NICK DE SEMLYEN

Creative Director CHRIS LUPTON Photography Director JOANNA MORAN

DISPATCHES

TEAM EMPIRE ON A FEW OF OUR HIGH POINTS THIS MONTH

COMMENT

LETTER OF THE MONTH WITH THUNDEROUS APPLAUSES I’ve

PREVIOUSLY, IN EMPIRE...

WINONA RYDER ON THE VERY FIRST EMPIRE COVER JULY 1989

WELCOME

WHEN DOES SUMMER start? It is a question

Making the perfect organism

HOW FEDE ÁLVAREZ FUSED TWO MOVIES TO CREATE HIS IDEAL XENOMORPH STORY, ALIEN: ROMULUS

Inside the evolution of the Oscars

EMPIRE CHATS EXCLUSIVELY WITH ACADEMY HEADS JANET YANG AND BILL KRAMER ABOUT THE AWARD SHOW’S FUTURE

NEED TO KNOW

GET UP TO SPEED ON… 28 YEARS LATER

On A Role

SIENNA MILLER AS FRANCES KITTREDGE

ACTION AND REACTION

HOW THE FALL GUY HAS SHONE A SPOTLIGHT ON TWO VETERAN STUNT-GUYS

GETTING RATTY

HOW RATATOUILLE KEEPS LEAVING BITE MARKS ON POP CULTURE

The trio taking on the Taliban

MALALA YOUSAFZAI, JENNIFER LAWRENCE AND SAHRA MANI ON THEIR BOLD DOCUMENTARY, BREAD & ROSES

THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING SANDS

A HANDY EXPLAINER FOR DUNE: PROPHECY, THE TV SPIN-OFF THAT WILL DELVE INTO A SHADOWY ORDER

Brushing up on Big foot

JESSE EISENBERG AND RILEY KEOUGH GUIDE US THROUGH THEIR BIZARRE NEW MOVIE, SASQUATCH SUNSET

The Spotlight Taylour Paige

BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F’ S NEW BLOOD BREAKS DOWN HER HOLLYWOOD PAST AND FUTURE

GALACTUS VS FINCHY

THE FANTASTIC FOUR’S GALACTUS WILL BE PLAYED BY RALPH INESON. HERE’S HOW HE COMPARES TO INESON’S OTHER ICONIC VILLAIN, THE OFFICE SALES REP CHRIS FINCH

Roland Emmerich maximises Ancient Rome

HOLLYWOOD’S MOST BOMBASTIC DIRECTOR MAKES HIS TV DEBUT WITH THE EPIC THOSE ABOUT TO DIE

FINDING SANCTUARY IN THE SMALL SCREEN

I SAW THE TV GLOW DIRECTOR JANE SCHOENBRUN ON TELLING THE STORIES THEY WANT TO SEE

ON OUR MINDS

DAFT MUSINGS FROM THE WARPED MINDS OF TEAM EMPIRE

Middle-earth gets a glow-up

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER IS ABOUT TO UNLEASH MAGICAL-RING MAYHEM

The secrets of a troubling triptych

YORGOS LANTHIMOS BREAKS DOWN THE CHAPTERS OF HIS ANGSTY ANTHOLOGY MOVIE, KINDS OF KINDNESS

CABINET IN THE WOODS

THE DIRECTORS OF RUMOURS ON MAKING POLITICAL SATIRE WITH A DIFFERENCE

CARTOON CRIBS

THE LATEST PROMO TREND? TAKING ANIMATED ABODES AND TURNING THEM INTO REAL-LIFE AIRBNBS

Fighting fire with fire

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON’ S EMMA D’ARCY AND OLIVIA COOKE ON HOW THEIR ON-SCREEN RIVALRY IS HEATING UP IN SEASON 2

“Comedy sequels often feel like an extended Comic Relief sketch”

TOM ELLEN ON WHY SPINAL TAP II SHOULD BEWARE THE CURSE OF THE CAMEO -PACKED FOLLOW-UP

From font to fairy tale

PROBLEMISTA’S JULIO TORRES ON HIS UNIQUE BRAND OF COMEDY

THE MONTHLY ΜΙΧΤΑΡΕ

EMPIRE MIXMASTER AMON WARMANN SELECTS THIS MONTH'S ESSENTIAL TUNES

A HORROR THAT REALLY GETS UNDER THE SKIN

CORALIE FARGEAT BREAKS DOWN THE INSPIRATIONS FOR HER BARMY SHOCKER

“Nobody in Hollywood knew as much about making movies”

DIRECTOR JOE DANTE WRITES FOR EMPIRE ABOUT THE LATE, GREAT

THE BATTLE FOR SCARLETT JOHANSSON’S VOICE

A RECENT DISPUTE BETWEEN THE STAR AND OPENAI IS THE LATEST TWIST IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACTORS AND AI

THE SMÉAGOL HAS LANDED

THE THINGS WE’D MOST LIKE TO SEE IN ANDY SERKIS’ UPCOMING LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIE, THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM

How Much Is A Pint Of Milk?

Isabella Rossellini

HIT MAN

RICHARD LINKLATER AND GLEN POWELL IN: MURDER, THEY WROTE

THE GARFIELD MOVIE

THE WORST MOVIE ABOUT CATS SINCE CATS

TREASURE

★★★ OUT 14 JUNE / CERT TBC /

SASQUATCH SUNSET

★★★★ OUT 14 JUNE / CERT 15 /

FANCY DANCE

WHAT LILY GLADSTONE DID NEXT

IF

★★★ OUT NOW / CERT U / 104

TAROT

★★ OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 92

THE DEAD DON’T HURT

VIGGO GOES WEST

KINDS OF KINDNESS

YORGOS LANTHIMOS’ TRILOGY OF TERROR

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

TROY Mc CLURE SADLY DID NOT MAKE THE CUT

DOCTOR WHO: SERIES 14

SPACE BABY’S DAY OUT

ERIC

★★★★ OUT NOW (NETFLIX) / EPISODES VIEWED 6

STING

★★★ OUT 31 MAY / CERT 15 /

ATLAS

THIS SCI-FI MOVIE IS ALL OVER THE MAP

YOU NEVER KNOW

MEET THE MAN BEHIND THE MOUSTACHE

THE CAVALRY TRILOGY

★★★ Bugles ahoy! This new appreciation of the

BASEBALL: THE MOVIE

★★★★ Film critic and long-suffering Mets fan Noah

THE ART OF INSIDE OUT 2

Getty Images ★★★★ Pixar’s “Art Of” books

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

WELCOME THIS FILM AT THE GATES OF VALHALLA

HAROLD HALIBUT

A UNIQUE STOP-MOTION ODDITY THAT ’S A DIFFERENT KETTLE OF FISH

HOMEWORLD 3

★★★★ PC This new instalment updates a strategy

PAPER MARIO: THE THOUSAND-YEAR DOOR

★★★★ NINTENDO SWITCH Nintendo’s charming GameCube RPG gets

SYSTEM SHOCK

★★★ PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX ONE, XBOX SERIES

THE BIKERIDERS

FEATURING THE MOST LEATHER SEEN ON SCREEN SINCE UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING

THE SYMPATHIZER

ROBERT DOWNEY JR HAS HIS DR. STRANGELOVE MOMENT

also out

HEAD TO EMPIREONLINE.COM TO READ THESE REVIEWS IN FULL

BACK FROM THE DEAD

After over three decades in purgatory, the afterlife’s sleaziest demon is rearing his manky, mouldy head once more in Tim Burton’s BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE. It’s showtime…

MEET THE SHRINKERSMEET

CREATURE-EFFECTS SUPERVISOR NEAL SCANLAN ON THE GLORY OF A SHRUNKEN HEAD

SECOND WIND

ALMOST 30 YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL CAUSED WINDY HAVOC AT THE BOX OFFICE, TWISTERS IS WHISKING US BACK TO TORNADO SEASON. PREPARE FOR A THOROUGHLY MODERN DISASTER MOVIE

STORMING IT

WE RATE THE DANGER OF NON-WINDY TWISTERS

RIOT ACT

FITTINGLY, FOR THE CONTROVERSIAL BELFAST HIP-HOP GROUP THAT THRIVES ON BREAKING RULES, THEIR ROWDY BIOPIC FOLLOWS SUIT. WELCOME TO

ANTI HEROES

IT’S THE MOST OUTLANDISH, MOST EXTREME, MOST GOBSMACKING SHOW ON TELEVISION. WITH SEASON 4 OF THE BOYS ABOUT TO AIR, WE ASK SHOWRUNNER ERIC KRIPKE WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH HIM

TRUE GRIT

WITH HIS LONG-AWAITED PASSION PROJECT HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA, KEVIN COSTNER IS GOING TRULY EPIC, WITH NOT ONE, BUT TWO FILMS - AND MORE YET TO COME. HE TELLS US WHY HE'S LITERALLY BETTING THE FARM ON IT

MAKING A NOISE

WITH ALIEN-APOCALYPSE PREQUEL A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, DIRECTOR MICHAEL SARNOSKI, THE MAN BEHIND GRIEFSPLOITATION PICTURE PIG, IS DITCHING THE FAMILY — AND SHAKING UP THE FRANCHISE

H.R. GIGER’S ALIEN

THIS MONTH

Mission debrief

DIRECTOR MATTHEW VAUGHN ASSESSES THE IMPACT OF ARGYLLE, AND LOOKS BACK ON HIS CAREER TO DATE

Yi Yi

EDWARD YANG’S MASTERFUL TAIWANESE DRAMA

PICKS OF THE MONTH

1 COLUMBO: THE 1970’S COMPLETE COLLECTION (OUT 10

Wim Wenders’ greatest hits

THE DIRECTOR OF PERFECT DAYS ON THE PERFECT SONGS OF HIS MOVIE CAREER

Joel Silver movies

FOUR EMPIRE WRITERS TACKLE THE FILMOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY ACTION PRODUCER

Bob Marley: One Love

DIRECTOR REINALDO MARCUS GREEN ON THE KEY MOMENTS OF HIS REGGAE-LEGEND BIOPIC

TIME-TWISTERS

LEGENDARY AUTHOR AND CRITIC KIM NEWMAN BRINGS US HIS UNIQUE TAKES ON CULT CINEMA

CRYPT KEEPERS

KIM'S PICK OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

Dune: Part Two

THE GIEDI PRIME GLADIATOR SEQUENCE

PETER JACKSON

LET IT BE DIRECTOR MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG ON HOW HIS FILM GOT BACK

MARILYN MONROE

The Ultimate Empire Quiz

THREE NEW BLU-RAYS

COMPITION WIN! THERE’S A GLUT of Disney Searchlight

Forrest Gump

“RUN, FORREST, RUN!”