 |  Enjoy your rest this weekend, because this is the calm before the storm. Come Monday, we have some seriously thrilling X-Men excitement to unveil, and you need to start off calm so you don't collapse into a puddle of pure anticipation by noon. We have been keeping exactly what's coming somewhat under wraps, but Bryan Singer tweeted last night and let at least a cat-whisker out of the bag, so make sure you're following @EmpireMagazine on Twitter on Monday for all the latest. It's going to be Magneto-cent (like magnificent? No? Sorry). To keep you going till then, our Oscars coverage has kicked up a gear with the start of our nominee profiles in all the major categories, so you'll know just what to say when arguing with friends about Jonah Hill's chances of winning an Oscar. We've also been chatting to the stars of Girls and Inside Llewyn Davis, and our Damon Wise has been reporting on all the big news from Sundance. Now, if you'll excuse us, we're off to continue our research into the human gene and its capacity to mutate... Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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Just as the New Year was dawning, we got the most recent trailer for The Raid 2: Berandal. Now here comes one aimed at American audiences which may give too much of the chaos away. The good news is that director Gareth Evans has promised that there's so much stuffed into this film that we're really just scratching the surface. Watch with caution anyway. More: New Starred Up Trailer Thumps In The Brit prison drama gets a poster too. New Red Band Welcome To The Jungle Trailer Jean-Claude Van Damme busts some comedy moves. Oculus Trailer Wants To Creep You Out Karen Gillian reflects on terror. The Babadook Trailer Stalks Online Don't let him in! New Robocop Clip Crashes In Featuring the Chairman of the Circuit Board. First Clip From A Most Wanted Man Philip Seymour Hoffman also wants answers. Latest Maleficent Trailer Appears Online There is an evil in this world...' New Trailer For 300: Rise Of An Empire For glory's sake... WAR.' New Cuban Fury Trailer Lands Online 'Legs of a stallion, arms of an eagle.'
  Some Grudge Match gloves, helmets and hoodies for the film's cinema release today. These are regulation gloves and helmet, right? We wouldn't want to go into the ring under-equipped.
 There's nobody else I can be, so I may as well be the best me I can be.  Dan gets philosophical.
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Done In 60 Seconds Competition
If you're still slaving away over your Done In Sixty Seconds submission, despair not! We have extended the deadline, so you now have until January 31st to get us your mini-masterpieces and prove that two-hour features are for storytelling wimps too afraid to cram it all into a single minute. With a panel of industry experts positively slavering for submissions, it's all still to play! | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #96
The fourth Jack Ryan, Chris Pine, drops by the Empire Podcast booth to talk about Leeds nightclubs, hating computer games and singing 'Agony' in the upcoming Into The Woods. The first (and probably only) Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac, also drops by the Empire Podcast booth, instead talking about "cat agitators", "ass agitators" and having sex with robots. |
|  | | Oscars 2014 Cheat Sheets
As is traditional now that the Academy Award nominations have been announced, we're profiling the nominees in each of the main categories and assessing their strengths and weaknesses going into the competition. Oscars 2014 Cheat Sheet: Best Actress Oscars 2014 Cheat Sheet: Best Supporting Actress Oscars 2014 Cheat Sheet: Best Supporting Actor Oscars 2014 Cheat Sheet: Best Original Screenplay Oscars 2014 Cheat Sheet: Best Adapted Screenplay |
|  | | Lena Dunham And Jennifer Konner On Girls Season 3
Lena Dunham is the star and creator of HBO's award-winning sitcom Girls. Jennifer Konner is the show's self-confessed "den mother", producing and writing every series with Dunham. Together, they are a lot of fun in this video interview in honour of the third season arriving in the UK on Sky Atlantic HD, airing new episodes on Mondays at 10pm starting January 19. Look forward to giggle-filled answers to absurd questions throughout, and only one mention of the word "puma". |
|  | | 10 TV Webisode Series You Should Watch
Sherlock is the latest in a long line of TV shows to indulge in a bit of online spin-offery, giving all Cumberbabes and Freemasons a chance to see a smidge more of Holmes and Watson before the new series started. Inspired by that tantalising tidbit, here is a compilation of our favourite webisodes and webi-series, from Battlestar Galactica to Breaking Bad (and back again)... |
|  | | Win A Film Download, Takeaway Every Sunday With Fox Searchlight!
Throughout 2014, Empire will be giving readers the chance to win a Digital HD copy of a Fox Searchlight film, plus a £25 hungryhouse.co.uk voucher to order their favourite takeaway online. Just head to Twitter each Sunday (make sure you're following @empiremagazine ) and answer the quiz question posed, tagging your tweet with #SearchlightSundays. In addition, there will be a chance to win flights to Utah and hotel accommodation during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival! Click here for full details |
|  | | Inside Llewyn Davis: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman Interviews
Inside Llewyn Davis is the latest film from the Coen brothers, so it's immediately a must-see. As luck would have it, it's also a brilliant tale about a folk singer in 1960s New York, played by Oscar Isaac, and the various disasters which befall him (most of which he invites on himself). We spoke to Isaac and co-stars Carey Mulligan and John Goodman to get the lowdown on the most Oscar-snubbed film of the year... |
|  | | 50 Great Actor And Director Partnerships
De Niro and Scorsese. DiCaprio and Scorsese. Johns Ford and Wayne. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Cinema history is full of serendipitous actor/director pairings, creative partnerships that seem to drive both parties to greater creative heights. But which ones really changed cinema history, or produced the most consistent hit rate? Which BFFs truly inspire one another? And who stuck together through thick and thin to make masterpieces? We assess the best of the best... |
|  | | Empire Meets... Xan Cassavetes
Following her documentary on the late, lamented Z Channel, Xan Cassavetes' latest film is a tribute of a different kind. A sensual Gothic romance that homages classic '60s and '70s Eurohorror, Kiss Of The Damned sees beautiful vampire Djuna (Joséphine de La Baume) succumb to the charms of human screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia). The film has been on the festival circuit for the last year or so, and finally gets a full release in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray later this month. With that in mind, we caught up with Xan and asked her to share her thoughts on bringing the undead to rural Connecticut... |
|  | | The Top Five Chiwetel Ejiofor Moments
Pride of London's Forest Gate, Chiwetel Ejiofor is up for his first Academy Award at this year's Oscars - and richly deserved it is too, even if it made his sister cry. As Solomon Northrup, a free man who is kidnapped and forced into labour on a Louisiana plantation, he is 12 Years A Slave's standout turn, no mean feat considering the cast. But as our career highlights guide illustrates, he's been terrific for as long as we can remember. A warm, serious-minded man, his name will tiptoe tentatively across many pairs of lips between now and Oscars night - hey, it's easy with our handy pronunciation guide - and if yours is one of them you'll need our quickfire run-through to swot up on his best moments. |
|  | | Sundance 2014
You think it's cold here? Spare a thought for our Damon Wise, who's halfway up a mountain in Utah, probably in some sort of polar vortex, battling his way from screening to screening with the help of a team of huskies and several levels of fur clothing to bring you the latest news from the festival. Click here to read his dispatches and hear about the indie films that we'll be going nuts for in the next year... |
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 A knitting kit to make a cat hat, in tribute to Inside Llewyn Davis' copious knitwear and ubiquitous cat. As soon as we figure out how to knit, we'll be rocking the folk musician look.
 
Chris Pine is a huge fan of Monmouth Coffee. His is a flat white, if you're buying. 
Peter Berg is known to fellow boxers as "The Sniper". 
In the future of Spike Jonze's Her, everyone will dress like LA hipsters do today. 
There's a Big Bang Theory Cluedo game. Our guess is always going to be that Sheldon did it, in the lab, with the bat'leth. 
A "commash" is a dash, then a comma (or a comma, then a dash). They look like this: —, (or like this ,—).
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  An old-fashioned phone attachment for our mobiles, for those who eschew the modern world, to mark the home entertainment release of Halle Berry in The Call.
 
Inside Llewyn Davis 
Inside Llewyn Davis throbs with melancholy, hunches under heavy skies, revels in music history's unsexiest scene and unapologetically leaves you dangling. It is also beautiful, heartfelt and utterly enthralling. Also Out
 
White House Down 
Lincoln meets Sudden Death: a corny but raucous throwback to when Planet Hollywood was hip. Gary Busey popping out of a rose bush wouldn't feel out of place. Also Out
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