 |  If you happen to spot an Empire staffer in the street this week and notice that we're looking a little frazzled and over-stimulated, it's because we're now in the midst of the BFI London Film Festival, which kicked off on Wednesday with the premiere of Captain Phillips, and which heralds 12 days of non-stop film screenings and interviewings for the Empire team. We'll be bringing you reports of the biggest galas of the Festival as it rolls along, and trying to remember to eat amid the madness. In other news, our James decided to solve an issue that plagues all film lovers and produce a pronunciation guide for the trickiest filmmaker names out there. If you've ever looked at the name "Quvenzhané" and given up, this is the feature for you... Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  New American Hustle Trailer Hits
There's so much to absorb in the new trailer for David O. Russell's American Hustle, it's hard to know where to start. Christian Bale channelling '80s De Niro while sporting the Donald Trump of comb-overs and a belly the size of the Machinist? Bradley Cooper's perm? Amy Adam's A Star Is Born Streisand mop? Jeremy Renner's mini-Eraserhead? The sheer, unrestrained Seventies-ness of this movie fills our hearts with joy - and we hope it does yours too. More: New Trailer For The Monuments Men 'We're fighting for our culture'. Loki Gets His Own Thor: The Dark World Featurette An army, magazine covers and now this? Greedy blighter! First Clip From Toy Story Of Terror Woody and the gang get spooked. New 47 Ronin Trailer Crashes In Blood rivers and corpse mountains, ahoy! Latest Walter Mitty Trailer Journeys Online Ben Stiller dreams big. New Trailer For Out Of The Furnace To find the truth, enter the fire. I, Frankenstein Trailer Online Can Aaron Eckhart deliver us from evil? New Trailer For The Invisible Woman Appears Ralph Fiennes' Dickens drama. Ender's Game Clip Online 'How'd you like to lead your own army?'
  Two Cloudbabies DVDs. For the uninitiated (those without kids), it's about little Yorkshire-accented fairies who do custodial work up in the sky. It's like TV crack for the under threes.
 Oooh, can you get me a discount hamster?  Ally gets excited to learn that Dan has a hook-up at Pets At Home.
Hollywood Pronunciation Guide
Being a smorgasbord of multicultural personalities, Hollywood oft seems populated by a great many people with tongue-twisting handles. All too often on awards nights do presenters find themselves vaulting onto the rings of verbal gymnastics for a display of articulatory acrobatics that, as often as not, sees them end up face down in a jumble of angry consonants. Well, no longer. Aided by renowned theoretical physicist Dr Stephen Hawking* we have put together a definitive pronunciation guide to keep your plosives from colliding with your fricatives while trying to navigate the average cast list. *This is a lie. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast 82: Hayley Atwell, Gareth Evans, Douglas Booth
A triple-bill of interviews for you this week, from Agent Carter herself, Hayley Atwell, to your latest Romeo, Douglas Booth. In the middle is the director of The Raid - and, as you'd expect, The Raid 2 - Gareth Evans, who was in town to talk about his contribution to V/H/S/2 |
|  | | Classic Scene #1: On The Waterfront
The first classic scene to ever grace the back pages of Empire is from On The Waterfront. If you can guess which scene it might be, you will win five Empire points, redeemable at your local newsagents. A word of warning, mind - Empire points aren't actually real. |
|  | | Michael Smiley Q&A
Empire spoke with Smiley at the Dinard Film Festival - a celebration of British film, in Brittany, northern France - where he was serving on the jury alongside Eric Cantona. The festival also showed a couple of his films, including For Those In Peril and the delicate, atmospheric drama Shell, in which he plays a touching supporting part. |
|  | | Empire Meets Eric Cantona
The former Manchester United footballer - now an actor of 15 years experience - is still a striking figure, the centre of each room, despite being a surprisingly quiet man. He speaks slowly and deliberately, with long, thoughtful pauses - almost literally chewing over each word, his lips moving quietly while he considers it. As a man who straddles the channel as an icon, he seems a fitting choice to judge the films - not that he's keen to be seen as a judge... |
|  | | Ouya: Was It Worth The Wait?
The Ouya screamed into the public consciousness back in July 2012, when the then-hypothetical device's Kickstarter campaign became an $8.6m success story in a ridiculously brief 29 days - the second most popular project in the site's history. Promising a digital-first console with a touch-enabled controller for a meagre $99, its aim was to bring the best of mobile gaming to the home TV screen, rounded off with promises of free games. Does the innovative, independent micro-console live up to expectations? |
|  | | The Jameson Empire Done In 60 Seconds Ironman Challenge!
Given 2014 will be Empire's 25th anniversary year we felt it was appropriate to pick a movie from the year of our inception 1989 (so not Inception then). We thought about Batman, we pondered Indy 3, we almost went for Bill And Ted's Great Adventure before realising it was made on the budget of a DISS movie anyway. Then it hit us, the perfect choice. Something we have all experienced, albeit likely in slightly less posh surroundings - school. You've got it: start channeling your best Peter Weir, gen-up on your Walt Whitmans, dust down your sixth form blazers, put a call through to your old alma mater for your location shoot, and track down your perfect Knox Overstreet, it is time to seize the day! Oh captain, my captain, this year's Done In Sixty Seconds 'IRONMAN' Challenge movie is DEAD POETS SOCIETY. |
|  | | The 100 Sexiest Movie Stars
You voted in your tens of thousands and here, at last, are the results, the Sexiest Movie Stars of 2013. And frankly we think it's a darn good list, a list that shows you guys are discerning in your tastes and able to look beyond mere spectacular good looks to spot the stars who have that extra attractiveness within. Check out the list and see if your favourites made the cut. |
|  | | Empire Presents the New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy has built a reputation as one of the premier film schools in the world. With its innovative hands-on approach to teaching, students find themselves completely immersed in their course of study, surrounded by award-winning faculty and working with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Learn Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Photography, Musical Theatre, Game Design, Animation and more. |
 A Thor t-shirt from the lovely folks at Fabric Flavours who now have a whole host of Marvel t-shirts to buy, in case you're more of a Hulk fan.
 
All the US flags on the moon have now been bleached white by the sun. 
Alfonso Cuarón says he prefers the LEGO trailer for Gravity to his own. We're not sure we believe him. 
Harrison Ford has never seen Jurassic Park all the way through. 
Proof-reading a 40,000 word feature will tear your soul apart. 
The late, great Chuck Jones had the best uncle ever.
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  To mark the home entertainment release of snow-themed thriller Deadfall, we got a slushie maker! This is the sort of tasty lateral thinking that we're all over.
 
The Fifth Estate 
Disappointingly dull account of a tale desperately in need of a sharper screenplay and some directorial vim. Might as well wait for the Blu-ray, Jules. Also Out
 
Much Ado About Nothing 
It will require no conspiring to make you fall for this one; Whedon and Shakespeare are a perfect match. Also Out
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