Author: Empire

Daisy Ridley has done all sorts since leaving the Star Wars galaxy behind (for now). She’s swum the channel in Young Woman And The Sea, faced oblivion in Sometimes I Think About Dying, and used her producer muscle to bring Magpie to the screen. Next up? She’s encountering zombies in We Bury The Dead – her first time facing the undead since she battled the resurrected Palpatine in Episode IX. This time she stars as Ava, searching for her husband after a devastating incident – only to find that the dead won’t stay dead. Watch the trailer: We Bury The…

Over the last four decades, Nicolas Kim Coppola — or, as we know him best, Nic Cage — has gotten into some serious cinematic scrapes, fighting everyone from John Travolta (Face/Off) to Morgana le Fay (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) to his kids (Mom And Dad) to, well, himself (The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent). In Lotfy Nathan’s upcoming supernatural horror joint The Carpenter’s Son though, Cage — alongside FKA twigs and Noah Jupe — is about to face the ultimate foe: Satan. Yeah, it’s Nic Cage vs The Devil in a horror movie of quite literally biblical proportions here — and…

Hey folks, do you want to feel incredibly old incredibly quickly on this fine Monday evening? We thought so, too. It has been 18 years — yes, 1-8 — since David Silverman’s The Simpsons Movie hit cinemas worldwide, bringing Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and the residents of Springfield to the big screen for the first time in an all-out blockbuster that gave us Under The Dome before Stephen King’s Under The Dome, *that* emotional sucker-punch Homer log cabin scene, and, most importantly, Ploppe the pig. Now, from seemingly straight outta nowhere, 20th Century Studios has just announced The Simpsons…

When you think of proper A-list Hollywood stars, few names would be higher up the list than George Clooney – having made big franchise fare, intimate character dramas, and been a media mainstay for decades along the way. So, his role in Jay Kelly – the new film from Noah Baumbach – may have hit close to home, with Clooney playing the titular character, a proper worldwide A-list movie star, reflecting on his life, his roles, and his relationship to his daughter in a moment of soul-searching. Check out the latest trailer: This one looks like Baumbach on more conventional…

You might want to slap on some Factor 50 (or, honestly, about 5000) before your next visit to Pandora, folks — things are seriously heating up in the new trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire And Ash. With the blockbuster auteur’s sci-fi saga set to continue in less than three months’ time and the movie’s promotional push now in full flow, Disney has just dropped an epic new trailer for Cameron’s latest — and it is intense. For a closer look at Oona Chaplin’s villainous Varang and her Mangkwan clan’s roots, and the fresh conflict that’s set to bring Jake…

Everyone’s favourite gruff, world-saving everyman John Garrity — aka Gerard Butler — is back, dusting off his apocalypse gear for Greenland 2: Migration, Ric Roman Waugh’s sequel to his own surprisingly kinda brilliant 2021 disaster flick Greenland. And if the first trailer for Garrity’s return is anything to go by, then it looks like things are about to get even more intense than last time as Gerry B’s apocalyptic fight for survival continues. Take a look at it here: After a reminder of how much shit hit the fan in the first film, the new trailer catches up with the…

This week’s episode of the Empire Film Podcast is one of those jam-packed ones in which we specialise, folks — so buckle up! Guest-wise, Chris Hewitt is blessed with the presence of our old chum, Brett Goldstein, who talks beards, bums, and baring his soul in new Apple TV+ romantic drama, All Of You [18:37 — 36:33 approx]; and Chris also has a lovely chat with Dame Emma Thompson as she enters her action hero era in Dead Of Winter. [1:01:07 — 1:16:03 approx.] And as if that weren’t enough to get us all giddy, Alex Godfrey also chips in…

At first we didn’t believe it. Then we couldn’t believe it. Hell, there were some among us who maybe didn’t even want to believe it. But, somehow, Spaceballs returned. And now, over a year after we learned of Mel Brooks, Josh Gad, and Josh Greenbaum’s Spaceballs 2 plans, and just a few short months after the bombshell dropped that Rick Moranis would be coming out of retirement to star alongside Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, and Brooks himself in the surprise sci-fi spoof sequel, we’ve got our first look at the old gang back together again — along with some new…

Across the Alien movies, there’s been a rich tradition of outstanding android performances. In Ridley Scott’s original, you had Ian Holm’s Ash; then Lance Henriksen’s Bishop in Aliens; Michael Fassbender’s meddling in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. So, since Elle Fanning’s character in Predator: Badlands, Thia, is confirmed to be a Weyland-Yutani synth, in a thrilling bit of crossover world-building, she had plenty to draw from. But there was one synth performance that really stood out, a particularly recent one: David Jonsson’s Andy, as seen in Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus last summer. “We went to see Alien: Romulus while we were shooting,” Fanning tells Empire. “[Jonsson] is such a great actor.” Across the film, Jonsson…

Casinos are, by their very nature, overstimulating environments. Flashing lights, slot machine sound effects, the buzz of the big winners, the palpable despair of those down on their luck. And so, with his high-rolling thriller Ballad Of A Small Player, Conclave director Edward Berger is piling on the razzle-dazzle – plunging Colin Farrell’s Lord Doyle into escalating heights of danger as his debts pile high. As he tells Empire, Farrell was drawn to the material’s thematic resonances, one that he could relate to in a very particular context. “The story is about the power of reinvention,” he explains. “In a cheesy way, I could…