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This Week...
It's not every week Empire gets to meet an actual, bona fide icon, so we tiptoed a little nervously to The Dorchester for our meeting with the mighty Catherine Deneuve - especially so soon after watching Repulsion. She was in town to talk about zippy French comedy Potiche but we mostly ended up chatting about her collection of sheep and Gérard Depardieu's new fish shop, unfortunately not called 'The Green Carp'. Icon number two this week was Terrence Malick. We didn't get to meet him (obvs) but after many months of anticipation, we did finally catch The Tree Of Life on the big screen. Yes, it does have dinosaurs. No, they don't chase a jeep through a rain forest or munch on Wayne Knight, though we're happy to say that it's pretty unforgettable all the same. Phil de Semlyen
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Lesser Spotted Bridges... Ian Freer On Overlooked Jeff Bridges Classics
It is often a shame when an actor becomes so identified with one role that it is to the detriment to a whole body of work that came before it. Take Jeff Bridges. For the Empire generation, he is El Duderino — we're not into that whole brevity thing — in The Big Lebowski, cinema's greatest slacker, a man who has done more for toking, White Russians and bowling than anyone in history. It is a performance of laidback, sly comedic perfection that has come to characterise Bridges' persona and the perception of it. | | | |
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10 Movie Father Figures Better Than The Real Dads
Father's Day is here again, but what if you're looking for someone that can teach you something, save your life occasionally or generally make your existence better without those pesky genetic ties? We present the best movie father figures - a celebration of the men who'll guide you, give you sensible advise and pick you up from the football... and do it all the non-biological way. They're the Homer to our Pepe; the cool-headed ying to our running-around-breaking-things yang. Today we salute the men without kids of their own who nonetheless provided a valuable guiding influence in a variety of films... | | |
|  | | Ten Signs You're Having A Midlife Crisis
Okay, here's some bad news: we're all growing old. Obvious, sure, but it's as inevitable as the tides. Even Benjamin Button, for all his genetic freakutations, succumbs to the aging process in the end. He may look like Brad Pitt, but inside he's wearing terrible cardigans and wondering where he left the lawnmower. The key is not to fight it: to accept that experience, wisdom and a good nap in front of the bowls are well worth those grey hairs and knees that go 'clank' when you stand up. In Hollywood, though, this is not the way. As Jodie Foster's tragi-drama-comedy The Beaver shows, the full-blown on (and off)-screen middle years meltdown is a thing of scary power. Getting older in movies is, to paraphrase Dylan Thomas, about raging against the dying of the light, preferably with an array of fast cars, blondes crazed road-trips. It's largely a male preserve on the big screen - actors like Greg Kinnear, Jack Nicholson, Bill Murray, Michael Douglas and Nicolas Cage have made it their own - but the odd woman succumbs to the pressures of impending middle age as the following checklist proves. If any of the following things ring a bell, it's time to call your life coach. |
|  | | The 22 Most Badass Beards In Cinema
Let's get down to it, ladies and gents: beards are great. They keep you warm, they look cool, and they store food for you in case you get peckish later. And as an extra value-added bonus, they also make you look ever-so-very-manly. Even if you normally look like a walking, talking mop with pipe cleaners for arms and a half-moon for a face, one beard strategically applied to your cheeks and suddenly you're a hairy Adonis. To celebrate that fact, and rejoice in all the hirsute actors in Hollywood, here's our 20 favourite movie beards for you to stare at longingly. |
|  | | Jodie Foster Talks The Beaver
Hollywood's super-brainiest actress and director, Jodie Foster seemed to have cut herself a large piece of nightmare pie with her adaptation of The Beaver. The tale of a middle-aged man experiencing complete collapse, life imitated art when its star Mel Gibson's life fell apart off screen. He didn't even have a glove puppet to fall back on. But if Foster was at all stressed when Empire caught up with her in Cannes, she was doing a darn good job of hiding it. "It's an extraordinary performance from an extraordinary artist", she told us, " and it deserves to be celebrated..." |
|  | | Ryan Reynolds Talks Green Lantern
Around the world, fans of the Green Lantern comic book are gearing up to watch Ryan Reynolds take on the role of notorious ring botherer Hal Jordan in the summer's latest super-hero spectacular. For those who don't know their Sinestro from their Parallax, the Green Lantern Corps are a breed of intergalactic peace-keeping aliens. When one of their leaders dies, his super-power ring chooses Hal Jordan to replace him. Who better to chat to about the movie than Jordan and Sinestro themselves - Ryan Reynolds and Mark Strong - to get the lowdown on the blockbuster. |
|  | | The Ultimate Teachers Picture Quiz
So Bad Teacher is out this week, starring Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz, and as you might have guessed, they all play teachers. Good ones and bad ones, in fact. So to celebrate the professorial profession on the big screen, we've whipped up a little picture quiz for you to play, where - you guessed it - you have to work out the film title from the picture of the teach in question. Some are easy, some are hard, all of them have given more than a few detentions in their time. So... quiet at the back, and, um, get picture quizzing. Now. |
|  | | Kevin Macdonald Talks Life In A Day
On July 24, 2010 thousands of people from all around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in Kevin Macdonald's singular documentary, Life in a Day. It covers a single day on earth, spanning the globe from Bombay to Basingstoke. The result was over 80,000 clips from 93 countries: from footage of babies being born in Africa, to an American teenage boy having his first shave, to people being crushed at the Love Parade in Germany. The footage was then given to Oscar-winning director Macdonald and a small army of editors who whittled the clips down to a 90-minute documentary. But how the heck did they manage it? We sat down with the director to find out. |
|  | | In Praise Of... Woody Harrelson
To some, he will forever be Woody, the good-natured, sawdust-brained barman from Cheers. But Harrelson has had a long, varied life on screen covering all sorts of performances. As The Messenger finally arrives on our screens, we take a look at some choice cuts from his career to date... |
|  | | 7 Worryingly Geeky Father's Day Present Ideas
Let's be honest, as fun as greetings cards are – sometimes, honestly, they really, really are – they've got nothing on a real, actually, genuine present. No, this doesn't include gift vouchers, and no, another tie won't cut it this year. So this time around on June 19, let's actually celebrate your geeky movie-loving dad's existence with some high-quality pieces of movie merchandise that'll make his day, week, month, year. Go on, you know he's worth it. And if he's not, well, you're probably going to want this stuff yourself – trust us on that one… |
|  | | Francois Ozon Talks Potiche
A dramatic farce that could only be made in France, Potiche makes powerful points about feminism in the '70s but sits them alongside some very funny moments of Top Secret-style silliness. Director Francois Ozon is the man who brought this stage play to sparkling life on the big screen, uniting two French legends - Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu - in the process. He talked to Empire about being a feminist director, finding Depardieu's lady-like side, and which jokes get laughs where (in Britain we're all about the sex). Before any of that, though, he answered the big question on our minds: what the heck is a 'potiche'? |
|  | | Empire Meets Renny Harlin
Five Days Of August is set during the 2008 war in South Ossetia. It's a gutsy attempt to capture the short, nasty conflict between Russian and Georgia through the eyes of Rupert Friend's grieving photojournalist. Andy Garcia, Val Kilmer and Richard Coyle give the cast some extra dramatic heft. When we catch up with director Renny Harlin, he's sitting by the water in Marina del Ray, working on the screenplay for a serial killer movie he's planning, and resisting the allure of another sun-kissed LA day. He chatted about the film's tough shoot, the frustrations of going straight to DVD, and his next projects. Look out for a modern sea adventure that could be the highest concept movie in the history of the world... |
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In the black corner: Ali. In the other black corner: Elliot. Chances of either of them being mistaken for Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter? None. | | | |
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Green Lantern 
Martin Campbell made Zorro and Bond work as contemporary heroes, but doesn't quite have the feel for poor old Hal Jordan. Green Lantern is dazzling in pieces, but we've seen too many sharper versions of the superhero origin story in the last few years. It's not Jonah Hex, but the battery runs low too quickly. | | | |
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True Grit 
Terrific: tough, exciting, funny, gorgeous and bewitchingly acted, this is darn close to perfection. | | | |
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