Author: Empire

Who’s ready to return to Pandora? Across Avatar and its belated follow-up Avatar: The Way Of Water, cinematic master James Cameron has taken audiences into the lush jungles, crystal waters, and serene skies of the verdant Na’vi moon – and at the end of 2025 he’s going to do it all over again with the third instalment in the series, Avatar: Fire And Ash. The next chapter of the Sully story will take Jake and Neytiri’s family into uncharted territory, meeting a new batch of Na’vi with their own relationship to the land – and things might not go as…

The horror scene in 2024 was dominated by Longlegs. Osgood Perkins’ occultist shocker became an instant genre classic – not just for its ‘Silence Of The Lambs goes to hell’ vibe, or that Nicolas Cage performance. It was also full of surprises, narrative and tonally, taking audiences on a wild ride. And with his imminent new film, Perkins is ready to take fans by surprise all over again. The Monkey – a loose Stephen King adaptation – is an absurdist tale of death-by-toy-ape, one that aims to take the undercurrent of dark humour in Longlegs and bring it to the…

When Danny Boyle and Alex Garland unleashed 28 Days Later back in 2002, they also introduced something new into the horror ecosystem: the running dead. Previously, zombies in cinema had been slow, shuffling, shambling things, creeping ever-forward in the night. But the very nature of 28 Days Later’s infected – technically not zombies, but humans who have contracted a blood-spewing rage virus – saw the afflicted sprint at a terrifying pace, with heart-pounding results. Even decades on, the cardio-prone terrors have lost none of their power – as Jodie Comer found out on the set of Boyle and Garland’s much-anticipated…

In bleak and troubled times, sometimes all it takes is seeing Jason Statham scowling in a hardhat to make it feel like maybe everything will be okay in the end after all. And that’s exactly what we get in the no fuss, no muss first trailer for A Working Man, the Stath’s latest team-up with The Beekeeper director David Ayer. Boasting a screenplay co-written by Ayer alongside action icon Sylvester Stallone, this one — surely the second in what will come to be known as The Three (Blue) Collars Trilogy — sees Stath play brilliantly named ex-black ops agent Levon…

When Alien: Romulus arrived last summer, it brought cinema’s greatest sci-fi-horror franchise screaming into new life, chestbursting a new Xenomorph rampage onto the big screen. And for the most part, Fede Alvarez’s film – set between the events of Alien and Aliens – revelled in played around with the established iconography of the series so far, touching on everything from Prometheus to Alien: Resurrection, while also liberally paying homage to Ridley Scott and James Cameron’s classics. Those callbacks didn’t always come without controversy – one surprise awaiting audiences was the arrival of android character Rook, given the face of the…

With 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are preparing to take audiences further into the post-rage-virus apocalypse than ever before. In their original 28 Days Later, the societal collapse had only really just begun. But decades on, there are scattered survivors finding a way to live in the ruins of what came before – not just the Holy Island community that plays home to Aaron-Taylor Johnson’s Jamie, Jodie Comer’s Isla, and their son Spike (Alfie Williams), but other mysterious figures. Take, for instance, Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Kelson – a physically imposing figure who’ll play a part both in…

It’s been decades now since Danny Boyle and Alex Garland first went viral. Back in 2002, the acclaimed filmmaker and then-novelist teamed up on a true horror game-changer – rewriting the foundations of the zombie genre in 28 Days Later, with its fast-running rage-infected (not-actually-zombie) hordes. Now, 18 years on from sequel 28 Weeks Later (made without Boyle and Garland), the original creators are returning with 28 Years Later – the beginning of an epic new era in the apocalyptic flesh-eating saga, with all-new characters, a fresh world to explore, and narratively-ambitious plans spanning three films. The rage has only…

It’s almost a year to the day since we shared the news that Aussie actor Jacob Elordi, star of Saltburn and Priscilla, would be replacing Andrew Garfield in Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein movie. And now, in what is perilously close to becoming an annual tradition, today brings with it news that Elordi is set to step in once again to replace the lead in a revered auteur’s next literary adaptation. Yes, per Variety’s reporting, the in demand actor — soon to be seen in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie — is being eyed to replace Paul Mescal…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that, right now, video game adaptations are all the rage. The latest Sonic The Hedgehog movie took that franchise past $1 billion at the box office, The Super Mario Bros. Movie took over a billion dollars on its own, and small screen fare like The Last Of Us, Fallout, and The Witcher have brought critical acclaim alongside commercial success. It’s a trend that Sony and PlayStation Productions have clearly been paying close attention to, as they just announced cinematic takes on Horizon: Zero Dawn and Helldivers — and a new Ghost Of Tsushima anime…

The red carpet has been rolled out, the suits and gowns have been set free, and the statuettes have been shined, which can only mean one thing: Awards season is back back back! Last night, at a ceremony in Los Angeles hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, it was the 2025 Golden Globes’ turn to kick off the Hollywood festivities, offering us our first real sense of the top dogs and dark horses as the BAFTAs and Oscars inch ever nearer. And so far, Jacques Audiard’s trans mobster musical Emilia Pérez and Brady Corbet’s monumental epic The Brutalist are leading the…