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THE CLASSIC SCENE

The King Of Comedy

No./1 Inside Guillermo del Toro’s cliché-free film noir

How the director has made the genre his own with starry new thriller NIGHTMARE ALLEY

No./2 The teenagers taking on tennis GOATs

How two newcomers embraced the almighty challenge of playing the Williams sisters in KING RICHARD

No./3 Meet the Hawkeye waiting in the wings

How Hailee Steinfeld took aim as Clint Barton’s protégé in Marvel’s latest TV show

No./4 AVIAN SIDEKICKS

These feathery friends give a whole new meaning to the term ‘wing man’

No./5 An Afghan refugee who went 2D

Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen shares five favourite frames from FLEE, his striking account of one man’s escape from Afghanistan

No./6 The Witcher’s toughest hunt yet

How the hit fantasy series’ long-delayed second season really tested Henry Cavill’s mettle

No./7 Horror that goes straight for the heart

The Scream directors on a love letter to Wes Craven’s original

No./8 A double act for the ages

Joaquin Phoenix and newcomer Woody Norman on sharing the screen in comedy-drama C’MON C’MON

No./9 SLY’S MUST-BUYS

SYLVESTER STALLONE IS FLOGGING OFF HIS ICONIC PROPS AND COSTUMES IN AN AUCTION. WE HIGHLIGHT FIVE

No./10 The ex-porn star you’ll love to hate

The Florida Project director Sean Baker dares us to find the humanity in a scumbag

No./11 “I’ve been preparing for Logan Roy all my life”

BRIAN COX is back spitting insults for the new season of Succession — but a new memoir finds him in a reflective mood

No./12 Something Coen-y this way comes

How The Tragedy Of Macbeth was a Coen/Shakespeare fusion foretold

No./14 On the road to regeneration

DOCTOR WHO star Jodie Whittaker on the beginning of the end for the 13th Doctor

No./15 The ensemble cast fit for an apocalypse

Adam McKay on assembling A-listers for end-of-the-world comedy DON’T LOOK UP

No./16 How I made Home Alone my own

Home Sweet Home Alone star Archie Yates explains how he created his own spin on Kevin McCallister

No./17 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

No./18 AGATHA IS BACK!

With Agatha Harkness getting her own TV spin- off, we consult a crystal ball on how it might look

No./19 The film about Maradona that’s not about Maradona

THE HAND OF GOD turns an infamous goal into a sweeping, semi-autobiographical love letter to adolescence

No./20 HOW SQUID GAME TOOK OVER THE WORLD

TRACKING THE 13-YEAR JOURNEY FROM LOCAL REJECT TO GLOBAL HIT

PINT OF MILK

LAKE BELL Do you have a nickname? Well,

GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE

27 OCT – 19 NOV BIG SCREEN. SMALL

THE CARD COUNTER

Poker face: Oscar Isaac as gambler William Tell.

SPENCER

NATURAL LIGHT ★★★ OUT 12 NOVEMBER / CERT

LAST NIGHT IN SOHO

Starlet Sandy (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Jack (Matt Smith)

KING RICHARD

Love game: Will Smith leads as devoted father

NO TIME TO DIE

“James, what a magnificent weapon!” Etc. Gutter credit

THE HARDER THEY FALL

Trudy (Regina King), Rufus (Idris Elba) and Cherokee

PASSING

BULL ★★★★ OUT 5 NOVEMBER / CERT 18

PETITE MAMAN

Twins Joséphine and Gabrielle Sanz as Nelly and

THE LAST DUEL

DRIVE MY CAR ★★★★ OUT 19 NOVEMBER /

SUCCESSION: SEASON 3

Back in business: Kendall (Jeremy Strong) is still

INVASION

Should have booked an Uber. ★★★ OUT NOW

TANGLED UP

SPIDER-MAN:NO WAYHOME isn’t just a sequel – it’s a massive, meta, multiverse outing in which Peter Parker finds himself fighting iconic villains from past lives. As its creators tell us, this is nothing less than ‘Spider-Man: Endgame’

THE SILLIEST SIX

Unlikely to appear in No WayHome: the half-dozen daftest villains Spider-Man’s ever faced

THE CONTENDER

IN HER DIRECTORIAL DEBUT BRUISED , HALLE BERRY HEADBUTTS ,KICKS AND PUNCHES HER WAY THROUGH AVARIETY OF HUMAN OBSTACLES. BUT AS SHE TELLS US, SHE’S BEEN BATTLING TO GET WHAT SHE WANTS FOR DECADES

Perfect WORLD

They pump out wholesome romcoms at a furious rate, and you've probably not seen a single one. We invstigate the hermetically sealed, cocoa-scented world of the HALLMARK CHANNEL

DIANA DECONSTRUCTING

SPENCER presents the Princess Of Wales as a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Here, four of the film’s key players tell us how they went about unravelling an icon

THE MANY OBSESSIONS OF PAUL SCHRADER

FROM TAXI DRIVER TO AUTO FOCUS TO FIRST REFORMED, THE WRITER-DIRECTOR HAS ZEROED IN ON MEN ON THE V ERGE OF MADNESS. WITH HIS NEW DRAMA THE CARD COUNTER ON THE WAY, WE ASK SCHRADER W HY HE’S HUNG UP ON HANG-UPS

ARE YOU STILL TALKIN’ TO ME?

SCHRADER TALKS THE MOST ABSURD SEQUEL IDEA OF ALL TIME: TAXI DRIVER 2

DUCK TALES

Thirty-five years ago, George Lucas executive-produced the first-ever Marvel movie — also one of Hollywood’s most infamous bombs. We flash back to the inter-species insanity of HOWARD THE DUCK

Naked Attraction

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THE MASTERPIECE

We reassess the greatest films of all time, one film at a time

SIDNEY LUMET IN NUMBERS

↓ 1939 THE YEAR HE MADE HIS MOVIE

Debunking the myths of A Clockwork Orange

MALCOLM MCDOWELL reveals the truth behind the many legends about Stanley Kubrick’s controversial classic

THE RANKING

Four Empire writers. Ten movies. Ordered definitively

THE TOP TEN

1 GIRL, INTERRUPTED (1999) Beth: “Lisa Rowe allowed

Swining and dining

PIG director Michael Sarnoski on plotting a hog-and-food-based odyssey

MOVIE PLAYLIST

THE CRITIC AND SCALA RADIO PRESENTER CHOOSES HIS ULTIMATE CINEMATIC SOUNDTRACKS

THE CULT OF KIM NEWMAN

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

Seoul-Oh: A Fast & Furious Story

SUNG KANG and JUSTIN LIN on how Han Seoul-Oh became the unlikely breakout star of the Fast & Furious franchise

THE STORY OF THE SHORT

How iconic images came to life

6 OF THE BEST

Team Empireon the month’s essential movies