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The biggest rule of a Knives Out mystery is, don’t expect the same thing as the last Knives Out mystery. The sun-soaked Glass Onion was a tonal switch-up from the autumnal family affair of Knives Out. And so, the upcoming Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will mark a similarly significant pivot from Rian Johnson’s last outing – a darker, Gothic-toned tale nodding to Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving, swapping the private Greek island setting for a pastoral New England town, where everyone’s faith is about to be tested. Into it all enters Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit…

Ostensibly, Avatar: The Way Of Water was the story of Jake and Neytiri’s Na’vi family. Of the return of baddie Miles Quaritch, now himself a Na’vi ‘recom’. Of old wounds, fresh conflicts, and shaky alliances playing out across Pandora. But alongside all of that, another thread captured audiences’ imaginations: the plight of Payakan, the mighty Tulkun space-whale who bonded with Jake’s wayward son Lo’ak, and made a human nemesis in Brendan Cowell’s Mick Scoresby, a maniacal mariner making a fortune from hunting down Tulkun and draining their ultra-valuable brain juices. Last time, a showdown between Scoresby and Payakan saw Scoresby…

Glen Powell is no stranger to action. He was, after all, a standout in Top Gun: Maverick, where he learned the secrets of high-flying setpieces under the wing of Tom Cruise. And he was a pure adrenaline junkie in Twisters as ‘tornado wrangler’ Tyler Owens, putting pedal to metal as he chased wild weather events for kicks. But The Running Man is different. In Edgar Wright’s fresh adaptation of the Stephen King novel, Powell’s Ben Richards will be… well, running, and fighting, and leaping into action, evading bullets, dodging killers, and scrambling for his life as he battles to win…

Earlier this year, Danny Boyle returned to the big screen with 28 Years Later, a horrifying examination of the dark side of humanity, the insidious capacity of the media to shape society in its image, and — basically — where it all went wrong for us Homo sapiens. Continuing in that vein then, Boyle’s next movie will be Ink, which is set to detail media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s rise to power in the late 1960s. And, according to THR, The Brutalist Oscar nominee Guy Pearce is currently in talks to play the mega-rich magnate. Per THR’s reporting, negotiations are ongoing…

Casinos have often been great fare for cinema. I mean, just look at Casino, in which Martin Scorsese (once again) went god-mode. Or, Ocean’s Eleven, still one of the coolest movies ever made. Even Zack Snyder found fun in Sin City when he dropped several zombies in Vegas for Army Of The Dead. Now, it’s the turn of filmmaker Edward Berger to capture the dazzling lights, dizzying highs, crushing losses, and hedonistic buzz of big-money games in Ballad Of A Small Player – another speedy return from the director in the wake of his Oscar-bothering Conclave and All Quiet On…

Legendary British actor Terence Stamp, Oscar nominated star of Billy Budd and beloved by legions for his role as General Zod in Richard Donner’s Superman, has died at the age of 87. In a statement shared with Reuters, Stamp’s family confirmed that he passed away on Sunday morning, and said the following: “He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come. We ask for privacy at this sad time.” Born in Stepney, London on 22 July 1938 to Ethel Esther and…

Going by the less-than-stellar box office figures, there’s a solid chance you may have decided to skip Thunderbolts* in cinemas. The middle film of this year’s Marvel triptych was its trickiest bet – a team-up of not-so-heroic figures largely introduced on the small screen, in a group without the most recognisable moniker. It’s no wonder Disney quickly let the cat out of the bag of the group actually being *The New Avengers. But, as you may have heard, the film is great – and if you’ve been waiting for it to hit Disney+, you’re in luck. The streamer has finally…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast will haunt your nightmares (but in a good way) as Chris Hewitt returns to the host chair just in time to tackle a Mount Rushmore question about the best Final Girls in horror movies with Beth Webb and Amon Warmann. Their final choices may shock you, but that’s nothing compared to the bit where Chris finds himself explaining Freddy Krueger to Amon, who has never seen a Nightmare On Elm Street movie. Terrifying stuff! Elsewhere in the show, our intrepid trio also discuss the week’s movie news (hello, Marty Supreme trailer!), and review…

If last year’s chilling Doctor Who episode ’73 Yards’ taught us anything, it’s this: don’t mess with fairy circles. It’s a lesson that Daphne (Rosy McEwen) and Darcy (Dev Patel), the married musicians at the centre of first-time feature filmmaker Bryn Chainey’s upcoming folk horror Rabbit Trap, probably wish they’d learnt before heading to rural Wales to work on their latest album. As we soon see in the first trailer for Chainey’s 70s set movie, tylwyth teg — or fairy folk, to the non-Welsh speaking among us — don’t take too kindly to having their peace disturbed, and finding the…

After nearly a month of release, James Gunn’s Superman has pulled in over $580 million (and counting) at the global box office. While that’s not a total runaway smash, it has proved a solid hit and a strong start to the new DCU – and it seems the next chapter in the ongoing Superman story is ticking away in Gunn’s brain. We have, of course, already got Supergirl due to arrive in June 2026, having finished filming earlier this summer, while Batman villain horror flick Clayface is going into production next from the DC stable – but, as Gunn said…