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Casinos have often been great fare for cinema. I mean, just look at Casino, in which Martin Scorsese (once again) went god-mode. Or, Ocean’s Eleven, still one of the coolest movies ever made. Even Zack Snyder found fun in Sin City when he dropped several zombies in Vegas for Army Of The Dead. Now, it’s the turn of filmmaker Edward Berger to capture the dazzling lights, dizzying highs, crushing losses, and hedonistic buzz of big-money games in Ballad Of A Small Player – another speedy return from the director in the wake of his Oscar-bothering Conclave and All Quiet On…

Legendary British actor Terence Stamp, Oscar nominated star of Billy Budd and beloved by legions for his role as General Zod in Richard Donner’s Superman, has died at the age of 87. In a statement shared with Reuters, Stamp’s family confirmed that he passed away on Sunday morning, and said the following: “He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come. We ask for privacy at this sad time.” Born in Stepney, London on 22 July 1938 to Ethel Esther and…

Going by the less-than-stellar box office figures, there’s a solid chance you may have decided to skip Thunderbolts* in cinemas. The middle film of this year’s Marvel triptych was its trickiest bet – a team-up of not-so-heroic figures largely introduced on the small screen, in a group without the most recognisable moniker. It’s no wonder Disney quickly let the cat out of the bag of the group actually being *The New Avengers. But, as you may have heard, the film is great – and if you’ve been waiting for it to hit Disney+, you’re in luck. The streamer has finally…

This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast will haunt your nightmares (but in a good way) as Chris Hewitt returns to the host chair just in time to tackle a Mount Rushmore question about the best Final Girls in horror movies with Beth Webb and Amon Warmann. Their final choices may shock you, but that’s nothing compared to the bit where Chris finds himself explaining Freddy Krueger to Amon, who has never seen a Nightmare On Elm Street movie. Terrifying stuff! Elsewhere in the show, our intrepid trio also discuss the week’s movie news (hello, Marty Supreme trailer!), and review…

If last year’s chilling Doctor Who episode ’73 Yards’ taught us anything, it’s this: don’t mess with fairy circles. It’s a lesson that Daphne (Rosy McEwen) and Darcy (Dev Patel), the married musicians at the centre of first-time feature filmmaker Bryn Chainey’s upcoming folk horror Rabbit Trap, probably wish they’d learnt before heading to rural Wales to work on their latest album. As we soon see in the first trailer for Chainey’s 70s set movie, tylwyth teg — or fairy folk, to the non-Welsh speaking among us — don’t take too kindly to having their peace disturbed, and finding the…

After nearly a month of release, James Gunn’s Superman has pulled in over $580 million (and counting) at the global box office. While that’s not a total runaway smash, it has proved a solid hit and a strong start to the new DCU – and it seems the next chapter in the ongoing Superman story is ticking away in Gunn’s brain. We have, of course, already got Supergirl due to arrive in June 2026, having finished filming earlier this summer, while Batman villain horror flick Clayface is going into production next from the DC stable – but, as Gunn said…

If you’re a Safdie Brothers fan, the final stretch of 2025 is what you’ve been waiting for. It’s been six years since the siblings unleashed Uncut Gems, to palm-sweating effect. For their next projects, they’ve pursued separate movies; Benny Safdie wrangling The Rock in The Smashing Machine, and Josh Safdie teaming up with TImothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme. While Benny has been relatively active in the intervening years (acting in the likes of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, as well as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and most recently Happy Gilmore 2), Josh has been a more absent presence. But the…

Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool has come a long way since being introduced with his mouth sewn shut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine some 16 years ago. He’s buddied up with Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus in Deadpool, joined (and violently lost) the X-Force in Deadpool 2, and formed a mutie supergroup with Wolverine, Gambit, and the Foxverse gang in MCU debut Deadpool & Wolverine just last year. But could the Merc With A Mouth, Marvel Jesus himself, be about to link up with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Avengers: Doomsday? Reynolds’ latest Instagram post certainly isn’t shooting down the possibility. Check it out…

Eyes up, True Believers — fresh Spidey news swinging through! After what has been a pretty hyped past week or so for Spider-Man fans — one in which we’ve gotten our first look at Tom Holland’s fresh Brand New Day Spidey suit, learned that Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk is set for the MCU movie, and had confirmation of a new Spider-Punk film coming from Spider-Verse maestros Sony Pictures Animation — this Sunday has brought with it a new ‘Day One on Set’ behind the scenes teaser fresh from Destin Daniel Cretton’s Glasgow shoot. And with it potentially comes a vital clue…

As the old adage goes, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and horror movie sequels. And following the critical and commercial success of Final Destination: Bloodlines earlier this year, the first film in the iconic horror franchise since 2011’s Final Destination 5, producers New Line are certainly looking to do their bit to keep the death and sequels coming at least. Per THR’s reporting, a seventh Final Destination movie is officially in the works at Warner Bros. as the studio looks to keep the cogs turning on cinema’s ultimate Rube Goldberg machine of death. As THR detail, the…