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This Week...
It's almost Christmas time, and you can tell because all of the big Christmas movies are premiering at the moment. Sherlock Holmes - Ghost Protocol, Mission: Impossible - A Game Of Shadows and The Girl With The Confused Titles all took their bow in London this week. Hollywood, in other words, is giving you the gift that keeps giving: big stars and giant explosions (not so much of the latter in Dragon Tattoo, admittedly). This week also saw awards season heat up a notch with the nominations for the Golden Globes and SAG Awards hitting the wires. In summary: it's a good day to be in a silent movie called The Artist. And over this way, we discussed the best Christmas movie characters, Robert Downey Jr's must-see performances and whether anyone likes egg nog. Helen O'Hara
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We got DVDs of The Killing: Season 2, along with danishes and jumpers. The danishes because, well, it's Danish; the jumpers because the lead character has made naff pullovers cool again. | | | |
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Lucy explains why she is allowed to throw stones. | | |  | | |
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Kim Newman: Moriarty & Me
One of the perils of writing novels in which you borrow – all right, steal – other people's characters or premises or worlds is that if the original material is 'open source', as it were, you won't be the only person doing it. Indeed, the popular kids in this playground tends to be mobbed. To qualify, they have to be out of copyright and loosed from the clutches of the estates of the original creators or else we get into the perilous terrain of 'licensed' work, which means being required to leave the property the way you found it... | | | |
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The 24 Best Christmas Movie Characters
We've talked before about the Greatest Christmas Movies Ever and we've had our readers mash up Christmas posters but now we want to focus in a little more closely. Who are the best characters in all these seasonal films? What personalities stand out when the Christmas presents are down? Here, for our money, are the contenders... | |
|  | | Jeremy Renner And Paula Patton Talk Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Given that the Mission: Impossible franchise has a history of killing off perfectly good movie stars in the first five minutes, you might think they'd think twice before signing on. But not Jeremy Renner and Paula Patton, who both dared to join the Impossible Mission Force with Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt, and soon found themselves hanging out on, and sometimes off, the world's tallest building at the behest of director Brad Bird in the fourth instalment of the spy franchise. We caught up with them recently to learn more about the experience... |
|  | | Robert Downey Jr. A Viewer's Guide
It must be nice being Robert Downey Jr. right now. Think about it: you're Tony Stark and Sherlock Holmes; you can switch from the multiplex blockbusters to screen-on-the-green indie fare with a flick of that megawatt charisma; you're twice Oscar nominated, and your twinkly eyes can make even the steadiest pair of pins go a bit wobbly. Of course, it hasn't always been plain sailing being RDJ – and, no, we're not just talking about Gothika – but his talents have helped see him through the darker days. As he takes up the fedora and, ahem, lipstick for a second outing as Sherlock Holmes, we've looked back at his film career to sort the best from the rest. |
|  | | Carol Morley On Dreams Of A Life
Carol Morley first heard of Joyce Vincent in 2006 when she picked up a discarded copy of the Sun on the London underground. Joyce had been found dead in her bedsit in Wood Green, north London. The TV was still on, the sink full of dishes, and she was surrounded by half-wrapped Christmas presents. Her body had laid there for three years, undisturbed. No-one had noticed her absence. Five years later, and Morley's film Dreams of a Life is hitting the cinemas on the back of some of the best critical reviews this year. A humane, disturbing and incredibly moving film, it's an unlikely, but somehow fitting, film to define Christmas 2011. Empire talks to Carol Morley about piecing together Joyce Vincent's life, and what stories like this mean in our hyper-connected and all too busy world... |
|  | | Jason Lee Talks Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
It takes a certain kind of talent to work with three scene-stealing chipmunks who are prone to singing pop songs in squeaky tones, and still emerge with your dignity intact. But Jason Lee has that talent, mixing work in now three Alvin And The Chipmunks films with a career in TV and on film. We met up with him recently in LA to learn more... |
|  | | Jameson Empire Awards 2012: Vote Now!
It's the most irreverent awards night on the celluloid calendar - and we need you to help decide the winners. The choice is yours - and we don't envy you the task, for it's been a hell of a year. The competition is open to any film that was released between January 22, 2011 and January 20, 2012, which means that the late-blooming likes of Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, Steve McQueen's Shame and Steven Spielberg's War Horse are all in contention. |
|  | | Done in 60 Seconds Competition
The 2012 Jameson Empire Awards Done in 60 Seconds has arrived! To take part in this year's competition and be in with a chance of winning a Jameson Empire Award and attending the star-studded and glittering Jameson Empire Awards ceremony in March 2012, grab some mates and blag a camera from somewhere and get shooting. To 60 seconds and not beyond! | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to me. | | | |
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A Super 8 camera, zombie props and film for, well, Super 8. We're arguing about what to make: Phil reckons a treatise on the human condition, Ali prefers a shot-by-shot remake of Crank using only guinea pigs. | | | |
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Super 8 
It's nowhere close to E. T. - what is? - but amongst the hullabaloo of summer, Super 8 is something to cherish: a beautifully made homage to better times, and better movies. | | | |
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