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DISPATCHES

CHRIS HEWITT HAD AN AUDIENCE WITH JAMES CAMERON

LETTER OF THE MONTH

HALF A CINEWORLD AWAY We dream of an

THE BIG QUESTION

THIS MONTH WE ASKED: AFTER SATURDAY NIGHT, WHAT

COMMENT

ON THE MINECRAFT TRAILER: Looks fun. Don’t mine(craft)

PREVIOUSLY, IN EMPIRE...

TERMINATOR 2 EMPIRE COVER SEPTEMBER 1991

WELCOME

I WAS HAUNTED by The Terminator. Back in

Lights , camera, chaos

JASON REITMAN ON BOTTLING BEDLAM FOR HIS SNL LOV E LETTER SATURDAY NIGHT

How to reboot Christmas

RED ONE FILMMAKER JAKE KASDAN ON REVAMPING ALL THAT IS MERRY AND BRIGHT

A MODERN MOTHERHOOD MOVIE BARES ITS FANGS

MARIELLE HELLER ON HOW PARENTING INFORMED HER SURREAL DRAMA NIGHTBITCH

CALL DC BY YOUR NAME

LUCA GUADAGNINO IS RUMOURED TO BE MAKING A FILM FOR THE SUPERHERO STUDIO. HERE’S WHAT COULD BE IN STORE

The film Trump couldn’t stop

ALI ABBASI AND SEBASTIAN STAN ON THEIR PROVOCATIVE ORIGIN STORY, THE APPRENTICE

On A Role

THOMASIN McKENZIE IS JEAN PURDY

A MASTER VOYAGER MAKES HER HOMECOMING

AULI‘I CRAVALHO ON REPRISING A CHARACTER CLOSE TO HER HEART FOR MOANA 2

THE DOCUMENTARY THAT TIME-TRAVELS

WHY ASIF KAPADIA HAD TO MAKE DYSTOPIAN-DOCUDRAMA 2073

A beastly new vision bursts forth

HOW WOLF MAN DIRECTOR LEIGH WHANNELL BROUGHT AN AGE-OLD MONSTER INTO THE MODERN ERA

THE PIPELINE

MY NOTES ON MARS Greta Lee and

Here’s looking at you, Dad

STEPHEN BOGART SPEAKS FIRST-HAND ABOUT AN INTIMATE NEW DOCUMENTARY ON HIS FAMOUS FATHER

ARE STANDING OVATIONS GETTING OUT OF HAND?

WITH FULSOME APPLAUSE NOW A FILM-FESTIVAL STAPLE, WE LOOK AT THE TRADITION'S HISTORY

ON OUR MINDS

Alamy, Imago, Getty Images, Giorgio Zucchiatti/La Biennale di

Inside Ben Wheatley’s elderly apocalypse

EMPIRE GOES ON SET OF HIS NEW OLD VS. YOUNG HORROR SERIES, GENERATION Z

NEED TO KNOW

GET UP TO SPEED ON... THE RUNNING MAN

Anna Kendrick draws power from her past

THE ACTOR MAKES HER DIRECTORIAL DEBUT WITH WOMAN OF THE HOUR, A BOLD TALE OF MALE VIOLENCE

THE MONTHLY MIXTAPE

EMPIRE MIXMASTER AMON WARMANN SELECTS THIS MONTH'S ESSENTIAL TUNES

IMAGINE A FRESH TAKE

DOCUMENTARY ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON A WORLD-FAMOUS COUPLE

The Spotlight

THE INDUSTRY ACTOR SETS HIS SIGHTS ON GOTHAM, HOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND

LIVE, LAUGH, LFF

TEAM EMPIRE HAND-PICK OUR HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS YEAR’S LONDON FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

He was our father

REMEMBERING JAMES EARL JONES, THE PICTURES’ ULTIMATE PATERNAL PRESENCE

HOW MUCH IS A PINK OF MILK?

Diego Luna

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX

FILMS, TV, BOOKS, GAMES - ALL THE BIG RELEASES, RATED

THE OUTRUN

SAOIRSE RONAN TAKES THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

THE PENGUIN

COLIN FARRELL RETURNS TO OZ

CUCKOO

★★★ OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 103

THE CROW

★ OUT NOW / CERT 18 / 111

HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN

TIME TO GET OUT THE RED MARKER PEN

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER – SEASON 2

ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY WALK INTO A SECOND SEASON

LEE

KATE WINSLET FINDS A LIFE BEHIND THE LENS

WOLFS

INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO A-LISTERS

TRANSFORMERS ONE

★★★ OUT 11 OCTOBER / CERT PG /

SPEAK NO EVIL

★★★★ OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 110

THE APPRENTICE

VERY FINE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES (OF THE CAMERA)

BOX OFFICE POISON

WELCOME TO THE FLOP HOUSE

DEAR ORSON WELLES

★★★★ AUTHOR MARK COUSINS Mark Cousins simply doesn’t

GHIBLIVERSE: STUDIO GHIBLI BEYOND THE FILMS

★★★★ AUTHORS JAKE CUNNINGHAM, MICHAEL LEADER The fifth

GODZILLA: THE OFFICIAL COOKBOOK

★★ AUTHOR KAYCE BAKER Have themed cookbooks gone

DISCLAIMER

ANY RESEMBLANCE TO A STANDARD THRILLER IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL

STAR WARS OUTLAWS

MEET A NEW KIND OF SCRUFFYLOOKING NERF HERDER

WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2

★★★★ PC, PS5, XBOX SERIES S/X If you’re

ASTRO BOT

★★★★★ PS5 Expanding on the DualSense controller tech

BLACK MYTH: WUKONG

★★★★ PC, PS5 Based on Chinese classic Journey

BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE

IT’S SHOWTIME! AGAIN!

MEGALOPOLIS

IS IT AN OFFER YOU CAN’T REFUSE?

WILL AND HARPER

★★★★ OUT 27 SEPTEMBER (NETFLIX) / CERT 15

TIMESTALKER

A ROMCOM WHERE HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

A DIFFERENT MAN

PREPARE FOR A FILM THAT TRULY GOES UNDER THE SKIN

also out

HEAD TO EMPIREONLINE.COM TO READ THESE REVIES IN FULL

SETTING THE FUTURE

40 YEARS OF THE TERMINATOR

THE RIDE

AS DIRECTOR OF T2 3-D: BATTLE ACROSS TIME, COULD JOHN BRUNO BRING TERMINATORS TO LIFE? NO PROBLEMO

THE SHOW

HIRED TO WRITE THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, JOSH FRIEDMAN NEVER REALISED HOW MUCH OF HIMSELF HE'D POUR INTO IT

THE SONG

HOW T2 INSPIRED UNLIKELY, CHART-BOTHERING NOVELTY SONG 'I'LL BE BACK', MASTERMINDED IN LEIGH-ON-SEA. COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO DANCE

ACTIVATING ARNOLD

>> WRITING EXCLUSIVELY FOR EMPIRE. THE TERMINATOR PRODUCER GALE ANNE HURD  RECALLS HOW SHE HAD  A FRONT-ROW SEAT  FOR THE MAKING OF  A MEGASTAR

NEW CONTINENT. NEW ADVENTURE. SAME SANDWICH.

Paddington films are a lot like marmalade

NO IFS, NO BUTTIES…

FORGET MARMALADE — RANKING THE GREATEST MOVIE SANDWICHES

STARTING OVER

IN EMILIA PÉREZ, A BRUTAL CARTEL LEADER BEGINS A NEW LIFE AS A MUCH HAPPIER WOMAN. AND FOR THE CAST AND C R EW, THE FILM WA S AN OPPORTUNITY TO PLUNGE INTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY

INTO THE BREACH

WITH HIS NEW WORLD WAR II DRAMA BLITZ, UNCOMPROMISING FILMMAKER STEVE MCQUEEN IS ONCE MORE TACKLING WEIGHTY, VITAL MATERIAL. HE TELLS US ABOUT HIS ONGOING MISSION TO BREAK NEW GROUND

CAPE OF NO HOPE

CHARTING THE CHAOS OF A FAILING CINEMATIC UNIVERSE, THE FRANCHISE IS THE THICK OF IT IN SPANDEX. EMPIRE JOINS DYNAMIC DUO SAM MENDES AND ARMANDO IANNUCCI ON SET AS THEY SKEWER THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF SUPERHERO FILMMAKING

AIM FOR THE HEART

JOHN WOO HAD DECIDED: HE WAS DONE WITH THE BIRDS

HARDEST BOILED

FOUR MOMENTS WHERE WOO PUSHED THE ENVELOPE, THEN

The road to hell

HOW THE HITCHER DEFIED CRITICS (ONE IN PARTICULAR) TO BECOME A MODERN CULT CLASSIC

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes

DIRECTOR WES BALL ON THE KEY MOMENTS OF HIS APEQUEL

Possession

WHY ANDRZEJ ŻUŁAWSKI’S HORROR MOVIE WON’ T LET YOU GO

PICKS OF THIS MONTH

1 THELMA (OUT 21 OCTOBER, DVD/BR) Josh

In pursuit of Happiness

DIRECTOR TODD SOLONDZ REVISITS HIS CONTROVERSIAL CLASSIC

Time Capsule David Morrissey

THE VERSATILE ACTOR ON KEY IMAGES FROM HIS CAREER

Will Smith movies

FOUR EMPIRE WRITERS. ONE BAD BOY. WILL THEY RIDE OR DIE?

THE TOP TEN

1 MEN IN BLACK (1997) 2 ALI

“A FILM BY ROWDY HERRINGTON”

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

CRYPT KEEPERS

KIM’S PICKS OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

The Ultimate Empire Quiz

THE ALIEN FRANCHISE

THE BIG CHOICE Rain Man

Shawn Levy: “The goodbye scene with Barry