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This Week...
It's been a busy week in the Empire office, with just one quick break to coo over our rather fantastic new Captain America cover. Cap is leading out a sci-fi extravaganza, with features inside on everything from Source Code to Sucker Punch and from Battle: Los Angeles to Battle Beyond The Stars and Battlestar Galactica. Oh, and if you like your magazines all-singing and all-interactive, you'll want to check out the iPad edition to boot. On the website, we've had the brilliant William Fichtner in to webchat about Drive Angry 3D and the extremely funny Will Arnett and Mitch Hurwitz to talk Arrested Development. And without wishing to spoil any surprises, we have two more very exciting webchats coming up next week. Keep an eye on Empire Online to find out more. Helen O'Hara
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Damon Wise's Sundance
Once again, our Damon Wise was out at the Sundance Film Festival to see the latest and greatest in the world of independent and left-field filmmaking. He blogged his way through the full 10-day festival, watching a slew of great (and occasionally not-so-great) films to give you a heads-up on what's to see in the next year or so. Here's the complete account of his journey, and your guide to what's upcoming. | | | |
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22 Incredibly Shocking Oscars Injustices
Christopher Nolan fans might disagree, but the Academy has done a pretty top-notch job of picking the strongest candidates to slug it out at the Kodak this February – but it hasn't always done quite as well with its picks. In fact, there've been years when the runners and riders seemed to be picked via some kind of elaborate game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Think about the giddy adventure of Raiders Of The Lost Ark losing out to Chariots Of Fire which, stirring as it was, was really just a two-hour long reason to go for a jog. Not to mention Alfred Hitchcock never winning a single Academy Award. Not one. Then there's It's A Wonderful Life getting pipped by The Best Years Of Our Lives, Apocalypse Now taking a slow-mo sword swipe from Kramer Vs. Kramer, and Citizen Kane losing to, erm... we forget. But those are minor injustices compared to some of the other kahunas we've identified and, in our own small way, rectified. | | |
|  | | Friending Andrew Garfield
It's a good time to be Andrew Garfield. The 26 year-old Brit (albeit one born in the US, to British/American parents) is one of the finest young actors in the business, and finally - after turns in the likes of Lions For Lambs, Boy A and the first part of the Red Riding trilogy - he's hitting it big. Not only did he break hearts in Mark Romanek's affecting Never Let Me Go, he bagged a small role in an upcoming flick called... Spider-Man. Not sure what it's about. Probably a sequel to Arachnophobia. And then there was the film that, in all likelihood, put him on Sony's Spidey radar: David Fincher's The Social Network, in which he played wronged Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin. With the film coming out on DVD next week, we caught up with him to talk multiple takes and Michael J. Fox. |
|  | | Who Is Henry Cavill?
Just last night it was announced that Henry Cavill will play the lead in Zack Snyder's Superman: The Man Of Steel. For those of you who haven't been paying attention, who is this Cavill guy and how did he get the chance to don the big blue tights of justice? Well, here's your handy cut-out-and-keep guide to the man that everyone's suddenly talking about… |
|  | | The Ten Buzz Films Of Sundance
Our Damon Wise heads to Sundance every year, armed with only a notebook, some warm undies and an iron liver, to bring you all the news on this most credible of festivals and its breakout films. This year, after watching a huge number of films during the 10-day Festival, Damo has compiled his choice of the ten best efforts to watch out for, the films that will be burning up our screen over the next year or so. Read on, and learn enough to sound knowledgeable about the coolest films of the next twelve months or so... |
|  | | Video: Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough On Brighton Rock
Rowan Joffe's adaptation of Brighton Rock transports the Boulting brothers classic noir to the mid-'60s, a suitably punchy setting where gang violence plays out against a backdrop of mods and rockers. Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough step into the worn shoes of Pinkie and Rose, and the pair talked us through a seaside shoot that - surprisingly - also played out with its own cast of real-life mods and rockers. Director Joffe, meanwhile, explained the pressures of re-adaptating a Graham Greene classic - cinema's equivalent of a don't-look-down experience. |
|  | | 15 Minutes With David O. Russell
David O. Russell has having a pretty good 2011 so far. Seven nominations from the academy, bumper takings at the box office and the chance to take PS3 gaming hit Uncharted to the big screen, featuring, it's been rumoured, the likes of Mark Wahlberg and Robert De Niro. So when we got the opportunity to talk with him on the phone for a quarter of an hour, we jumped at the chance. And when we were done with that, we picked up the phone. Because we're professionals like that. |
|  | | 8 Alternative Reasons Why Pixar Are Awesome
Pixar Animation celebrates its 25th birthday and to celebrate we've corralled together some of the finest viral tributes to the studio's quarter century of movie magic. We imagine Pixar should have this whole throwing-a-party business sewn up, what with a few bajillion dollars to spend on cake and a ready supply of balloons, but here's our way of saying happy birthday to Emeryville's finest. |
|  | | The Ultimate Underwater Picture Quiz
Underwater… no-one can hear you scream. They might notice the bubbles jumping out your mouthhole, the frantic thrashing, and the general background watery noise of your grunting, but really, screaming is a bad idea. You see, water is a dangerous thing, and with anything dangerous, filmmakers since time immemorial have been drawn to it, if only to put their actors in hazardous places and give them the bends when they don't hit their marks. So to celebrate just that (and James Cameron's latest underwater adventure, Sanctum 3D) we've compiled a very watery picture quiz. Your quest: name that movie, and don't get too wet. |
|  | | Crispin Glover In Conversation
We asked him a handful of questions. He emailed us several thousand words. Actor, writer, recording artist, Letterman-terroriser, and now director Crispin Glover has brought new meaning to the phrase "self-distribution": he'll be bringing his latest film directly to you, when he undertakes a UK tour. |
|  | | William Fichtner Webchat
William Fichtner - 'Bill' to his pals - is known in these parts as Mr. 27%, a character actor whose talent and charisma improves any movie he's in by at least... well, you can guess the rest. This isn't in any way to disparage an actor of serious class, of course, as his versatility has seen him play good guys (Armageddon), bad guys (Go) and a bit of both (Prison Break). He's rapidly becoming one of Hollywood's big budget go-to guys, and lights up the 3D car chase flick, Drive Angry. He stopped by to field Empire readers' questions on everything from The Dark Knight to Eric Bana's passion for beef wagons. And he didn't even try to sell us Amway. |
|  | | Video: Sanctum 3D Interviews
This week James Cameron's pet project, Sanctum 3D, splashes down in cinemas, bringing to bear all that mighty Avatar technology and ginormous 3D cameras on a underwater adventure so tense it'll have you gnawing your cinema seat. It's based on the actual experiences of writer and scuba aficionado Andrew Wight, who found himself trapped in cave as vicious xenomorphs picked off his friends one by one. Unsure if we'd read the correct press notes, we approached the chance to talk to Sanctum's cast and crew a little gingerly. Luckily they set us straight and shared the background to the nerve-jangling scuba thriller. | | | |
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Tempers flare up as Ali and Martin discuss who gets to keep these rather gorgeous posters for The Fighter (out this week, fact-fans). But you're still our favourite Sanam, thanks! | | | |
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The Fighter 
The Fighter might tread the well-worn route of almost every sports movie before it, but two very different but equally powerful performances combine to deliver an exhilarating fight-flick that, like its scrappy central character, is impossible not to root for. | | | |
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This Week's Video Trailers And Clips
Every week, our video player will update to show trailers and clips from the week's movie releases listed above. | | |
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Winter's Bone
A vivid reworking of Daniel Woodrell's novel that brings the book's conflicted heroine to searing life in a piece of unhurried filmmaking too rarely seen these days. | | | |
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