 |  This week began with a bang with the biggest and best Empire Awards ever . Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emma Thompson, James McAvoy, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, J.J. Abrams, Paul Greengrass and many more were there to celebrate the last year in movies, and we have the full story of the night on the site. Winner's speeches, red carpet photos and much, much more are there for your viewing amusement, so head on over and feel part of the action. Elsewhere, we've been sheltering from the Sahara dust-smog watching this week's wealth of new releases and interviewing the people responsible, from Russell Crowe to Richard Ayoade. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  Lucy Trailer Shoots In
We already know that Scarlett Johansson can kick ass: her rendition of Natasha "Black Widow" Romanoff in the Marvel cinematic universe should surely be evidence of that. Luc Besson clearly also saw the action heroine lurking within the dramatic actress and has Johansson starring in his latest thriller, Lucy, which has a new trailer fresh in. More: Latest Trailer For The Expendables 3 Hits One last ride? Shaun The Sheep Teaser Trailer Online Things go from baa to worse for our hero. Two New Pompeii TV Spots Online The mountain comes to Kit Harrington. Exclusive: First Ten Minutes Of Wrinkles Martin Sheen's vest wing. UK Trailer For The Young & Prodigious T.S. Spivet Jean-Pierre Jeunet takes us on a journey... New Trailer For Wolf Creek 2 Online Putting the laughs back in Outback murdering. The Drop Trailer Lands Online There are some sins you commit you can't come back from... New Postman Pat Trailer Lands Return to sender. Red Band Trailer For Sex Tape Uploads Online Segel and Diaz go The Full Lincoln. No Joke Cut Of Anchorman 2 Gets A Trailer In other news: Doby gets Blackfish-style documentary.
  Fab 3D figures of myself, James Dyer and Mark Dinning as Black Widow, the Winter Soldier and Captain America respectively. Here's how they did it.
 Oh look, it's Adele Dazim!  Hugh Jackman, walking into our radio studio and seeing a picture of Idina Menzel.
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It's been five years since we last polled you to establish the Greatest Films of All Time. In the meantime, great new movies have been released and many of you have no doubt been itching to correct injustices or oversights you spotted last time around. Well, now's your chance. Vote for five films below that you think represent the very best of cinema, and ensure that your best-loved movies make it into the rankings for our 301st issue. Will The Godfather hang on to the top spot? Will Star Wars still place highly with J.J. Abrams preparing a new instalment? Can newcomers like Gravity or 12 Years A Slave make their mark? It's all in your hands, so get voting! | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #105
Four big films are coming out this weekend - Noah, The Double, Divergent and Rio 2 - which may or may not have something to do with half term arriving. (Hint: it definitely does). In honour of two of said films, there are two interviewees this week, starting with the most beautiful Spix's Macaw parrot in cinema, Anne Hathaway, and ending with professional flood wrangler Darren Aronosfky. Expect stories about punching people in the face. |
|  | | The Muppets Movies Ranked By Weirdness
The following feature lists each theatrically released Muppet movie from least weird to most weird, with help from Muppets Most Wanted and The Muppets director James Bobin. As a TV movie, The Muppets' Wizard Of Oz does not feature on this list, but if it did, Quentin Tarantino's violently enthusiastic action sequence pitch to Kermit would get a mention, since it's about as muppetational as you could possibly imagine. If you're interested, watch QT being interviewed by Pepe The Prawn here. Naturally, weirdness is in the eye of the beholder, so if there are any especially nutzo moments not mentioned, be sure to say so in the comment box. |
|  | | Jemaine Clement Talks Rio 2, Big Beards And David Bowie
Jemaine Clement: musician, actor, comedian, David Bowie enthusiast and one of the best known New Zealanders in the world. Also, the voice of Nigel, an evil cockatoo in the first Rio movie and now its sequel, Rio 2, which sees the flightless fowl still chasing after Jesse Eisenberg's Blu and Anne Hathaway's Jewel as they head deep into the Amazon rainforest. It's been a while since the internet's been blessed with a lengthy text interview with Clement, so here's your latest update. "Thanks for checking up on me!" he says. "How am I doing? How am I feeling? Where do I live? I have no idea." |
|  | | The Amazing Double Life of Vic Armstrong
Empire is tucked away below ground at the London Film Museum's Bond In Motion exhibition in Covent Garden. Surrounded by Roger Moore's Lotus Esprit S1, Pierce Brosnan's BMW 750L and Daniel Craig's Aston Martin DBS we're in the right place to receive one of cinema's less heralded heroes: professional stuntman and action director Vic Armstrong. Politely refusing the canapés on offer, sipping from a glass of water and clad in a suit his secret agent doppelganger would be proud to wear, the man who's spent his life cheating death turns his attention on us. Empire lines up the crosshairs, clicks play on its Q-approved Dictaphone and delves into the memory banks of one of cinema's greatest stunt performers... |
|  | | 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 |
|  | | Russell Crowe Takes Empire's IMDbunker Quiz
Is Russell Crowe planning on donating his brain to science upon this death? Was he really called Rusty when he was a kid? Did he enjoy playing a character called "Russ Le Roq" early on in his entertainment career? And why is he a Leeds United Fan? Find out the answers to all these questions and more as Noah himself sorts the IMDb fact from the IMDb fiction. |
|  | | Divergent Interviews: Shailene Woodley And Neil Burger
Divergent envisions a world where people are divided into factions based on human virtues - but it's one where those with an aptitude for more than one faction find themselves under threat from the authorities. One such is the lead, Tris, played by Shailene Woodley, and we spoke to the star and her director Neil Burger about the challenges of bringing this story to the screen... |
|  | | Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee Talk Frozen
About a month ago, the morning after the BAFTAs, Empire sat down with directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee to talk about the billion-dollar film that has swept awards seasons (soon after this conversation, they also hoisted an Oscar) and become a firm fan favourite already. Ahead of the film's DVD release, here is the full interview... |
|  | | Jeese Eisenberg And Richard Ayoade Talk The Double
The Double is a film about a man and his doppelgänger. Or, at the risk of repetition, about a doppelgänger and his man. Or about two men who happen to look exactly alike but behave in very different ways, depending on the way you're looking at it. Playing both men is Jesse Eisenberg and directing "both men" is Richard Ayoade, and together they are the stars of their very own Empire video interview, a twisting labyrinth of questions, answers, answers and questions. You'll soon get the hang of it. |
|  | | Find The Movie Props And Win Empire Magazine Signed By Tom Cruise
A nice image, you might think, with Tom Cruise looking remarkably handsome in the middle. But it's much more than that! Examine this photo closely, and you'll see that it contains 22 references to 22 different Cruise films. If you can spot them all and email your answers to us you could win an Empire subscribers cover signed by Cruise himself. |
|  | | Kate Winslet Takes Empire's IMDbunker
Kate Winslet has survived Titanic, been nominated for bazillion Oscars and was recently seen making sexy pies with Josh Brolin in Labor Day. She's played heroines and survivors, ingénues and battlers. She's never played a baddie, though... at least, until now. In Divergent she's the arch villainess who presides with cruel efficiency over a world that's hardly lacking in the stuff. Empire, ever dauntless, ploughed in to do a spot of IMDb fact checking and sort the truth wheat from the falsehood chat on her trivia page. |
|  | | Empire Presents the New York Film Academy
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 An Easy Money II money bag cake, to mark the film's DVD & Blu-ray release on Monday April 7. We're rich! At least in calories!
 
Sam Claflin's favourite Norwich City player is Darren Eadie. 
Lukas Moodysson wishes there was a Lego set for Together but thinks the fish fingers would be too small in brick. 
Darren Aronofsky is very fond of Rolos. 
Kate Winslet can't spell the surname of her character from Eternal Sunshine, at least from memory. Fair enough; neither can we. 
Empire's Master of the Web James Dyer has hidden talents that include didgeridoo playing.
 |  | |  | |  | |  |  | | All Shakespeare's plays, in three panel comics. | | Some amazing Godzilla posters. | | Stanley Kubrick's predictions for the year 2001, made in 1968. | | Pop culture, Byzantium style. |
If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  Some funky Xbox One compatible Titanfall headphones from Turtle Beach. Given how badly we've been getting murderised in Respawn's shooter we could certainly use the edge.
 
Noah 
Inventive, ambitious, brutal and beautiful: a potent mythological epic. But also wilfully challenging, as likely to infuriate as inspire, whether through its unmitigated Old Testament harshness or its eco-message revisionism. If only more blockbusters were like this. Also Out
 
Wake In Fright 
A well-warranted remastering of his Aussie new wave classic. Also Out
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