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|  This Week... This week sees the debut of a zombie movie for kids, a Meryl Streep movie about sex and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as an irresponsible bike messenger. It's almost a relief to see Ray Winstone as a Cockney hardman taking down criminal scum and a Woody Allen movie about neurotic people in a major world city, just so you know that not all your expectations of life are going to be overturned. Meanwhile here on Empire, we have been interviewing the ParaNorman team, tracking down Pirates! booty Easter eggs and profiling the sci-fi films you should be watching out for. Helen O'Hara
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The Ultimate Winter Preview
Your essential guide to winter and beyond... The October issue of Empire has hit newstands, heralding the arriving of our yearly winter preview, led this time by Daniel Craig's James Bond in Sam Mendes' Skyfall. Flanked inside by the likes of Lincoln, Cloud Atlas, The Master, The Flight, Zero Dark Thirty, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Django Unchained, 007's return stands alongside some seriously heavyweight cinematic contenders, and Empire has the latest from every one of them. Subscribe today! 12 issues of Empire for only £30! |
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A copy of the BFG, some Frobscottle and some cupcakes (thankfully not snozzcumber flavoured) to celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of Roald Dahl's giant story. | | | |
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|  | | | Oh good, my Aki Kurismaki films have arrived! | | |  | | | Phil continues to show us how wrong we are in branding him an arthouse wonk. | | |
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Damon Wise At The Toronto International Film Festival
Increasingly vying with Venice to unveil the big Oscar contenders, the Toronto International Film Festival is becoming more and more important - and our Damon Wise is there to cover every minute of it, seeing eleventy billion and one films and blogging about as many of them as possible in the stolen moments between screenings. What did he make of Derek Cianfrance's follow-up to Blue Valentine? How is Ben Affleck's Argo looking? And how about Seven Psychopaths? Read all about it here. | | | |
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Five For The Diary: Smart Sci-Fi Movies
Welcome to an occasional feature on Empire, Five For The Diary, in which we round up mini-trends and look at upcoming movies, books and whatever else takes our fancy to leave you a little better informed on what's upcoming. In today's slice of preview-y goodness, we're looking at some of the hard-core, high-IQ sci-fi movies headed our way over the next six to eight months and why they're worth looking out for... | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #28
For our 28th podcast, we welcome ParaNorman directors Sam Fell and Chris Butler into the studio to talk about zombies, bad puns and people with shovel-like faces. Elsewhere on the podcast, the team discuss film's best insults - "Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!" - and the rare occasions they've been forced to leave a cinema. Then there are reviews of ParaNorman, Premium Rush and The Sweeney, as well as more than a few dodgy cockney accents. |
|  | | A Visual Guide To The Locations Of Woody Allen's Movies
If Michael Mann has LA, Mike Leigh has London and James Cameron now pretty much owns outer space, Woody Allen is seen as the definitive New York moviemaker. These days though, well... not so much. As our infographic illustrates, he's as likely to pop up with his crew in Market Harborough as Manhattan. Presumably he found his passport next to that lobster. |
|  | | Tommy Lee Jones: A Viewer's Guide
Raised in a one-horse town in Texas - aside from a few years at Yale, where he befriended one Al Gore - Tommy Lee Jones has been bringing his growly charisma to the screen since the late '70s. He's back on it this week in creaky-knee'd comedy Hope Springs alongside Meryl Streep, before moving on to a brace of real-life characters in Emperor and Lincoln later in 2012. What better time to revisit the Lone Star star's career to date? Well, his birthday maybe. Guess what? It's his birthday on Saturday! (September 15, if you're sending a card). |
|  | | ParaNorman: The Cast And Crew Interviews
Laika Studios' ParaNorman isn't just the punniest title of the year; it's also a rather adorable zombie movie for kids - "John Carpenter meets John Hughes", as directors Sam Fell and Chris Butler put it. Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) voices the boy who can see dead people and who must fight a zombie invasion, with Anna Kendrick as his big sister. We talked to those two, as well as the directors and studio CEO - and animator in his own right - Travis Knight. Here are the results... |
|  | | 20 Pirates! Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed
Saltier than a pack of dry-roasted peanuts and nearly as nutty, Aardman's animation Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists (out now on DVD and Blu-ray, fact fans) is filled with more seafaring secrets than a chest full of buried treasure. Easter eggs abound as Pirate Captain and his crew 'terrorise' at least a few of the seven seas with their buccaneering ways. Here's a few to keep a telescope out for. |
|  | | How Does Daniel Craig's Bond Tally Compare To The Rest?
Following the announcement that Daniel Craig will return at least twice more (post-Skyfall) as James Bond, we bring you this handy pictoral primer of the official 007s, their missions and years of service. A convenient guide for afficionados and a nifty cheat-sheet for Bond newbies, this will help you forever remember who played Bond most often and which one only had one outing. |
|  | | Ray Winstone And Ben Drew Talk The Sweeney
Ray Winstone And Ben Drew (also known as Plan B) play Regan and Carter in Nick Love's modern reimagining of the classic 1970s cop show, The Sweeney. Supporting them are Homeland's Damian Lewis and Captain America's Hayley Atwell, and together they met up with Empire at a swanky London hotel recently to talk all about it, covering topics as diverse as how you actually go about bollocking Ray Winstone to whether or not you should make 'pew pew pew' noises as you pretend to fire your gun... |
|  | | Exclusive: Behind The Scenes On Anna Karenina
Forget everything you know about period drama! Forget previous literary adaptations! In fact, just make like a human Etch A Sketch and wipe the slate altogether because Joe Wright's new take on Anna Karenina is unlike anything you've seen before. It's cinema as theatre and it's kinda marvellous. Empire went backstage to pull ropes and hit the dry ice button, until we were asked politely to leave. Here is the result... |
|  | | The Ultimate Cockney Picture Quiz
After Cockneys Vs. Zombies and The Sweeney, Londoners are getting more time on screen than ever. So to celebrate the working talents of Michael Caine, Jason Statham and others, here are 30 cinematic cockneys for you to work out the film from - including five Ray Winstones and a talking worm. | | | |
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Community Season 2, out on September 24. Go Human Beings! Honestly, if I restrain myself from watching the entire series this weekend it will be a miracle. | | | |
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ParaNorman 
Ingenious and wonderfully detailed, though better in its imaginative horror than its slightly too-broad comic knockabout. It's not quite on the level of Coraline, but it's proper summer fun with some dark delights. | | | |
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The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists 
Another Aardman triumph. The animation house's most technically ambitious project so far and, if not quite at the genius level of Wallace & Gromit, still a comedy treasure and far too good just for kids. | | | |
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Wabbit season! The "invisible" bunny stopped by to deliver copies of Harvey on Blu-ray. | | | |
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