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This Week...
Watching You Only Live Twice again this week, the thought dawned on us that if this whole journalism thing doesn't work out, moving to Japan and becoming a ninja might not be such a bad idea. The hours are long, the casualties heavy and there's an awful lot of hiding involved, but abseiling into fake volcanoes looks like loads of fun. Sadly, the BFI London Film Festival is almost entirely ninja-free this year - unless you include the Dardenne brothers' demented new actioner, The Kid With A Bike - a fact we discovered at this week's line-up call. Still, there are a whole bunch of other treats in store for British movie lovers come festival time in mid-October. This week's line-up announcement was filled with big names, from Cronenberg and Clooney to Winterbottom and Weisz, and it's going to be a doozy. Ninjahood will just have to wait. Phil de Semlyen
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A dolphin with a removable tail from, er, A Dolphin's Tale. Both cute and kinda weird. | | | |
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James explains to Phil why the Jack Reacher books are the greatest ever written. | | |  | | |
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Clubbed To Death: How To Make The Perfect Clubbing Movie
In honour of Weekender’s Ellesse-clad army, I thought I’d come up with a few of my favourite movie clubbing moments. Warning: there’s controversy (no Human Traffic), transgender snogging (Trainspotting) and strobe lighting (all of them): | | | |
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London Film Festival 2011: The Empire Staff Picks
It's that time of year again: the line-up for the 55th BFi London Film Festival has been announced this morning at Leicester Square, and the Empire staff are now, like kids with a toy catalogue before Christmas, poring through the programme and planning our October viewing. But, just to make things difficult, we've tasked everyone with choosing their favourite film from the line-up and explaining why they're looking forward to it so much. | | |
|  | | Jane Eyre: The Interviews
Reader, they filmed it. Classic novel Jane Eyre is headed to our screens once more, starring Mia Wasikowska as the titular poor girl, Michael Fassbender as Mr Rochester and all directed by Cary Fukunaga. When Wasikowska and Fukunaga flew in to London recently, we took the opportunity to quiz them on the latest version of the story, and here are the results. |
|  | | Reflections On Scarface
This week sees the release on Blu-ray of Scarface, Brian de Palma's scorching 1983 crime drama starring a blistering Al Pacino along with Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, F. Murray Abraham, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Robert Loggia. From an Oliver Stone script telling the story of a crime lord's rise to power, it's become both a mainstream and cult classic, admired for Pacino's balls-to-the-wall portrayal of Tony Montana and the dark side of the American dream. To celebrate the Blu-ray release, the good folk at Universal have allowed us to print extracts from the exclusive new booklet that accompanies the special edition Blu-ray "cigar box" by author Lawrence Grobel. Read on to learn more about how the film came about, the role cocaine played and the influence of...Meryl Streep? |
|  | | An Exclusive Look At Troll Hunter Concept Art
With a rogues’ gallery of trolls, ranging from the faintly cuddly to the monstrously terrifying, and a brilliantly deadpan performance from Jespersen, this could be the film to reclaim the word "troll" from internet provocateurs: see it before Hollywood remakes it. |
|  | | Exclusive Melissa George Webchat
Her latest film sees her take on kidnappers in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands, but Melissa George is clearly not easily intimidated – after all, she agreed to face the rigours of an Empire webchat. We’re just glad she can fit us in to one of the busiest schedules in Hollywood: in the last few years she’s fought vampires in 30 Days Of Night, encountered strange time-loops in Triangle, tangled love affairs in Grey’s Anatomy and gone toe-to-toe with Sydney Bristow in Alias. With A Lonely Place To Die out this Wednesday, Melissa George took an hour or so to answer your questions about the film, her career to date and her favourite sandwiches – and here are her answers for you below, you lucky things. | | | |
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Troll Hunter 
You might need to take a Norwegian guide along to explain various local references and identify the specific trolls, but Troll Hunter’s proud cultural identity — tremble, a US remake is in the works — is its strongest suit. It’s wry, spectacular fun. | | | |
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