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|  This Week... Happy New Year! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, once you left the bunker you'd prepared to survive the Mayan apocalypse, and a very merry New Year. And so we're all back at work, no longer watching films all day every day while nibbling on a chocolate orange, and you may be feeling a little depressed at the thought of a couple more months of winter. But fear not! We're here to replace thoughts of money-saving with glad tidings of quality, Oscar-baiting films; to distract you from diets with a giant preview of the year ahead and to paper over thoughts of not drinking with a whole host of celebrity interviews from the biggest films around. Don't think of this as Dry-anuary; think of it as the month of Les Misérables, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and more. Helen O'Hara
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A rather excellent Winnie The Pooh Duplo playset. Look, don't judge us, sometimes even Lord Of The Rings Lego is a little too much for us here at Empire. | | | |
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|  | | | I put the 'fun' in 'fundamentalist'. Mind you, I also put in the 'mentalist' | | |  | | | Dan discusses his approach to life. | | |
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Why I Love Django Unchained
I was surprised when it turned out Sony Pictures had pitched the hardest to release Quentin Tarantino's new film internationally, since I remember all too well the last time that studio released a spaghetti western featuring Leonardo DiCaprio: it died a death. I haven't seen Sam Raimi's The Quick And The Dead since it came out in 1995, but back then it was considered toxic. I, on the other hand, loved it; a kind of berserk, ultra-heightened Sergio Leone pastiche - as made by the Three Stooges - it nevertheless maintained the genre's grim sense of anarchy, albeit by making that point in a wildly literal way. | | | |
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Empire's Giant 2013 Movie Preview
Assuming the Mayan-inspired doomsayers are wrong, 2013 is going to be a heck of a year for film. We have huge new releases all year long, from the high notes of Les Misérables to the high explosives of Iron Man 3 to the high drama of Zero Dark Thirty. So that you can prepare yourself for it all and stand ready to explain what's coming to friends down the pub, we've prepared a massively thorough, hugely sweeping preview of the films out next year that will be hitting your cinemas. Broken down thematically, here's what's coming... | |
|  | | Podcast Review Of The Year 2012
2012 was the year that was, and this is the Empire Podcast Review Of The Year (that is). So for a slightly anarchic meander around the past 12 months of moviedom - and some spoilers that you'd expect with that (see the 32nd minute onwards for the likes of 'Death Of The Year' and so on) - then press play on this here podcast. |
|  | | The Hobbit Movie Poster Mashups
Anything The Lord Of The Rings can do, The Hobbit can do better, right? Wait, don't answer that. Instead, take a look at our movie poster mash-ups for Peter Jackson's return to Middle-earth, complete with puns so good/bad that 'Man On Shire' didn't even make the top spot. Find out what did reach number one after a few chuckles and a couple of clicks... |
|  | | Alice Eve And Benedict Cumberbatch Talk Star Trek Into Darkness's Characters
The secrets of Star Trek Into Darkness are so secret that the stars of the movie - including Alice Eve as Dr. Carol Marcus and Benedict Cumberbatch as villain John Harrison - are like spoiler ninjas, dodging and ducking as they evade journalists' tricksy questions. So when the latest issue of Empire, more chock-full of Star Trek Into Darkness details than J.J. Abrams' safe, offered an opportunity to speak to Eve and Cumberbatch about the film, a different tack was taken. Here, then, are a couple of new photos from the magazine, as well as some select stills from the trailers, that the two actors discussed and commented on. Look forward to Zoolander references, tales of Chris Pine's sloppy table manners and the word 'Sherlockies'... |
|  | | Empire's Music Playlist Of 2012
This was the year in soundtracks when Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'The Power Of Love' provided the soundtrack to two snowmen falling in love in an ad as well as a couple mowing people down with a caravan in Sightseers, when Teenage Fanclub wore denim wherever she went in Young Adult, Katy Perry's fireworks created health and safety issues in two more movie, and we asked, 'Who got da keys to Hans Zimmer?" Christopher Nolan, as it turned out. Read on for our picks of the aural pleasures of 2012... |
|  | | Guess The Video Game Logo From The Letter
After the many hours of joyful headscratching success of our Guess The Movie Logo From The Letter quiz, we thought we'd expand the concept and let them there computery video gamey-jigs get in on the quizzing action. Here, then, are 26 letters from the titles of 26 different gaming franchises, almost all of them bastard hard. So if you're the kind of human who completes Dark Souls - somehow - then prepare for an equally devilish challenge... |
|  | | The Impossible Video Interviews
The true story of a family of holidaymakers caught up in the 2004 tsunami, The Impossible is already been touted as an awards-season contender. "It's a very intense film", Bayona tells us of his follow-up to The Orphanage, "but a very rewarding one, because it's about human nature from a very optimistic point of view". Empire met the Spaniard and cast members Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor about their tough, terrific human drama. |
|  | | Exclusive Noma Bar Empire Illustrations
Award-winning graphic designer Noma Bar - famous for his 'Negative Space' style - has been creating some eye-popping work for Empire over the past year, and here below are some of his finest efforts, tackling the likes of Jaws, Groundhog Day and The Avengers. |
|  | | Jack Reacher Video Interviews
Christopher McQuarrie's Jack Reacher unites two unlikely cinematic talents from the same era into a fusion of growly magic. Robert Duvall, a true great and veteran of The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and Network, and Werner Herzog, whose Amazon epic Fitzcarraldo is still a high-water mark for sheer filmmaking guts and ambition, play wrongly-accused sniper and big bad respectively. Empire went along to smell the napalm with Duvall and caught up with his co-star David Oyelowo and Reacher writer Lee Child while we were there. |
|  | | Empire's Best Films Of 2012
This list is compiled through everyone at Empire submitting a personal top 10 list of their favourite movies released over the course of 2012. These votes are then collated together to produce this bigger list, so if a film was in many peoples' top 5s, say, those movies ended naturally higher up on this longer list. |
|  | | UPDATE: How To Make A Billion Dollars At The Box Office
There are now fourteen films that have passed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box-office (unadjusted for inflation), making it the new benchmark for a big blockbuster. Skyfall is the latest to pass the ten-figure mark, joining Avatar, Titanic, Avengers, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part Two, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Dark Knight Rises, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Toy Story 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Alice In Wonderland and The Dark Knight. So what do all these films have in common? Here's what we've learned about the billion-dollar club... |
|  | | Exclusive Readers' Soundtrack Offer
Here's a fantastic offer for you lucky readers. For a limited time, Empire readers only can get 25% off the retail price on a selection of awesome soundtracks from our friends over at buythesoundtrack.com. Here's how: - Head to buythesoundtrack.com.
- Click on the Empire logo on the top right of their homepage.
- Enter the passcode Empire2013.
- Sign up for newsletters, competitions, tickets to exclusive screenings, Q&As and premieres.
- Survey the various aural delights that await you there!
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A blood bag for vampire movie Midnight Son. We're going to check the calorie count before drinking it though, after Christmas and everything. | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. | | | |
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The Impossible 
You can take issue with its overly Anglicised approach to an international tragedy, but there's no denying that this rousing, superbly acted, no-holds-barred melodrama is a mighty feat of physical filmmaking. | | | |
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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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Berberian Sound Studio
With a debut film, Katalin Varga, shot entirely in Hungarian, Strickland isn't one for the easy option. This excellent follow-up plunges into equally unusual terrain with similarly pleasing results. | | | |
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