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This Week...
The awards race heated up this week with the announcement of the BAFTA nominees on Tuesday and the release of Black Swan today. But whether you're a ballerina getting sucked into a psychological maelstrom or just a movie fan enjoying the one season of the year where you can rely on seeing at least one great film a week, we've got something for you on Empire. You can vote on your favourite films of that most Marmite of directors, Darren Aronofsky; you can take our dance quiz; you could learn about new Batman villain Bane or hang out with Harrison Ford and talk Morning Glory. And it's your final week to enter our Done In Sixty Seconds competition, so if you don't have your video camera out and your friends running around making fools of themselves so that you can hobnob with the stars at the Jameson Empire Awards in March, why not? Helen O'Hara
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Natalie Portman wants revenge in Your Highness | | |  | | |
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Dexter: Better To Burn Out Or Fade Away?
Having just finished Dexter's lukewarm fifth series, I got to pondering the show's future. You know, after sitting there for a few minutes wondering if that was it. No shock? No bombshell? No tantalising, potentially game-changing cliffhanger to bait our breath? Nope, negative and zilch. | | | |
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Harrison Ford, Patrick Wilson And Roger Michell On Morning Glory
There's a fine old tradition of Hollywood films about reporting the news: His Girl Friday, Network, Broadcast News. The latest contender to join the fray is Morning Glory, which stars Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Patrick Wilson as the combative personalities involved in getting a morning news show to the air (well, Wilson works on a different programme, but let's not quibble). We spoke to the legendary Mr Ford, the charming Mr Wilson and delightful director Roger Michell to get the full story behind the behind-the-show antics... | | |
|  | | Darren Aronofsky: The Marmite Director
Like our favourite gloopy black toast topping, Dr Pepper or the French, Darren Aronofsky's movies seem destined to divide people. If you love them, you really love them; if you're not a fan, chances are you'll be dragged to the cinema kicking, screaming and wielding tiny razors in a threatening manner. Black Swan, a psycho-drama spliced with the influence of Cronenberg, continues the trend. We've delved into one of the most polarising back catalogue in the business to run the rule over a CV touched with single-minded genius. But are Aronofsky's films brilliant or just plain batty? You decide. |
|  | | Darren Aronofsky Talks Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky made his debut with Pi, which suggested a director who would follow the likes of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, obsessed with science and technology. Instead, however, he found another way; through films as diverse as Requiem For A Dream (2000) and The Wrestler (2008), Aronofsky has revealed himself as a surprisingly human director, whose films sympathise with failure and identify with fragility. His latest, Black Swan, takes the story of a young, neurotic ballerina, Nina (Natalie Portman), and creates a fascinating, sometimes frightening vision of her descent into madness. We spoke to him to get the full story. |
|  | | The Ultimate Dance Picture Quiz
Though Darren Aronofsky's The Black Swan is not by any means "a dance movie" -- seriously, Step Up 2 The Streets fans, you have been warned -- it does contain really quite a lot of dancing. Loads of the stuff, in fact. And as we found our minds thoroughly messed with over the course of the psycho-drama-ballet-extravaganza, it made Empire collectively harken back to other, less scary dancey moments in movies... And lo, a new picture quiz was made, and, alas, it's a bit of toughie. Sorry about that. |
|  | | Golden Globe Winners 2011
They don't exactly carry the cache of the Oscars, but the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards were handed out last night in America, and there were good results for several films, including The Social Network (which took the drama screenplay, score, director and film awards) and The King's Speech (a somewhat unsurprising drama actor win for Colin Firth). |
|  | | The BAFTA Nominations Are Here
It's that time of year again, so this year's nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards have duly been announced in London this morning. As expected, The King's Speech leads the way with a whopping 14 nominations, followed by Black Swan with 12. Inception takes nine nods and 127 Hours and True Grit (so cruelly overlooked by the Globes) each got 8. |
|  | | Peter Mullan And Conor McCarron Talk NEDS
Conviction is the true story of siblings Betty Anne and Kenny Waters. After surviving an abusive father, a drunken mother and various foster families, Kenny (Rockwell) is wrongly convicted of murder. Single mum Betty Anne (Hilary Swank) puts herself through law-school in an effort to appeal and overturn the sentence. We grabbed the chance to talk to the always-reliable Sam Rockwell about the film, which is out this Friday, and meeting the real-life Betty Anne Waters... |
|  | | John Carpenter On The Ward
John Carpenter is back. The New Yorker, one of Hollywood's most original and visceral voices, is back where he belongs: scaring the bejeezus out of us with another shocky, schlocky cinema experience. Even his legion of devoted fans struggled for nice things to say about gory sci-fi Ghosts Of Mars back in 2001, but few will be disappointed by a new psych-horror that plays like Shutter Island with the scares cranked up a notch or twelve. The Ward – or 'John Carpenter's The Ward', to give it its proper title – is a return to moviemaking after a self-imposed exile of almost a decade. | | | |
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A True Grit poster, modelled here by Ali. Probably my favourite film of 2011, even if it is only January. | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to me. | | | |
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Black Swan 
An extraordinary, intoxicating movie. Its hard, twisted edges may turn off some, but there's no faulting either Aronofsky's technical mastery or Portman's flawless performance. | | | |
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The Hole
Welcome back, Joe Dante, and welcome back '80s family frights. It might be too lightweight for hardcore horror types, but this is a great way to get in touch with your inner eight-year-old. | | | |
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