFAIR

We investigate where Batman: The Brave And The Bold could take Bruce Wayne and his bloodline

Yorgos and Emma get weird(er)

POOR THINGS sees Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone take their great, grunt-fuelled collaboration to new heights

3 Body Problem

Unfiltered, uncensored, uncompromising trailer reactions from team EMPIRE

“She was bold, she was humble, she was uncompromising”

[ IN MEMORIAM] The Great Escaper director Oliver Parker remembers working with the late Glenda Jackson on her final film

Ethann Isidore

THE 16-YEAR-OLD FRENCH ACTOR PLAYS HARRISON FORD’S SIDEKICK IN INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

Why Taylor Kitsch had to take Painkiller

The actor and his frequent collaborator Peter Berg pop the lid off their opioid-crisis drama

Hollywood goes Hasbro

In a toy-box-tipping twist, Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ finale established a Hasbro Cinematic Universe. Here’s what it means

WHEN RAMBO MEETS REALITY TV

Four surreal moments from the TV show nobody saw coming, The Family Stallone

Scenes from a filmmaking friendship

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS’ Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener on their long-awaited reunion

GHOSTBUSTERS AFTER AFTERLIFE

PROTON PACKS AT THE READY: THE FOLLOW-UP TO 2021’S FRANCHISE RESTART IS COMING. HERE’S WHAT MIGHT BE MANIFESTING

BLACK IN FOCUS

AMON WARMANN chews over the main moment in Black film and TV this month

Pulling off a wild webslinging getaway

The makers of SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE go deep on their Spider Society set-piece

Barbies vs bombs

One date. Two huge movies released. We weigh up the odds in the box-office battle of Barbie and Oppenheimer

JOSH HARTNETT

When were you most starstruck? I don’t get

NIMONA

Rebel, rebel: Nimona (voiced by Chloë Grace

EXTRACTION 2

Going commando: Elite soldier Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth)

TALK TO ME

He was pretty handy at being possessed. ★★★★

SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING

★★★ OUT 7 JULY / CERT 15 /

MEDUSA

★★ OUT 14 JULY / CERT 15 /

NO HARD FEELINGS

He wasn’t convinced by her new snorkelling gear.

ELEMENTAL

Opposites attract: watery Wade and fiery Ember are

PRISONER’S DAUGHTER

Under pressure: father (Brian Cox) and daughter (Kate

BIRD BOX BARCELONA

★★ OUT 14 JULY / CERT TBC /

BROOKLYN 45

★★★★ OUT NOW (SHUDDER) / CERT TBC /

WHILE WE WATCHED

★★★★ OUT 14 JULY / CERT 15 /

MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK

★★★★ OUT 21 JULY / CERT 15 /

THE OUT-LAWS

★★ OUT 7 JULY (NETFLIX) / CERT TBC

THE EFFECTS OF LYING

★★ OUT NOW (ITVX) / CERT TBC /

TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS

Maximal leader Optimus Primal (Ron Perlman) is about

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS

It’d been one hell of an EastEnders cliffhanger.

LA SYNDICALISTE

★★★ OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 122

FLAMIN’ HOT

★★★ OUT NOW (DISNEY+) / CERT TBC /

THE FLASH

Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) gets ready for a

SECRET INVASION

Super-spy Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) comes in

THE IDOL

★★ OUT NOW (SKY/NOW) / EPISODES VIEWED 2

THE CROWDED ROOM

★★★ OUT NOW (APPLE TV+) / EPISODES VIEWED

BLACK MIRROR: SEASON 6

Nida (Anjana Vasan) has an eye for horror

THE AFTERPARTY: SEASON 2

So easy to overdo the fizz at a

ON SCREEN CHECKLIST

Your at-a-glance view of this month's review

WORLD BUILDING

IT STARTED OFF AS A STAR WARS PITCH. BUT NOW, WITH REBEL MOON, ZACK SNYDER HAS A SPRAWLING SCI-FI SAGA OF HIS OWN. WE MEET HIM ON SET AND BEYOND TO TALK ABOUT A BRAND-NEW SPACE ODYSSEY

MEN OF STEEL

REBEL MOON’S JIMMY IS NOT ZACK SNYDER’S FIRST ROBOT...

FULL THROTTLE

WHEN IS A VIDEO-GAME ADAPTATION NOT A VIDEO-GAME ADAPTATION? WHEN IT’S REAL-LIFE RACING DRAMA GRAN TURISMO, FOR WHICH DIRECTOR NEILL BLOMKAMP PUTS HIS PEDAL TO THE METAL. ON YOUR MARKS…

CATCHING THE SUN

WITH THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, SOFIA COPPOLA CREATED AN EVOCATIVE, DREAMY PIECE OF MEL ANCHOLIA THAT L AUNCHED MULTIPLE CAREERS. WITH SOME PHOTOS TO JOG THE MEMORY, SHE LOOKS BACK AT A MODERN CLASSIC

BOLT FROM THE BELT

IN A LANDSCAPE FILLED WITH FAMILIAR FACES, HE SEEMS TO HAVE COME FROM NOWHERE. BUT, AS THE TEAM BEHIND BLUE BEETLE TELL US, JAIME REYES’ BIG-SCREEN DEBUT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING — AND THE FIRST LIVE-ACTION LEADING LATINO SUPERHERO IS MORE THAN READY

BUGGING OUT

INSECT HEROES WHO HAVEN’T YET MADE IT TO THE SCREEN… AND MAY NEVER

THE BOYS

From Superbad to Sausage Party, childhood friends SETH ROGEN and EVAN GOLDBERG have been a two-man sub-genre, mixing anarchic comedy with heart.

THE WILD BUNCH

JOY RIDE

THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS

BEFORE BECOMING A KILLER CULT PHENOMENON. READY TO PLAY CLUE?

LICENCES TO KILL

CLUE WAS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN CLUEDO WENT TO

The end of his Wick?

INDISPENSABLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade

THE MASTERPIECE We reas sess the greate st fil ms of all time, one fi lm at a time

INDIANA JONES IN NUMBERS

THE INTREPID HERO’S BIG-AND-SMALL-SCREEN CAREER, BROKEN DOWN

The Lang and the short of it

STEPHEN LANG on the great directors of his career

Sylvester Stallone movies

Illustration: JaceyTHE RANKI NG Four Empire writers. One icon.

THE TOP TEN

1 ROCKY (1976) Chris: “It’s hard to top

THE CULT OF KIM NEWMAN

The critic and novelist selects the month’s weirdest home-ent releases

Back to The Lighthouse

As it gets a new 4K release, director ROBERT EGGERS revisits his sea-salt-speckled masterpiece

THE VIEWING GUIDE

A deep dive into the must-see moments from the month’s big release

6 of THE BEST

Team Empire on the month’s essential movies and TV

WIN!

FALLER OSKAR TV SPEECH AMPLIFIER

The Big Lebowski

CLASSIC SCENE Standout sequences form the great movies