Author: Empire

Like Rick Astley with love, when it comes to horror movies you know the rules and so do we. Scream. Run. Fight for your life. Pretty straightforward, right? But what if you couldn’t scream, you couldn’t run, and you couldn’t fight for your life? What if instead, minute by minute, your entire body was slowly closing down as your would-be killer slowly closes in? That’s the hook of Brian Netto and Adam Schindler’s inbound Netflix chiller Don’t Move, which takes the notion of being frozen with fear quite literally as it follows the nightmare experience of Kelsey Asbille’s (Yellowstone) Iris,…

Forget ‘Send In The Clowns’ — how about ‘Send Down The Clown’? That certainly looks to be the idea in the latest trailer for Todd Phillips all-singing, all-dancing movie with music Joker: Folie À Deux, which sees Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck taking to the stand as he goes on trial for the televised killing of Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro) in Joker. Joining him in the courtroom — and Arkham Asylum (and in a slew of fantastical musical_esque_ sequences) — is Harley “Lee” Quinn, with whom yer man Joker strikes up a potentially romantic, definitely dangerous bond. Check out the…

Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage playing criminal twins in an action comedy from the director of Palm Springs, one of the funniest films of the decade, is a hell of an elevator pitch. And it’s exactly what we’re going to be getting with Max Barbakow’s Amazon MGM Studios joint Brothers, a wackadoodle crime caper poured from The Toxic Avenger writer Macon Blair’s pen and dreamt up by The Bad Guys’ Etan Cohen. Throw in Glenn Close as the dastardly duo’s deranged mother, Brendan Fraser as the screw loose crook tailing our anti-heroes across America, and Marisa Tomei singing “Suck on…

Back in 2018, music icon and Odd Future alum Tyler, the Creator shouted out Dune star Timothée Chalamet on his track ‘Okra’. “Tell Tim Chalamet to come get at me / Skin glowin’ , clear of acne” rapped the beat maker about noted hip-hop lover Chalamet. And whilst it’s taken six years, it looks like Chalamet has indeed come and gotten at Mr. the Creator after all. According to Deadline, the rapper — whose real name is Tyler Gregory Okonma — is set to make his feature film debut in Marty Supreme, Chalamet and filmmaker Josh Safdie’s upcoming A24 ping…

When it comes to Stephen King adaptations, it really can go one of two ways. Sometimes you get a Stand By Me, The Shining, or The Shawshank Redemption; and other times you get a Pet Sematary (1989), a Dark Tower, or, well, another Pet Sematary (2019). And after numerous delays and scrapped theatrical release plans stateside, you could be forgiven for thinking that Gary Dauberman’s upcoming take on King’s vampire classic Salem’s Lot — already well adapted before as a miniseries back in 1979 — is bound to be one of those other times. But if the atmospheric new trailer…

There’s nothing quite like a luxurious jaunt to a sun-soaked locale to bring folk together, as we’ve learned from Destination Wedding, Ticket To Paradise, Anyone But You, and oh so many other movies over the years. With upcoming Netflix resort romance Lonely Planet, it looks like writer-director Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) is set to add a little more depth to the ordinarily comedy heavy sub-genre. Here, Laura Dern stars as Katherine, a novelist whose Moroccan retreat to conquer her writer’s block puts her on a collision course with Liam Hemsworth’s Owen, a younger man facing his own crisis of confidence.…

As the prophets of De La Soul once proclaimed, “Three, that’s the magic number!” Yes folks, that’s right — for the second week on the bounce we have a terrific trio of guests joining us on the Empire Podcast. First up, our features editor Alex Godfrey speaks no evil — and speaks Speak No Evil — with the psychological thriller remake’s star (and podcast regular) James McAvoy [19:49 — 34:40 approx]. Then, Amon Warmann sits down for a chat with Kate Winslet, star of wartime biopic Lee [56:50 – 1:12:15 approx]. (Also, thanks to Sam Clements for the emergency podcast…

Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen’s is one of the all-time great Hollywood bromances. As Star Wars’ Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the duo have fought alongside one another, with one another, and given fans some of the most iconic moments in modern cinema. It’s not without good reason that Christensen and McGregor’s on-screen reunion in 2022’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series — and the recent, long overdue cultural reappraisal of the Prequel Trilogy — has triggered a swell of warm and fuzzies across the galaxy. And yesterday, as McGregor — whose illustrious filmography also includes Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge, and Doctor Sleep among…

Steady your sandworms and sound the space bagpipes — Dune news coming through! It’s been an interesting few months for fans of the DCU (that’s the Dune Cinematic Universe), with confirmation coming back in April that a Dune Part Three is officially in the works at Legendary, and then further reports in June placing an ‘Untitled Event Film’ from director Denis Villeneuve in Warner Bros.’ slate for December 2026. Now, in an interview with Vanity Fair for their “Little Gold Men” podcast, Villeneuve has confirmed that Dune: Messiah is currently being written — and, more importantly, that the Quebecois filmmaker’s…

The film industry just lost a titan – the legendary James Earl Jones, who passed away at the age of 93. And among his many iconic performances – in The Lion King, Conan The Barbarian, Coming To America, Field Of Dreams to name but a few – he will always hold the position of voicing Star Wars’ greatest villain: the inimitable Darth Vader. Across the original trilogy, plus Revenge Of The Sith, Rogue One, The Rise Of Skywalker and more, Jones lent his unmistakable boom to one of the all-time-great big screen baddies. And in the wake of his passing,…