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Run Fat Boys Run
You might find this hard to believe, but we're not the most active lot here at Empire towers. In between guzzling cupcakes and sitting on our arses watching movies, we don't find time to fit in many bouts of cardio-friendly exercise – unless walking to the vending machine at the other end of the floor counts. So it should be taken as something of a comedic enterprise that a whole bunch of us have committed to attempt a 10k charity run next weekend for Everyman - the UK's leading prostate and testicular cancer campaign. Now a lot of people do sponsored runs, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a group as ill-equipped to undertake it as we at Empire. Our training to date has consisted of a few reps with the airport-sized Toblerones Sam brought back from Cannes, and there's already a sweepstake as to what point along the route Chris Hewitt will actually keel over and die. So if you find the idea of tubby film critics gasping their last for charity amusing or just think it's a worthy cause, please sponsor Team Empire by clicking here. James Dyer
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Lost: The End
"Endings are hard. Any chapped-ass monkey with a keyboard can poop out a beginning, but endings are impossible. You try to tie up every loose end, but you never can. The fans are always gonna bitch. There's always gonna be holes. And since it's the ending, it's all supposed to add up to something. I'm telling you, they're a raging pain in the ass…" No, that's not Dickens or Shakespeare (or even the Earl of Oxford) writing about how it's difficult to end a story, but Chuck Shurley, the meta-comment prophet who writes up the adventures of the Winchester brothers on Supernatural.
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The 50 Greatest Video Game Characters
Whether hearty plumber, battleworn grunt or cutesey farmyard animal, the colourful stars of video games have become emblems of their respective eras. Mario, Sonic and their ilk are the De Niros and Bogarts of the gaming world, closer to the hearts of die-hard console-addicts than any Hollywood icon could be. With this in mind, and after much soul-searching, arguing and quiet contemplation, we have painstakingly assembled our list of the greatest gaming characters ever devised. Most will be old friends, some will be new acquaintances but each and every one is a standout - be they cultural icon, inspired innovation or a masterpiece of character design. The rogue's gallery of gaming legends starts here... | | |
|  | | Cannes 2010: The Video Diaries
Cannes has now finished, so take this quiet time to catch up on all the excitement of the Festival, with kangaroo Chris Hewitt, Cannes guru Damon Wise, camera guru Sam Toy and the magic floating head of the utterly ace Mark Strong. Marvel as Chris falls in love - with an inanimate object! Wince at the pilot for hot new sitcom 'Oh, Damo!' And watch all the highlights of the Festival... |
|  | | How to Build The Perfect Action Team
Given that The Losers explodes on our screens this week and the A-Team are waiting in the wings, we thought it the perfect time to look at the big archetypes of action movies. If you've got a dictator you need taking out, a bogus general plotting against his own country or just a World War to fight, here's who you need... |
|  | | Awards Extra: The Photo Booth
Tucked away in the corner of our cocktail reception was a fancy-looking photo booth. We invited our celebrity guests inside for a set of instant pics. There are, it transpires, those who know how to pose and those you dont... |
|  | | Watch Streetdance 3D!!!
Get your freak on, crank up your Krunk and generally get down with your bad selves because Streetdance 3D is in cinemas now and taking the UK box office by storm (actually true, it even hammered Prince of Persia). Phat beats, bangin' choonz, body-popping and all-round rhythmic, gyratory action – what's not to love? So go out and watch it now, because I promised I'd make you. Go on, go! It's better than Casablanca*!
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|  | | Design Your Own Dungeon!
Are you a king of Quark? A pharaoh of Photoshop? If so, this is your chance to have your talent showcased in Empire, by designing a B-movie poster featuring Kim Newman for the horror guru's regular Video Dungeon page. We've provided the assets – photos of Kim brandishing different weapons and an astonishing array of expressions – so all you have to do is create your own background and effects. Go funny, go scary, go crazy... the finest work will be showcased in the magazine in the coming months. |
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From Cannes to Comic-Con, the Empire Video Diairies are back - and this time in an all-new weekly format. Shot in HD on the new Sony Ericsson Vivaz™, the Empire videblogisodes will take you behind the scenes and give you a glimpse on what goes on here at the world's biggest movie magazine. Catch the first videblogisodes right here and enter the competition for your chance to win! | | | |
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A silver iguana (gecko?) to coincide with the release of Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant. Its eyes follow you wherever you go. | | | |
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The Losers 
Lithe, bold, often funny and full of characters to cheer for, it never pretends to be anything more than a trigger-happy romp. If that's what you're after, The Losers offers plenty of explosive entertainment. | | | |
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Road To Perdition (Blu-ray) 
This is supremely crafted, grown-up moviemaking that never escapes its pulp origins. The themes are well worn and the structure predictable, but these are gangster cliches as gift-wrapped by Fortnum & Mason, and the grandeur of the film slips down like fine caviar. | | | |
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