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DIRECTORS SPILL THE BEANS ON THE YEAR’S HOTTEST MOVIES

Empire

WELCOME

DISPATCHES • TEAM EMPIRE ON A FEW OF OUR HIGH POINTS THIS MONTH

COMMENT

Kathryn Bigelow’s rallying cry • HOW POLITICAL THRILLER A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE BROUGHT THE DIRECTOR BACK TO FILMMAKING

Notes on a scandal • AYO EDEBIRI AND ANDREW GARFIELD ON THEIR PROVOCATIVE NEW DRAMA AFTER THE HUNT

“I want to see print journalism romanticised again” • BETH WEBB ON WHY THE BYLINE SHOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO SCREENS

The sky’s the limit • THE AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH STUNT TEAM ON DEFYING GRAVITY WITH ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST BATTLES YET

THE PIPELINE • EIGHT PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

Frank Dillane • THE URCHIN STAR IS TURNING A NEW PAGE

WHERE NEXT FOR THE BIG BALD BAD? • MAN OF TOMORROW PROMISES THE RETURN OF AN AMPED-UP LEX LUTHOR. HOW WORRIED SHOULD SUPERMAN BE?

This time it’s personal • HOW SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE IS GOING BIGGER, BOLDER AND OLDER

GET READY TO GO THE DISTANCE • ROCKY TURNED A NOBODY INTO A STAR. HERE’S WHAT WE WANT TO SEE IN THE FILM ABOUT ITS MAKING, I PLAY ROCKY

DO YOUR BLEAK HOUSE BIDDING • GUILLERMO DEL TORO IS AUCTIONING OFF PART OF HIS LEGENDARY PERSONAL ARCHIVE. HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS

The unsung heroes raising the roof • EMPIRE DIVES INTO THE WILD AND WEIRD WORLD OF LOOPING, A SPECIALIST FORM OF VOICE ACTING

NEED TO KNOW • GET UP TO SPEED ON… HIGHLANDER

ETHAN HAWKE IS LORENZ HART • THE ACTOR PLAYS A LEGENDARY LYRICIST IN RICHARD LINKLATER’S BLUE MOON

THE COPPOLA DOC THAT CONFRONTS THE CHAOS • MIKE FIGGIS ON HIS FRONT-ROW SEAT TO THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF MAKING MEGALOPOLIS

REFWENDS OF THE SITH • THE INBETWEENERS’ SIMON BIRD HAS JOINED STAR WARS: STARFIGHTER. HERE ARE THE CROSSOVER EVENTS WE’RE DYING TO SEE…

Kate Winslet takes her shot • THE ACTOR MAKES HER DIRECTORIAL DEBUT WITH THE EMOTIONAL, PERSONAL FESTIVE DRAMA GOODBYE JUNE

THE MVP • MEET OUR HERO OF THE MONTH

A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP WITH A TWIST • OSGOOD PERKINS FINDS THE DARKER SIDE OF LOVE IN NEW HORROR KEEPER

Getting to the heart of Marty • REBECCA MILLER ON CRAFTING AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF AN ICONIC DIRECTOR IN DOCU-SERIES MR. SCORSESE

THE HELL-FIGHTING HOUND MAKING HEADLINES • HOW GOOD BOY’S FILMMAKER COLLARED A CANINE STAR FOR HIS BUZZY HORROR DEBUT

ON OUR MINDS • DAFT MUSINGS FROM THE STRANGE BRAINS OF TEAM EMPIRE BILL

Your ticket to Hollywood

Brett Goldstein • THE ALL OF YOU STAR LOVES NICHE CRISPS AND A GOOD MOVIE CRY

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER • PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON IN ‘EXCELLENT MOVIE’ SHOCKER

THE LONG WALK • KING OF THE ROAD

STEVE

THE ROSES

THE SMASHING MACHINE • IF YOU SMEEEEELL WHY THE ROCK IS CRYING

AFTER THE HUNT • A #METOO THRILLER WITH NO EASY ANSWERS

THE LOST BUS • PAUL GREENGRASS TAKES ON A REAL-LIFE INFERN0

SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES • GOODBYE, CLEVELAND!

HONEY DON’T!

ON SWIFT HORSES

HIM • A PSYCHOLOGICAL-SPORTS-BASED-HORROR-THRILLER (ANOTHER ONE)

THE GREENGRASS PAPERS • THE PAUL IDENTITY

URCHIN • IS THERE ANYTHING HARRIS DICKINSON CAN’T DO?

TALES OF THE SHIRE • A SECOND-BREAKFAST SIMULATOR

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