COMMENT

LETTER OF THE MONTH POWER PLAY Had to

WELCOME

THE GHOSTBUSTERS HAVE seen some wild sights over

The sci-fi series vaulting into the zeitgeist

THE CREATORS OF FALLOUT ON ADAPTING THE EPIC, ECCENTRIC VIDEO-GAME SAGA FOR THE SMALL SCREEN

Ava DuVernay’s ambitious next act

THE FILMMAKER ON THE CHALLENGING PROCESS BEHIND HER LINE-BLURRING NEW FILM, ORIGIN

A TOILET CLEANER’S TENDER TALE

WIM WENDERS ON WHY A WC WORKER MADE THE PERFECT LEAD FOR UPCOMING DRAMA

The Spotlight Dominic Sessa

THE HOLDOVERS’ BREAKOUT STAR ON GRADUATING FROM SCHOOL TO THE BIG SCREEN

REVISITING A GANGSTER’S PARADISE

THE STARS OF THE SEXY BEAST PREQUEL SERIES ON REBOOTING A CLASSIC CRIMINAL DOUBLE ACT

The making of a foul-mouthed friendship

WICKED LITTLE LETTERS CO-STARS OLIVIA COLMAN AND JESSIE BUCKLEY ON THEIR SWEET AND SWEARY DOUBLE ACT

The new way of the samurai

PRESTIGE TV IS HEADING EAST, WITH AN AMBITIOUS NEW TAKE ON CLASSIC YARN SHŌGUN

“Fasten your seatbelts: a whole new TARDIS is in flight”

DEVOUT FAN LILLIAN CRAWFORD ON DOCTOR WHO ENTERING A GROUNDBREAKING ERA

On A Role IAN McKELLEN AS HAMLET

THE SHAKESPEAREAN STALWART ON REVISITING THE SKULL-WIELDING PRINCE IN HIS EIGHTIES

SALUTING A LEGENDARY COMEDY CAPTAIN

REMEMBERING THE LATE ANDRE BRAUGHER AS CAPTAIN HOLT, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE’S MVP

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN’S TV KINGDOM EXPANDS

WE BREAK DOWN WHERE THE GAME OF THRONES FRANCHISE IS HEADING NEXT

A historic slice of ruff and tumble

WE VISIT THE SET OF JULIANNE MOORE-FRONTED PERIOD DRAMA WITH A DIFFERENCE, MARY & GEORGE

NEED TO KNOW

GET UP TO SPEED ON DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN

Time travel with a Kubrick kick

ALICE LOWE ON HER COSMIC, CENTURY-SPANNING SOPHOMORE FILM TIMESTALKER

TURNING A CHILDHOOD CHUM INTO A FRIGHTFUL  FIEND

IMAGINARY DIRECTOR JEFF WADLOW ON MAKING A FRIENDLY FACE SCARY

Guy Ritchie takes on TV

AS THE DIRECTOR MAKES HIS SERIAL DEBUT WITH THE GENTLEMEN, HE TELLS US WHY THE SMALL SCREEN IS CALLING

THE PIPELINE

EIGHT PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

Can film and TV solve racism?

ELLEN E. JONES, AUTHOR OF NEW BOOK SCREEN DEEP, WEIGHS IN ON ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S HEAVIEST ISSUES

REMEMBERING A ’70S HOLLYWOOD HEARTTHROB

THE LATE RYAN O’NEAL’S ON-SCREEN LEGACY WA S FORGED THROUGH A WINNING STREAK OF HITS

ON OUR MINDS

DAFT MUSINGS FROM THE WARPED MINDS OF TEAM EMPIRE

How Much ls A pint Of Milk? Steve -O

THE JACKASS STAR PAUSES HIS EXTREME PRANKS TO TAKE OUR EXISTENTIAL QUIZ

THE HOLDOVERS

GET READY FOR THE GRUMPIEST CHRISTMAS HERO SINCE  EBENEZER

AMERICAN FICTION

Author ‘Monk’ Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) has a novel

THE COLOR PURPLE

THE BOOK-TURNED-FILM-TURNED-MUSICAL-TURNED-FILM-MUSICAL

REACHER: SEASON 2

★★★★ OUT NOW (PRIME VIDEO) / EPISODES VIEWED

JACKDAW

★★★ OUT 26 JANUARY / CERT 15 /

ECHO

Alaqua Cox means business as the MCU’s newest

THE ZONE OF INTEREST

JONATHAN GLAZER’S UNORTHODOX, UNSETTLING LOOK AT THE HOLOCAUST

MIGRATION

IS ILLUMINATION’S LATEST DUCK SOUP — OR IS IT FOR THE BIRDS?

MEAN GIRLS

GET IN, LOSERS. WE’RE GOING TO SEE THE LATEST MUSICAL REBOOT

SILENT NIGHT

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THE END WE START FROM

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THE IRON CLAW

Keeping it in the family: the Von Erich

HOW COPPOLA BECAME  CAGE

THIS HERE BOOK IS A SYMBOL OF MY INDIVIDUALITY AND MY BELIEF IN PERSONAL FREEDOM

ARGYLLE

★★★ AUTHOR ELLY CONWAY Argylle is a confusing

THE MCU: AN OFFICIAL TIMELINE

★★★ AUTHORS ANTHONY BREZNICAN, AMY RATCLIFFE, REBECCA THEODORE-VACHON

LIFE’S WORK

Alamy ★★★★ AUTHOR DAVID MILCH David Milch is

ALL OF US STRANGERS

Just the two of us: Harry (Paul Mescal)

AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA

PRAY TO MOTHER EYWA THAT WE GET A

HAVE A NICE DEATH

★★★★ PC, SWITCH, PS4/5, XBOX This quirky side-scroller

WARHAMMER 40,000: ROGUE TRADER

★★★ PC, PS5, XBOX In the grim darkness

DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: THE DARK PRINCE

★★★ SWITCH A spin-off from the core Dragon

AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM

Arthur (Jason Momoa) with his trusty trident; But

ORIGIN

AVA DUVERNAY’S UNCONVENTIONAL, EMOTIONAL STORY OF INJUSTICE ★★★★

MERRY LITTLE BATMAN

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ANYONE BUT YOU

★★ OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 103

TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY

Here: It’s snow joke — Jodie Foster and

WHAT IF…?: SEASON 2

New hero Kahhori (voiced by Devery Jacobs). THE

BACK ON THE BEAT

GHOSTS: BE AFRAID. AFTER TEASING US IN AFTERLIFE, THE PARANORMAL OGS ARE BACK, TEAMING UP WITH THE NEW BREED TO BATTLE SOME FEARSOME — AND FROSTBITTEN — UNFAMILIAR FOES IN GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE. PROTON PACKS AT THE READY…

ERNIE HUDSON IS WINSTON ZEDDEMORE

Winston and the other ‘OG’ Ghostbusters only appeared

DAN AYKROYD IS RAY STANTZ

Your family’s fascination with ghosts dates back to

ANNIE POTTS IS JANINE MELNITZ

How did you react when you heard Janine

BILL MURRAY IS PETER VENKMAN

JASON REITMAN, CO-WRITER AND PRODUCER OF FROZEN EMPIRE, WRITES EXCLUSIVELY FOR EMPIRE ABOUT WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK WITH — AND BE FRIENDS WITH — A GHOSTBUSTING LEGEND

THE OFF-ROADERS

AFTER DECADES OF MAKING CLASSIC FILMS WITH HIS BROTHER, ETHAN COEN HAS TEAMED UP WITH HIS WIFE TRICIA COOKE FOR WILD CRIME-CAPER DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS

SOUL REBEL

VARIOUS HOLLYWOOD HOT-SHOTS HAVE TRIED AND FAILED TO MAKE A BIG-SCREEN BIOPIC OF REGGAE'S GREATEST SUPERSTAR, BUT NOW, BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE HAS ARRIVED. DIRECTOR REINALDO MARCUS GREEN AND HIS CAST TELL US HOW THEY FINALLY FOUND THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH

THE OUT SIDER

FROM HER DEBUT JUNO TO HER NEW HORROR-COMEDY LISA FRANKENSTEIN, DIABLO CODY HAS ALWAYS CREATED CHARACTERS WHO DON’T QUITE FIT IN. JUST LIKE THE SCREENWRITER HERSELF

“Between the poles of slavery and being the POTUS are a million stories we haven’t told”

CORD JEFFERSON’S SATIRICAL DRAMA AMERICAN FICTION TAKES CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK PEOPLE TO TASK. HERE, THE FILMMAKER RECOUNTS THE PERSONAL, PASSIONATE JOURNEY HE TOOK TO MAKE IT HAPPEN

WEST WORLD

A shrewd businesswoman, a canny self-publicist, a shining star — MAE WEST had it all. Here’s how she played the Hollywood game on her own terms — and won

That’s a wrap

A FRESH LOOK AT HOME ENTERTAINMENT

The Creator

DIRECTOR GARETH EDWARDS ON HIS STUNNING SCI-FI

Blow-Up

THE EMPIRE MASTERPIECE

The unusual suspects

WRITER MICHAEL GREEN ON THE CHARACTERS OF A HAUNTING IN VENICE. MAJOR SPOILERS ABOUND!

The films of Danny Boyle

CHOOSE A GREAT BRITISH DIRECTOR. CHOOSE FOUR EMPIRE WRITERS. CHOOSE RANKING HIS FILMS

THE TOP TEN

1 28 DAYS LATER (2002) 2 TRAINSPOTTING (1996) 3

The final McCall?

EQUALIZER 3 WRITER RICHARD WENK ON THE PAST — AND POSSIBLE FUTURE — OF THE ACTION FRANCHISE

KUMAIL NANJIANI

THE ACTOR/COMEDIAN ON HIS CREDIT IN JAMES GUNN’S THE SUICIDE SQUAD

TALES FROM KIM’S CRYPT

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

CRYPT KEEPERS

KIM'S PICK OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL

Time Capsule George MacKay

THE FEMME STAR LOOKS BACK AT HIS LIFE IN PICTURES

The Ultimate Empire Quiz

EVERY MONTH, WE WILL TEST YOUR MOVIE KNOWLEDGE. ARE YOU READY?

WIN!

FOUR NEW CRITERION TITLES

Sense And Sensibility

THE BREAKFAST SCENE