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This Week...
It's been a big week in webworld, with Bridesmaids director Paul Feig and Chris O'Dowd stopping in for a webchat, more ginormous names added to the Empire Big Screen line-up, and flat-topped maniac Duke Nukem stomping in to flex biceps the size of Bolivia. Sadly the lovely Helen wasn't here to share it – she's busy shepherding eager students around the Louvre – and without her calming influence we thought it would be a good time to have a blazing row about the respective merits of Ratatouille and Cars. Luckily we cleared up the carnage before Mr Feig arrived. It wouldn't have done to have the best dressed man in Hollywood stepping around the bodies. Phil de Semlyen
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|  | | | Do you want to give me a beaver massage?
Our Lucy comes on all Sid James. We think it has something to do with The Beaver puppets that just arrived. | | |  | | |
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Empire At E3
E3 2011 started with a blast, as the Microsoft conference provided the first gameplay peek at surely the year's biggest gaming release, Modern Warfare 3. The packed out Galen Centre in Downtown Los Angeles was treated to a level of explosiveness that would even rattle Michael Bay's temperament – submarines explode, bullets are fired rapidly and New York's coastline gets completely obliterated. Sheer lunacy, sure, but it's some of the most impressively bombastic imagery from the Call of Duty series to date. | | | |
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Become A Film Noir Expert In Ten Easy Movies
Don your seediest trench coat or sultriest dress and head to the nearest dark alley because it's time to celebrate that coolest of cool genres: the film noir. From the early '40s, these dark-hued thrillers have been populated by iconic, whiskey-stained antiheroes, sharp-eyed femme fatales, world-weary 'tecs and trigger-happy gangsters; giving us fatalistic tales soundtracked by the screech of tires and the bark of gunshots. Down the years Hollywood's shadowy B movies have matured into A-list classics. They twist around your mind like the languorous curl of Lucky Strike smoke – stories from the pages of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler told by directors of the calibre of John Huston, Fritz Lang, Anthony Mann, Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz. Now, with Nicolas Winding Refn's mod-noir Driver on the horizon, Johnny Depp gearing up for a remake of Hammett's The Thin Man, edgy French thriller Point Blank arriving in cinemas, and L.A. Noire thrilling gamers, noir is back and you need to know about it. Sexy, smart and sinister, here's ten classics to get your started. | | |
|  | | Jason Momoa Talks Conan The Barbarian
Once of Mitch Buchanan's parish, Jason Momoa has come from Baywatch to the cusp of stardom. Make no mistake, you'll be seeing a lot more of this man, even if you're not already hooked on Game Of Thrones. His next role sees him step into the size 14's of Robert E. Howard's mighty warrior, Conan. Conan The Barbarian gives him the opportunity to assume 250lbs of muscle-ripped, sword-swinging Cimmerian legend and make it his own, and by the looks of things, he's done a pretty fine job. He's also a very charming man who took time to chat with us despite having a small mountain of other things on his plate (it's a big plate). So how much training was involved and more importantly, how can Empire have massive guns like Conan one day? Here's what he had to tell us about bringing his all-new Conan to the screen. |
|  | | New And Improved Collection Of Badly Photoshopped Movie Posters
Last year, we brought you 37 – that's right, 37 – of the world's worst movie posters. Each and every one-sheet had been hit with the bad photoshop stick so hard it was a tough job not to burst out laughing when you saw them at the bus stop. Today, we reveal our updated list, featuring 13 more 'beauties' for you to giggle, sigh and turn up your noses at – and to get you mentally prepared for just what's in store, we're kicking off with a killer: the original poster for the Oscar-winning The King's Speech. If this is what Best PIcture winners can get away with, imagine what else we have in store for you... |
|  | | The Ultimate Bears Picture Quiz
Bears come in two forms, cinematically. There's the cuddly, fuzzy-wuzzy version, as seen in Baloo from The Jungle Book, then there's the evil, rip-your-throat-out-before-clawing-your-face-off type, as seen in The Edge. The recently crowned king of the fuzzy-wuzzies has to be Po from Kung Fu Panda, who manages to gracefully prod buttock while carrying out a pretty decent Jack Black impersonation at the same time. And as the sequel is out this week, we thought we ought to give him a picture quiz, the lucky black-and-white bugger, and share it with you lot too. How nice of us, eh? |
|  | | Vote For Your Favourite Harry Potter Characters
With the finale instalment of the Harry Potter series out this summer, we thought that this would be the perfect time to look back over the seven books and eight films and establish which Potter character is your favourite. Is it The Boy Who Lived himself? Do sidekicks Ron and Hermione have what it takes? Is it all about one of the Professors, or the Marauders, or the smaller characters like Dobby or Buckbeak? Vote for your favourite three characters below to have your say and establish who's top wizard... |
|  | | Paul Feig And Chris O'Dowd Transcript
Succinctly put, Bridesmaids is an R-Rated comedy about a group of women who go on the hen do to end all hen dos. Starring Kirsten Wiig, Chris O'Dowd, Jon Hamm, Rose Byrne and more, it's directed by none other than Freaks And Geeks creator Paul Feig, which, naturally, makes the resulting film very bloody funny. So when Mr. O'Dowd and Mr. Feig said they were in town and available for a webchat, we jumped at the chance, and here is the result. Warning: contains brief descriptions of Jon Hamm going to the loo. Honestly, it really does. Oh, and by the way: Bridesmaids is out in cinemas on June 22. Write that down in your copybooks... now. | | | |
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A rootin', tootin' selection of Western goodies, courtesy of True Grit's DVD/Blu-ray release, complete with Rooster eyepatch. If we get a trident for Clash Of The Titans 2, our Ruprecht look is complete. | | | |
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Kung Fu Panda 2 
A richer plot, life lessons and loving Chinese cultural references rendered by turns sweet, scary and charming, with yet more fantastical kung fu, make this an engaging winner. Stunning visuals make it real art as well. | | | |
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127 Hours
A surprisingly fun, effervescent against-the-odds drama that offers an upbeat moral without the usual punishing survival-story clichés. Not for the faint-hearted, mind. | | | |
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