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This Week...
It's been all webchat, all the time in the Empire office for the last few days. We had Bradley Cooper drop by yesterday to talk about Limitless, his new sci-fi thriller, which saw half the staff of all the women's magazines upstairs drop by "casually" to say hello while he was here. Today it's the turn of Jamie Bell and Channing Tatum to talk about The Eagle - and no doubt there'll be another influx of visitors hoping that the pair will start demonstrating Roman fighting tactics / their dance skills. Also this week we've been gathering interviews with the stars of this week's biggest films, trying to keep a straight face during the Fast Five trailer and eating doughnuts. Well, someone has to, or they'd go to waste. Helen O'Hara
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House: The Episodic Exception To A Serial Rule
Recently, I've been catching up with the brilliant House (or, depending on how anal you want to be, House MD) and I realised something. Unlike my other cherished favourite TV shows, this one's very much a same-set-up-each-week episodic effort. What in the name of Blu-ray am I talking about? Well, allow me explain. In broad terms, TV shows can be split into two types: serialised (one big arc story) and episodic (a new adventure each week). Now, obviously many programmes overlap (hold on, we'll get to that), but personally I prefer serials. Big time. And yet House snuck under the radar, onto my considerable DVD shelving unit and into my heart... | | | |
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Naomi Watts On Fair Game
In Doug Liman's domestic espionage drama/political thriller Fair Game, Naomi Watts gets to the heart of the paradox that was/is Valerie Plame, a bright, sociable Washington housewife and mother who hides the nuts and bolts of her brave professional life from her closest friends and even her family. Evidence of the 42-year-old actress's own fearlessness should be apparent from her intention to climb the Everest of modern movie roles later this year by playing Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik's adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' (largely fictional) book Blonde: A Novel. Empire's own Damon Wise caught up with her to talk about two very different projects. | | |
|  | | Damon Wise Talks To Doug Liman
Doug Liman has had, by his own admission, a pretty extraordinary career. He began as a director of low-budget ensemble pieces so indie they were either incredibly hip (Swingers, 1996), starred the requisite quota of cool, pretty looking-to-break-out-of-TV actors (Go, 1999), or disappeared so fast they're now only available on VHS (Getting In, 1994). Then a change of gear. The Bourne Identity (2002), was not only a hit, it paved the way for a rejuvenated, post-9/11 Bond franchise. He sat down with Empire to chat about his latest spy thriller, Fair Game. Just don't call it a political movie. |
|  | | What We Learned From The Fast Five Trailer
The Fast Five trailer hit, and boy oh boy if the latest instalment in the Fast & Furious franchise doesn't look like a hilariously over-the-top slice of deep-fried action gold. Sure, it's going to clog up your arteries and doesn't exactly qualify as movie health food, but it does look like it packs in more kiss, kiss and bang, bang than any ten normal films. Whether the film lives up to this wonderfully on-the-nose trailer remains to be seen, but we thought that this cliche-heavy effort deserved a little dissection so that we can all fully appreciate its goodness. Ladies and gentlemen, the trailer cliches of Fast Five... |
|  | | The Ultimate Shirt And Tie Picture Quiz
Watching The Company Men - a movie about American corporate culture starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones - we noticed something. All these businessmen... they wear a lot of suits, don't they? Whenever they're screwing over employees, firing strangers or dreaming of money, they're always wearing a suit and tie. Then we got to thinking about what the most famous shirt-and-tie combos in cinema were, and then suddenly we had a picture quiz on our hands, and this is the result. They're not all businessmen, not by a long shot, but they are all wearing shirts and ties. Your job today, temp? Write the movie title in the box. Easy, really. |
|  | | Bradley Cooper Webchat Transcript
Bradley Cooper, then. There's no doubt he's handsome, charming, and a pretty funny guy -- but is he man enough to withstand the barrage of questions an Empire webchat delivers? Well, as the following transcript shows, definitely. Fielding queries on topics such as sandwiches, casual theft, and WWE Raw, he proved an admirable combatant and definitely someone we'd love to ask back to Empire Towers another day. You know, if only so the Grazia girls from upstairs can faint and swoon in his ever-so-rugged presence again. Sigh... |
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Jim Butcher's Changes
Check out our feature on the 10 most unconventional detectives as well as glimpse of the latest novel by Jim Butcher featuring the hard boiled detective from Chicago Harry Dresden in his latest adventure Changes. |
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Innocent Mini Movies Competition
We recently made a little film about a superhero smoothie who saves the peckish (it was on TV). Now we'd love you to make the sequel... To enter, shoot a 30 second innocent caped superhero sequel and upload it to www.youtube.com/innocentdrinksltd by 17th April. Our special judging panel- Ben Wheatley (director), Dan Germain (creative director, innocent), Tim O'Kennedy (CEO, D&AD) and Uri Fruchtman (co-founder, Ealing Studios)- will shortlist to 5 finalists. From 25th April, the public vote to decide the winner, who wins £5000, their mini movie shown on TV, and 2 tickets to the BFI London film festival. | | | |
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Some concrete from a car park used in Get Carter. This will NOT DO. Next week we want chocolate, cake and a pony. | | | |
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Battle: Los Angeles 
Pretty much cardboard, down to the heroic patriotic speeches, and less distinctive even than last year's scarcely stellar Skyline, which trashed the same city. Things blow up good and Eckhart is a classier actor than his role warrants, but we've all been here before. | | | |
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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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The Kid 
Strong performances by Rupert Friend and Augustus Prew as the grown-up and teenage Kevin give Moran's rite-of-passage tale genuine emotional ballast. A worthy follow-up to Telstar. | | | |
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