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|  This Week... This is a day for rejoicing! Not only does it mark the end of January, which means that you can safely quit the gym for another 11 months / start eating chocolate again / recommence drinking, but this week also saw the release of the new issue of Empire magazine . This month we have a jam-packed line-up of exclusive looks at superhero movies, led by Man Of Steel but supported by The Wolverine, Thor: The Dark World and much more. So why not skip spin class, get yourself a copy and read it with a slice of cake? After all, the Anglo-Saxons called February 'Solmonath' or "the month of cakes", so it's an ancient tradition you should really respect. Helen O'Hara
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A Buzz Lightyear T-shirt from Fabric Flavours' Disney At Harrods range, which will be worn by some Empire offspring to infinity and beyond. | | | |
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Sundance Film Festival Round-Up
Like Liam Neeson in The Grey only without all the pesky wolves, Empire dispatched its hardiest sort into the wilds of Utah to hazard A-listers, five-star hotels and films - many, many films. Strapping Dictaphones to his hands, he ventured into the midst of Robert Redford's annual high-altitude festival to get to grips with the latest from the indie movie circuit. Here's the full low-down. | | | |
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The Spielberg Moments That Are Quintessentially Spielberg
Everyone remembers the Big Spielberg Set-Pieces - the Mothership landing in Close Encounters, the rolling boulder in Raiders, the bike over the moon in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Yet the thing that often sets Spielberg films apart are the small flashes - the memorable shots, telling details, humorous asides and sublime grace notes - that litter each and every film (even the ones that don't entirely work). As Lincoln hits cinemas, we survey every Spielberg flick and pull out the magic, privileged moments that have been present and correct over the past 40 years. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #46
It's an all-star line-up this week, with Denzel Washington and Robert Zemeckis dropping by the pod-booth to talk Flight, and Rafe Spall and Dan Mazer on I Give It A Year. We also discuss the new Muppets movie, the prospects for a Duncan Jones Warcraft film and much more in a podcast that is 100% Chris Hewitt-free! (Whadya mean, that's a bad thing?!) |
|  | | Empire Podcast Flight Interview Special
Flight unites Denzel Washington with Robert Zemeckis, and this Empire Podcast special does likewise, with the legendary duo chit-chatting together in the podbooth for over 40 minutes. Press play to learn why Washington refuses to send texts messages, which shots in Flight use the most digital trickery, and what it sounds like when an Oscar-winning actor recites a line from The Beatles' trippy Revolution 9. |
|  | | Movie 43: Just How Bad Is It?
An ensemble comedy that takes the all-star-few-jokes sketch formula of New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day, surgically removes the jokes and instead slaps its audience in the face with a rotten kipper, it's fair to say that Movie 43 has not made too many friends in the movie-reviewing community this weekend (read this piece on the Hollywood Reporter for an interesting look at how it came to be). Not that everyone railed against its loose gathering of poo-flinging and fartypants skits, or the face testicles it attaches to the lovely features of Mr Hugh Jackman, though. The Washington Post gave it a rave, and, having brought down Richard Nixon, they can usually spot a stinker. But Woodward and Bernstein were in the minority. Most reviewers took a rather less kindly approach, as this cacophony of criticism roundly attests. |
|  | | DIY Crouching Tiger Sequel Generator
We were deeply excited last week to report that a sequel to Ang Lee's 2000 martial arty success Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is currently in the works. As we reported, the new film is adapted from the book Silver Vase, Iron Knight, but whether or not that's the name of the film remains unconfirmed. Which means there's still time for The Weinstein Company to have a go on our patented Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Sequel Name-o-tronic 5000. |
|  | | Five Dwayne Johnson Projects That Could Have Been...
Last week Dwayne Johnson proudly announced that his next project - a film called Teddy Bear - is based on a painting for children that he likes. This might seem like an odd way to approach an idea for a film, but it was a long road to that "Eureka!" moment for Johnson. We trawled through his bins and discovered that he'd abandoned five projects based on paintings by kids before he hit on the idea of instead investigating paintings for kids: here we can present the projects that fell by the wayside. |
|  | | From The Archive: The Making Of Superman
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the first really huge comic-book success on the cinema screen, and as Man Of Steel leads our new cover, we take a look back at the making of Richard Donner's Superman, the standard against which all other Big Blue Boy Scouts must be judged. |
|  | | Alicia In Wonderland
It's something of an understatement to say that Alicia Vikander has had a year to remember. The 24 year old Swedish actress, so memorable as the young Queen embarking on the eponymous scandal in A Royal Affair, the Danish movie nominated for Best Foreign Film at this year's Oscars; and as Kitty in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, was recently announced shortlisted - by a jury including Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Kermode and our own Chris Hewitt - for this year's EE Rising Star Award, alongside Suraj Sharma, Andrea Riseborough, Juno Temple and Elizabeth Olsen. Vikander will find out if she's won the public vote at the BAFTAs on February 10. We spoke to her briefly recently to gauge her feelings on her incredible year, on Hollywood, and on a certain Austrian auteur... |
|  | | Beasts Of The Southern Wild Charity Screening
Want to go to a Oxfam charity screening of Beasts Of The Southern Wild hosted by Simon Pegg on February 6? Of course you do! Buy your tickets here: beasts.eventbrite.co.uk. | | | |
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A House At The End Of The Street vest and book to mark the film's DVD release on January 28. Jennifer Lawrence not included, unfortunately, since she'd be a laugh. | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. | | | |
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With serial-killer series Following on the telly now, we were sent a head in a box as a reminder. Boy, does Gwyneth Paltrow need to lay off the mung beans. | | | |
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Flight 
A welcome return to live-action filmmaking for Zemeckis, who hasn't lost his knack for a brilliant shot or for extracting great performances. It may not exactly be a first-class experience throughout, but there's nothing wrong with premium economy. | | | |
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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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Looper 
Intelligent science-fiction sometimes seems an endangered species - too much physics and there's a risk of creating something cold and remote, too many explosions and get lost in the multiplex. Looper isn't perfect, but it pulls off the full Wizard Of Oz: it has a brain, courage and a heart. | | | |
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