 |  Do YOU feel like you lack control over your own life? Do YOU wish that someone would just listen for a change? Well, we're here to help. By voting for this year's Jameson Empire Awards , you can ensure that your voice is heard by the richest, hottest and most powerful people in Hollywood. You hold the fate of the stars in your hands, readers! So choose your choices and vote: is Mud the clear favourite? Are you laying the hammer down for Thor? Is Captain Philips, o captain, your captain? Or are you linked in with Lincoln? Go ahead, vote: it will be valuable assertiveness training and you can tell your manager in your next assessment that you stuck up for the rights of much-derided minorities like, er, the cast of Cloud Atlas. Elsewhere on the site this week, we pay our personal tributes to the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman; brought you the greatest romantic gestures in cinema history (some Valentine's ideas there) and explained the most baffling film terms... Helen O'Hara
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  Transformers: Age Of Extinction Super Bowl Spot Brings The Dinobots
So, what were you expecting from the first footage look at Transformers: Age Of Extinction? Long stretches of Brechtian angst or silent contemplation of raindrops? Of course not! And the Super Bowl spot for the new slab of Bayhem features the usual: explosions, more explosions and all the robo-shots that ILM's hardworking team have had time to to produce. More: First Trailer For Hector And The Search For Happiness Simon Pegg's off on a quest. Final Divergent Trailer Lands Now with added backstory. Postman Pat Trailer Arrives Registered Delivery 'I'm just the Postman...' New Trailer For A New York Winter's Tale We believe in miracles, dammit. New Trailer Arrives For Enemy Welcome to Being Jake Gyllenhaal. Latest Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer Gets Supersized 'Time to catch a spider'. New Captain America: The Winter Soldier Trailer 'People are gonna die. Can't let that happen...' 24: Live Another Day Gets A Superbowl Teaser Three guesses where it's set... New Under The Skin Teaser Arrives Take a trip with Jonathan Glazer's latest. Noah's Superbowl Spot Arrives Russell Crowe floats our boat.
  A huge box of Valentine's chocolates and a DVD for Morgan Freeman film Once More. Don't tell anyone, but we think Morgan Freeman must have a crush on us.
 I'm trying to kill Helen with the Force!  A delighted James reacts with typical concern when I choke on a piece of lettuce.
Empire's Oscars Sweepstake 2014
Everyone's got their own idea of who's going to take home one of those coveted little gold statues on March 2nd, so why not put your mouse pointer where your mouth is, and take part in our annual Oscar sweepstake. And this year, if you guess as many catagories correctly as possible, you'll go into the hat to win an amazing 12-month Sky package which includes a Sky+HD box, free installation and year's subscription to the full Sky TV package. | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #97
On this week's podcast, Matthew McConaughey talks about his Oscar-nominated turn in Dallas Buyers Club, Spike Jonze explains Her and Gary Oldman discusses hanging out with Bowie and working for sandwiches... |
|  | | Film Studies 101: On-Set Jargon Explained
A film set can be a confusing place for an outsider, replete as it is with insider acronyms and strange vocabulary. Should you find yourself suddenly thrust on set and expected to know your way around, you might find this handy primer to common terms useful... |
|  | | Which Movies And TV Shows Should Lego Make Next?
The much-anticipated Lego Movie is released this month, complete with a plethora of film-related characters. But the internet has a huge range of bizarre and brilliant fan-made Lego concepts. While Lego's own stuff can be pretty cool, and they've started to look at fan concepts for other properties, we're impatient to see a few less-likely films make the cut... |
|  | | The Invisible Woman: Empire Meets Ralph Fiennes
Director, star and pin-up boy of the Victorian beard renaissance currently aflame in a tiny corner of Dalston, Ralph Fiennes had his work cut out on The Invisible Woman. The story of Charles Dickens and his secret affair with young actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), it's his second double-hander in a row, following Coriolanus, and sees him in top form on both sides of the camera. But did we ask him about crafting Dickens' porcelain love affair for the big screen? Well, a bit. Mostly, though, it was Victorian toys, Scalextric and his memories of The English Patient that were on Empire's agenda. |
|  | | 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 |
|  | | Behind The Scenes Gallery Of 2014's Nine Best Picture Nominees
Come March 2, the great and good of Hollywood will gather at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater to celebrate the best of each other's work over four hours of retina-melting glamour. Champagne will be quaffed, backs will be patted and at some point, Jennifer Lawrence will fall over. The most prized gong - Best Picture - will go to one of nine worthy contenders. Amid all the lovely dresses and tuxedos, it's easy to forget what went into making them. Allow us to take you behind the scenes... |
|  | | Philip Seymour Hoffman: Empire's Favourite Performances
The death of Philip Seymour Hoffman aged 46 has deprived modern cinema of one of its true greats. An Oscar winner with three other Academy Award nominations to his name, he was loved and admired by his peers. He was also loved and admired by audiences the world over, lighting up films both big (Mission: Impossible III) and small (Capote) with his chameleon presence, and even launching an embryonic career on the other side of the camera with Jack Goes Boating. As our tribute, Team Empire has picked the moments when we loved PSH the most. |
|  | | The Super Bowl Trailers 2014
Ah, the Super Bowl. The time of year when those looking to generate some additional hype and excitement know that there is a massive, reliable audience watching the big game across the pond (plus paying attention online) and that it's a good time to show off TV spots for this year's crop of wannabe-blockbusters. From those that will be fighting for our attention this summer, like Michael Bay's latest techno-beast, to the films about to hit, such as Darren Aronofsky getting Biblical with Noah, these are the trailers that caught our eye this year... |
|  | | 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. |
 
Hans Zimmer loves Post-it stickers. 
Dylan McDermott drinks coffee at Empire's local when in London. 
Liam Neeson is a catch-and-release fisher. 
Matthew Modine is baffled by London house prices. 
Gary Oldman regularly hangs out with David Bowie. We're trying to imagine a cooler pairing than that and coming up short.
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Dallas Buyers Club 
Get this - Matthew McConaughey is currently the most exciting acting talent at work in movies. Next up, the simple business of a Christopher Nolan. Also Out
 
Rush
It rarely deviates from formula, but Rush wins big, delivering the most exciting F1 footage created for film. Like Hunt, it is sexy, funny, full of thrills. Like Lauda, it is intelligent, a bit blunt, but ultimately touching. Also Out
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