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|  This Week... It's December, and with the colder weather and exponentially-increasing Christmassiness all around us comes not one but two exciting countdowns. First of all, we noticed that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits cinemas on the 13th, and we happen to have interviews with all 13 dwarves. How serendipitous! So you can read one of those each day, as well as extra Hobbity goodness, all the way to its release next week. As if that weren't enough, we're also running a competition with HMV offering you rather spiffing prizes every day until Christmas, just to warm your cockles this winter. And as usual we've got podcasts packed with guests, interviews with the likes of Colin Farrell, a breakdown of that first Star Trek teaser and much more. Santa Claus, frankly, needs to raise his game in comparison. We're coming for you, Saint Nick! Helen O'Hara
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A rather spiffy Flagship Chrono watch from Swiss Military Hanowa. Much like the kind of thing Tony Stark might wear around the office we like to think. | | | |
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European Film Awards 2012
A bit of context before the ceremony: this year's European Film Awards are taking place in the beautiful surroundings of Valletta, Malta, following a couple of weeks of quiet (and not so quiet) ructions within Malta's own modest film establishment. Despite a record year for domestic applications to the Malta Film Fund, it transpires that no visiting productions at all are currently scheduled to shoot in Malta next year. Cue bitter recriminations and accusations of incompetence and financial mismanagement from Film Service Providers Malta - a collection of production service companies responsible for managing most foreign productions filmed in Malta over the last ten years - towards controversial Malta Film Commissioner Peter Busuttil. Finance Minister Tonio Fenech dismissed the spat as a "personality clash," but it's a claim angrily denied by FSPM. | | | |
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Vote For The Jameson Empire Awards 2013 And Enter The Done In 60 Seconds Competition!
It's the day you've always dreamed of - Tom Hiddleston wants YOU... to upload your Done In Sixty Seconds entries to this year's competition. For proof, check out his video right over here and listen to the former Loki explain why it's awesome and why you should get involved. We promise this won't get you on the wrong side of the Avengers. As a bonus, there's still time to vote for your films of the year at the Jameson Empire Awards and decide which of Hollywood's great and good gets to mount the stage this year. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #40
In the latest Empire Podcast, Seven Psychopaths' Sam Rockwell and Martin McDonagh talk about the latter's follow-up to In Bruges and the former's love of dancing on screen. Elsewhere, Warp Films' 10th anniversary is celebrated and Sightseers writers and stars Alice Lowe and Steve Oram stop by for a chat. Plus, the team try to work out exactly what it is about The Wolf from Pulp Fiction that makes him worthy of such a reputation... |
|  | | Empire's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Celebration
Counting down to the release of The Hobbit - we're going to unveil a brand new and exclusive 'extended edition' interview with each of the dwarfs every day - plus you may well get some exclusives Hobbit features on the way to December 13. |
|  | | Empire's Christmas Competition Advent Calendar
HMV.com We've team up with our pals at HMV to bring you especially festive '24 Days of Christmas' Advent Calendar give-away. Each day will open and give you the opportunity to win an amazing competition prize - which we'll make sure gets to you by Christmas day! Prizes will range from new releases of films on Blu-ray and DVD, TV box sets, soundtracks,the very latest portable technology and much, much more! Christmas has definately started early, all courtesy of HMV and Empire, of course. |
|  | | Colin Farrell And Martin McDonagh Talk Seven Psychopaths
Seven Psychopaths is In Bruges director Martin McDonagh's second full-length feature film, a meta thriller/revenge comedy that almost defies definition. What's not up for debate is that it stars Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits, Abbie Cornish, Olga Kurylenko and Colin Farrell - and it's the last name in that long and illustrious list that joined McDonagh for a interview with Empire about all sorts of nonsense, from Die Hard in-jokes to Arnold Schwarzenegger's finest film... |
|  | | Charlotte Rampling Talks I, Anna
The one and only Charlotte Rampling spoke to Empire about her latest, the noir thriller I, Anna. Directed by her own son, Barnaby Southcombe, Ms. Rampling delivers a beautifully understated turn as the enigmatic title character, acting alongside Hayley Atwell, Eddie Marsan and Gabriel Byrne. Here below is our interview with the great actress, where she talks about everything from her favourite director to the weirdness of auditioning for her own son's project... |
|  | | What We Learned From The Star Trek Into Darkness Teaser Trailer
This week saw the debut of the first significant footage from JJ Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness (we're not counting the single-digit number of frames he brought to US TV) and it's promising big action and big peril for the crew of the Enterprise. Here's what we noticed on display. |
|  | | When To Watch Your Favourite Christmas Movies
If you're reading this, you probably quite like Christmas movies. You may even be the kind of person who has done all their Christmas shopping already and wears a reindeer jumper from November onwards. But either way, you have to struggle with a thorny question: when is it OK to watch (or admit to watching) the many Christmas movies out there? When should you programme in Elf, and what's the right time for It's A Wonderful Life? For your convenience, we've assembled a Christmas timetable below... |
|  | | Empire's Christmas Gift Guide 2012
Perhaps you're stuck on what to get your family for Christmas. Or maybe you're trying to ensure that your own Christmas list is filled with maximum awesomeness. Either way, we are here to help. We have scoured catalogues and interwebs to find the very best gifts this year, from the high-end high-tech to the highly silly. | | | |
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A Captain's Yule Log; tea, Earl Grey, hot and a copy of Star Trek: The Next Generation season 2 on Blu-ray. Engage! | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. | | | |
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The Dark Knight Rises goodies for the film's DVD and Blu-ray release earlier this week. When the newsletter is published, we have Amar's permission to play with them. | | | |
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Seven Psychopaths 
Enormously entertaining, endlessly quotable, perfectly cast and packed full of the richest acting you'll see from an ensemble cast all year, but the result is ever so slightly hollow. | | | |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
It may deal in part with a (literal) phantom menace, but this is thankfully not The Phantom Menace. The Hobbit plays younger and lighter than Fellowship and its follow-ups, but does right by the faithful and has a strength in Martin Freeman's Bilbo that may yet see this trilogy measure up to the last one. There is treasure here. | | |
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The Dark Knight Rises 
With spectacle in abundance and sexiness in (supporting) parts, this is superhero filmmaking on an unprecedented scale. Rises may lack the surprise of Begins or the anarchy of Knight, but it makes up for that in pure emotion. A fitting epitaph for the hero Gotham deserves. | | | |
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