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|  This Week... You're probably too busy quivering with excitement about the release of Skyfall next week to have paid attention to anything much recently, but there really has been quite a lot of excitement this week. Our podcast, for instance, has a whopping three interviews, with the star and director of Beasts Of The Southern Wild; Katie Featherston, star of Paranormal Activity 4, and Catherine O'Hara (no relation) and Martin Short on Frankenweenie. This week also saw the very first Empire Gala screening at the BFI London Film Festival, with A Liar's Autobiography , complete with Monty Python characters roaming the cinema and a male-voice choir joining in for a musical number. And this weekend we're off to Destination Star Trek to see all five Captains (of the TV show) together at last, so we can nerd out to our hearts' content and generally act like giant geeks. Who needs fancy cars and sharp suits with this much excitement? OK, that would be nice too... Helen O'Hara
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Hotel Chocolat Halloween chocolates. Now we can scare ourselves and comfort ourselves at the exact same time! Win! | | | |
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Hollywood Costume At The V&A: Empire Reviews The Exhibition
The Victoria and Albert Museum's latest big exhibition, Hollywood Costume, is something I've been excited about ever since I first heard it mentioned. There was a mini-press launch back in March and Senior Guest Curator - and costume designer of some note - Deborah Landis talked us through some of the collection, and I very nearly cheered aloud. They have Dorothy's dress! Indy's hat! And - most thrilling of all - Marilyn Monroe's dress from Some Like It Hot, the one where you can basically see everything while she sings I'm Through With Love. So it was in high spirits that myself and two Empire colleagues headed off yesterday morning to the full exhibition launch for a look at what's in store. | | | |
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Frankenweenie: Tim Burton And His Cast Talk Stop-Motion
Tim Burton's new film, Frankenweenie, is also his first film, a short effort that he has now expanded into a black-and-white stop-motion epic. Burton came in to London recently to talk about the film, along with cast-members Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short and Martin Landau and producers Allison Abbate and Don Hahn. Our Phil went along to quiz them on their favourite scary movies, who had a crush on whom, and much more... | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #33
In a bumper, 94-minute Empire Podcast, the team welcome Martin Short and Catherine O'Hara for Frankenweenie, Katie Featherston for Paranormal Activity 4 and Benh Zeitlin and Quvenzhané Wallis, the director and star of Beasts Of The Southern Wild. Elsewhere, all the Bonds get recast (because you demanded it) and Peter Lorre impersonations abound - on top of all the film news and reviews that you expect from the world's biggest movie magazine's movie podcast. |
|  | | 12 Of Cinema's Catchiest Earworms
Another Madagascar movie, another highly infectious cinematic earworm. Where the original Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa had variations of Reel 2 Real's 'I Like To Move It' as their indecently catchy signature tunes, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted has Afro Circus, a song sung by Chris Rock's zebra Marty. The lyrics go as follows: "Dadadadadadadada circus / Dadadadadadadada afro / Circus afro circus afro polka dot polka dot polka dot afro!" It's not high literature, but it's almost criminally catchy. So to celebrate (that may be the wrong word) the new ditty that's sure to clog up your brain for weeks to come, here are 12 more for you to, ahem, 'enjoy'... |
|  | | How To Make The Indiest Indie Movie Ever
The mainstream U.S. indie movie is an amorphous kind-of-sort-of genre that's hard to define properly. Known by many simply as "indies" - though chances are they're not independently funded at all - they are the playground of young and pretty actors, loveable older character players and up-and-coming directors. Here then, is an attempt to nail down what it is that makes a studio-funded "indie" so "indie" and how you could go about making the perfect one yourself... |
|  | | The 20 Coolest Stop Motion Monsters
Stop motion is seriously beloved in these parts. We'd happily commute to work on Ray Harryhausen's Pegasus, given a bucket of apples and a parachute. So Tim Burton's return to the medium with monochrome monster-athon Frankenweenie and the upcoming Harryhausen doc are all the excuse we need to pick a few of our favourite stop-mo beasties from movie history. Have a read, see what you think, and share your suggestions in the usual place. | | | |
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Frankenweenie T-shirts, and a cuddly re-animated dog, to celebrate the release of Burton's latest. | | | |
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Frankenweenie 
Very sweet, very funny, really quite touching and exquisitely handmade, by a film lover with humour and a heart, for a like-minded audience. | | | |
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
A must-see for any Allen aficionado and just about anyone who craves an insight into the publicity-shy man's glorious career. | | | |
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