Author: Empire

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 —…

Make no mistake: just because Penelope doesn’t go toe-to-toe with a Cyclops, Sirens and murderous Laestrygonians in The Odyssey, doesn’t mean she’s not facing dangers of her own. Played by Anne Hathaway in Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster adaptation, the wife of Odysseus is stationed back home in Ithaca, awaiting her husband’s return after the Trojan War. But since the ETA of Odysseus (Matt Damon) is, well, years away, she’s tasked with ensuring the throne isn’t usurped by all kinds of nefarious types – including Robert Pattinson’s scheming Antinous. For Hathaway, Penelope proved a fascinating character in her own right, holding…

For the best part of half a century now, Tom Cruise has been the movie star. The man lives, breathes, loves, and makes movies quite unlike anybody else. And now, having recently been presented with a long overdue honorary Oscar for his services to cinema, the medium’s pre-eminent champion has taken to his socials today to share a pulse-quickening retrospective montage of his 46 years on the big screen — and a tantalising new glimpse at his latest movie, Alejandro G Iñárritu’s upcoming ‘comedy of catastrophic proportions’ Digger. Check it out below; SHOW US THE MOVIESSS! Hoo boy, that was…

Who wants to see a new trailer for Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House? We said who wants to see a new trailer for Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House? ANSWER THE QUESTION, DAMN YOUR EYES! Oh yeah, you can’t actually respond to an article as it’s being written. Fine then, we’ll take it as given that of course you want to see our first proper look at Kitty, Thomas, Julian, Lady Fanny, Pat, Robin, Sir Humphrey Bone, and the Captain’s returns in the hit BBC sitcom’s first big-screen outing. Check it out below; A trio of kids sneaking through…

2019’s Pixar fourquel Toy Story 4 gave us a great many things. Ducky and Bunny. Forky. A Bo Peep with some long-overdue self determination. It also gave us Keanu Reeves’ Duke Caboom (“Canada’s Greatest Stuntman!”), shepherded to our screens quite brilliantly by director Josh Cooley. And clearly Keanu and Cooley enjoyed the experience of working together as Variety is reporting that they’re looking to reunite. Per the trade’s reporting, Reeves is circling the lead role in an all-new Lego movie, with Cooley — fresh from helming fan-favourite animated origin joint Transformers One — in the director’s hottest. Believed to be…

31 years since Pixar’s plastic heroes first came to life on the big screen, Toy Story’s still got a friend in m— well, all of us actually! Yes, seven years since we last caught up with Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the gang in 2019’s better than you remember it Toy Story 4, Andrew Stanton’s toys vs tech fivequel Toy Story 5 has rode like the wind into cinemas this week and proved that those toys and their stories have still got it where it counts at the global box office. Per Variety’s reporting, Toy Story 5 took a mammoth $312…