Josh Brolin Locked In For Oldboy Remake, Become A Gangster Movies Expert, A Viewer's Guide To Colin Farrell, Fright Night Interviews, Introducing Kill List Director, Ben Wheatley

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This Week... I'm almost entirely alone in the Empire office today, because everyone and his minion has buggered off to the amusement park for cotton candy and roller coasters. Yes, it's Chris Hewitt's stag do, because when teetotallers celebrate the end of their singledom, they do it with G-forces, doughnuts and pick 'n' mix. As you can imagine, the plans have taken weeks. James has been shopping for the perfect mankini for the groom to wear, Ali's been watching The Hangover and taking notes, and Phil's been researching what sort of superglue is suitable for sticking hapless reporters to the front of Oblivion. Of course, as a girl I'm barred from attendance, but let's all hope that they video the good bits and send them back. Oh, and best of luck to Chris as he faces the greatest challenge of his career: not ending up naked and tied to a ghost train. Nobody needs to see that. Helen O'Hara Deputy Editor, Empire

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Josh Brolin Locked In For Oldboy Remake He's now starring... New Dragon Tattoo Images Online Craig & Mara drink coffee! Use phone! Could The Rock Be Goliath? He could Bring It, Biblically...

New Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Clip We get a glimpse here of Control (John Hurt), the man at the top of the "Circus", Britain's foreign intelligence agency (or MI6 to you and me) in the early 1970s. He briefs agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) in the hunt for the mole, assigning code-names to each of the suspects in the hunt. You'll also catch a glimpse here of Gary Oldman's George Smiley, who becomes the key figure in the hunt for the shadowy leak. More New Videos: New Straw Dogs Clips Online Action! Drama! Suspense! Bible class! Margaret Trailer Arrives Anna Paquin's life loses focus. New Martha Marcy May Marlene Trailer And poster! The Double Trailer Online Richard Gere hunts a killer. Avengers Prequel Short Film Online Coulson sends in The Consultant. Exclusive Fast Five Snippet How did they make the safe do that? The Hunger Games Footage Online Katniss out on the hunt. New International In Time Trailer Run, Olivia Wilde, run! Tyrannosaur Trailer Online See Paddy Considine's directorial outing.

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I actually did write a rap about living in Chorleywood at one point Phil reveals his gangster past.

When Sequel-naming Goes Horrifically Wrong 2: Electric Boogaloo This is a worryingly long blog that sets out to highlight when movie sequel-naming gets done, like, well badly. So to kick things off, here are some horrific examples of when film naming goes terribly, embarrassingly wrong...

Become A Gangster Movies Expert In Ten Easy Steps From the Tommy guns and spats of the '20s and '30s to the hoppers and re-ups of Noughties crims, gangster movies have had a big screen evolution that'd make Luca Brasi's eyes water. The genre's DNA can be found as far back as the Great War era of silent cinema, D.W. Griffith's The Musketeers Of Pig Alley (1912) sparking it to life in a flurry of genteel boaters, smoky nightclubs and blood-stained back alleys. The mantle then passed to filmmakers like Fritz Lang, Edwin S. Porter, Raoul Walsh and Josef von Sternberg, and each left their stamp on it with tales of violent heists, bustling speakeasies and 40 winks in underwater environments rich in piscine life. We've all seen classics like The Godfather, Godfellas, Once Upon A Time In America and Al Pacino's coke-hovering Scarface, but which other movies should you track down to master the genre? Here's our ten gangster movies to watch. Fehgedaboudit. Colin Farrell: A Viewer's Guide Movie buffs talk in hushed tones about John Wayne's first starring appearance, saddle in hand, as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach. Well, Colin Farrell actually went one better in his debut role. Okay, so it was an episode of Ballykissangel rather than a John Ford classic, but at least he had an actual horse under him. Even gallivanting about Ireland for the BBC, Farrell's languid charisma marked him out as an actor with a big future. He moved swiftly from the Emerald Isle to the A-list with a starring role in Joel Schumacher's Tigerland, and that roughneck charm has been ever present in the 10 years since. It's fair to say that his charms haven't seduced all moviegoers – he's as devilled by preconceptions as Marmite (or Keira Knightley) – but with Fright Night and Total Recall arriving, his Hollywood standing has never been higher. Here's our handy guide to Farrell's filmography to date. A Beginner's Guide To Sexy Movie Vampires There's something about vampires. Whether they sparkle or not, whether they're reformed or not, for the past half-century or so they've been sexing up the big screen on a fairly consistent basis. The latest is Colin Farrell in Fright Night, sinking his teeth into a role that's completely free of Catholic guilt and brimming with chances to smoulder. Even actors who aren't usually all that hot become an average of 37 percent (we measured) more attractive when given fangs (see also: TV's True Blue, The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Here are just a few of Hollywood's most memorable vamp lovers... Video: Introducing Kill List Director, Ben Wheatley The next in Empire's 'Introducing...' series sees Kill List director Ben Wheatley take the hot seat. Like his peers Duncan Jones and Daniel Brown, he's emerged from an advertising background to make visceral, explosive British indies. Kill List, his follow-up to seaside crime flick Down Terrace, is a film that will soon have everyone talking. But what about the director himself? Which films have most influenced him? What was his first cinema trip and what's his guilty pleasure? Empire found out... Fright Night: The Interviews Whether you fancy howling or howling with laughter, this week's Fright Night aims to please. A horror comedy wherein vampires stalk the suburbs and a teenage boy turns to a Vegas showman for slaying advice, this sees Colin Farrell sucking blood and David Tennant poncing. We sat down recently with the movie's young lovers, Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots; Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who plays the hero's best friend, and finally the pairing of director Craig Gillespie and big bad vampire Colin Farrell...

The best way to kill a horse is with neighpalm. While bubonic plague still exists and occasionally breaks out in parts of the world, the bacteria that caused the Black Death is now thought to be extinct. So that's good. Whitechapel is the only London station where the overground's underground and the underground's overground (wombling free). The Empire office windows are about to get a makeover. Frank Oz is directing Scott "Dr Sam Beckett" Bakula onstage in London this autumn. We could not be more excited.

Fright Night: The Musical. Pretty pictures. The Bad Opinion Generator. Cher sings every part in West Side Story. If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to me.

A Scarface Blu-ray cigar box case. The fancier and more aromatic way to enjoy the story of Miami's foremost cocaine psycho. Out on Monday September 5, Pacino fans!

Kill List A dark, funny, disturbing picture — not for the squeamish, though it's as given to subtle creepiness as outright horrors. With this, Wheatley elevates himself from kill list to A list. Right now, he's among the most promising filmmakers in Britain. Also Out Apollo 18 Found footage...on the moon! Fright Night The Vampire Next Door. The Hedgehog Eats bugs, hiberates in winter. The Art Of Getting By Freddie Highmore takes art. 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstacy Welcome to 3DD. Attenberg Freaks and Greeks. Weekender Sorted for E's but a bit lacking on wizz. Self Made British artsploitation flick. Watch Video 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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