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The latest episode of the Empire Podcast sees the team — Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara, Alex Godfrey, and James Dyer — go simply ga-ga for Olivia Wilde’s new film, The Invite. In fact, Wilde is this week’s guest, along with her co-star, Edward Norton, who have a lovely natter with Mr. Godfrey. Either side of that, the team talk about movies in which people bounce back after being made redundant, discuss the week’s movie news, including the new trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf and Supergirl’s somewhat disappointing box office debut, and review not just The Invite, but also Nirvanna: The…

Stop The Clocks! Dig Out Your Soul! Be Here Now! Yes, those are Definitely Maybe all titles of albums by Mancunian rockers Oasis — but they’re also all things that fans of the Gallagher brothers, Liam and Noel, should do at this very moment. Why? Because the supersonic first teaser trailer for Don’t Look Back In Anger, creator Steven Knight and directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s (Meet Me In The Bathroom) access all areas, IMAX-bound Oasis Live ’25 reunion tour documentary just dropped — that’s why! And you can check it out below; C’mon you know that looks like…

For an art still in its relative infancy, cinema has had a great many New Waves — French, German, Australian, Indian, British, Japanese… you get the idea. Now it seems we’re entering the era of the Welsh New Wave, with exciting projects like Madfabulous, Effi O Blaenau, Mr. Burton, and upcoming Aimee Ffion Edwards led western Lluest thrusting Cymru into the cinematic spotlight. And it’s a trend that’s set to continue with the newly announced Mountain, a coming-of-age yarn directed by Madfabulous’ Celyn Jones and starring Peter Mullan, Iwan Rheon, newcomer Seth Isaac Thomas, and — making her cinematic lead…

@Studio Ghibli / Studiocanal Good news for UK-based Studio Ghibli fans – the legendary Japanese anime studio has found a new home on these shores. In recent years, Ghibli films (including recent releases Earwig And The Witch, and The Boy And The Heron) have been distributed in the UK by Elysian Film Group. But after that banner went into liquidation earlier this summer, it’s been unknown who will take over those rights. Now we have an answer: GKIDS, a major player in the animation space, is now overseeing the Ghibli library in the UK and Ireland – and there are…

Ready to go back to the Backrooms? Well, A24 certainly is. As Kane Parsons’ creepypasta inspired liminal space chiller Backrooms soars past the $330 million mark at the global box office, further cementing the horror movie’s status as A24’s highest grossing movie yet, the studio has dug around its own backrooms and pulled out 15 more minutes of hazy horror goodness for fans. Yes, Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition is coming to UK and US cinemas this weekend — as the below social media announcement from A24 shows: Neither truly an extended or director’s cut of Backrooms, Parsons’ Everything Must…

When you think of dinosaur movies, there’ one franchise that rules them all: the Jurassic saga, that began with Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, and still continues to pull big box office today. While there have been other major movies involving prehistoric beasts – from early stop-motion cinema, to Peter Jackson’s King Kong, and recently the Adam Driver-starring 65 – it all comes back to that dinosaur theme park. But this summer comes The End Of Oak Street, a different kind of dino movie, from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell. Produced by JJ Abrams, it sees a suburban street –…

You’d imagine that, in the wake of Barbarian and Weapons – two of the best and buzziest horror films in recent years – all kinds of franchises came calling to filmmaker Zach Cregger. But as it turns out, Resident Evil was entirely his choice. For his third feature as director, Cregger is presenting his own story set in the world of the video game saga he loves, with all-new characters and spooky setpieces – and he was the one who approached the rights owners. “They were kind enough to hear me out and let me run with it,” Cregger tells…

Here’s a conundrum: since The Odyssey is, famously, one of the most mythical stories ever told – stacked with fantastic beasts, told on a gigantic scale – how do you imbue it with a sense of realism? The answer is, with a bit of Christopher Nolan magic. This, after all, is the director who gave Gotham true grit in the Dark Knight trilogy, and flung audiences to the far reaches of space with scientifically-accurate physics in Interstellar. And so, for his Ancient Greek blockbuster, he went all-out to place audiences right next to Odysseus on his treacherous journey home to…

You can always count on Robert Pattinson to bring something unexpected to a role. This, after all, is the guy who based his two Mickey 17 clones on Ren and Stimpy, who transformed his voice completely to dub a cantankerous magic bird in The Boy And The Heron, and brought emo grit to Bruce Wayne in The Batman. And in The Odyssey – his second collaboration with Christopher Nolan, following Tenet – he’s relishing playing the villain. He takes on the role of Antinous, an antagonistic figure back in Odysseus’ home of Ithaca; who, hoping that our far-flung hero is out of the picture…

This week’s Empire Podcast might see Chris Hewitt and Helen O’Hara write their own ticket, folks, as they come up with an idea for Toy Story 6 that should, if there’s any justice, be in production by the end of the weekend. Pixar, call us! That comes in the movie news section, where there is also much discussion of trailers and the prospect of a new Jim Carrey Grinch sequel. Either side of those, the gang — Chris, Helen, Amon Warmann, James Dyer, and this week’s workie, Juliet Duff, who pops in for a cameo from time to time —…