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This Week...
Three day weeks are awesome. Every week should be a three-day week. After all, despite the shorter time frame we've still managed to bring you an exclusive look at our Three Amigos reunion, interviews with the men who made the mighty Thor (is it just us or does it look like Chris Hemsworth's arms might burst out of his jacket seams at any moment?), both a movie weddings guide and a movie weddings quiz (can't think why weddings are in the air right now), a look at Movie Cars, a chat with Ray Winstone and a Harry Potter trailer breakdown. We even managed to fit in an office afternoon tea, because we're just that good. Helen O'Hara
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Mamma de Semlyen admires Bridge On The River Kwai in high-definition | | |  | | |
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Why The US Office Is Undeniably Better Than The Original
Walking out of the Cedar Rapids the other day, dancing embarrassingly through Soho – all movies should finish to the tune of Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder, right? Okay, some movies – my friend and I started the perennial debate on which is better: Ricky and Stephen's original UK Office, complete with Tim, Gareth and Dawn, or the American version, with the all-star crew of Jim, Pam, Dwight and Michael? | | | |
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Kenneth Branagh And Chris Hemsworth On Thor
Kenneth Branagh, aka that Shakespeare bloke, and Chris Hemsworth, until now best known as Captain Kirk's da, may not have been the likeliest of pairings when the world was fantasy-casting Thor. But as it turns out, the director and actor were spot-on choices to bring Marvel's oddest superhero to the screen. After all, an alien / deity who talks in rhyming couplets was never going to be as easy as sell as, say, Spider-Man. We talked to the pair recently about the challenge of finding the right tone for Thor, adding complexity to the world and riding a rainbow bridge through outer space... | | |
|  | | Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2: Trailer Breakdown
There was much excitement when the latest Harry Potter trailer debuted last night. For one thing, it's given us our clearest look yet at the film's climactic Battle for Hogwarts. For another, it's blooming exciting in its own right. Here are just a few of the high points that we spotted for discussion – please be aware that spoilers, inevitably, follow. If you haven't read the book or don't want to know what's coming, read no further. |
|  | | Ten Movie Lessons For Will And Kate
As you may have heard, there's a slightly well known wedding coming up this week. Anyway, we thought we'd offer up some top tips to ensure the big day goes by without a hitch (except the expected one) by taking the example of ten cine-nuptials that didn't run quite as smoothly... |
|  | | The Ultimate Movie Wedding Picture Quiz
We heard a rumour that someone's getting married this week. Someone important. Someone... Kingly. Princely. Balding. Prince William, that's it! And his lady love, Kate Middleton! Lovely stuff, good for them, they seem like nice people. So to celebrate these nice people being so nice as to give us a free Bank Holiday, here's a movie picture quiz for them to play when they get bored of the cucumber sandwiches and Pimm's and dancing and whatnot. |
|  | | 10 Movie Cars That Rev Our Engines
Watching The Rock bring it on the big screen in Fast And The Furious 5: Rio Heist (or F5st 5ive, or 5ive 4 Fighting, or F&F&5, whatever it's officially called now) the Empire team laughed, cried, hollered and screamed at the screen. In other words, we had a good time. But despite enjoying each and every punch/crash/ludicrous one-liner, we felt perhaps there weren't quite as many actual cars in the movie as we would have liked. Reminiscing over our favourites from days gone by, here are 10 of our favourite vehicles from throughout movie history – and we've tried to avoid superhero cars where we can, but if you just love your Batmobiles, you can check their kind here... |
|  | | Fiona Shaw On Malick's The Tree Of Life
Terrence Malick is cinema's elusive artist. His motion pictures - because no other term seem quite captures their photographic grace - may be slim in number but they're enormous in scope and ambition. From the sweeping Midwestern plains of Badlands and Days Of Heaven to the epic, no-man-is-an-island philosophising of The Thin Red Line and The New World, they're bold, beautiful and quite brilliant. His latest, The Tree Of Life, finally arrives next month with much fanfare but little concrete detail. Frankly we wouldn't have it any other way, but the chance to chat about the film with one of its stars, Fiona Shaw, was far too good to turn down. As she explained, "It was the most astonishing experience..." |
|  | | Ray Winstone Talks Tracker
Two years ago, Ray 'The Daddy' Winstone won himself a Empire Award for his outstanding contribution to British cinema, starring as he has in the likes of Sexy Beast, Scum, Quadrophenia, Nil By Mouth... the list goes on and on. His latest, however, is in no way based in Blighty - in fact, it's entirely set in New Zealand. Called Tracker, it's a Western of sorts that sees our man Ray playing a South African farmer, forced out of his country by the Boer War, arriving in New Zealand and being asked to track down a Maori man who's supposedly killed an army officer. And so begins a beautifully shot tale of redemption, history and men sniffing the ground for clues. In our video interview with Ray, we talk tricky Saffa accents, the beauty of the setting, and much, much more... |
|  | | Empire iPad Designers Needed!
Empire - the world's biggest film magazine - is looking for two designers to join its iPad edition design team and help forge the future of magazine publishing. The successful candidates will be talented, ambitious and highly organised, with a solid understanding of magazine layout and production. The responsibility of translating Empire's award-winning editorial into an entirely new medium is a large one, so the right people must be diligent and enthusiastic. They should also have ideas on how to take Empire's iPad app into new territories. Full details. |
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Lots of Thor goodies, because everyone feels like going a bit Norse god every once in a while. | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to me. | | | |
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Thor 
Turn off the snark-o-meter, and this is a return to form for Marvel, introducing a new hero we'll be happy to see again in, oh, about a year or so. | | | |
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This Week's Video Trailers And Clips
Every week, our video player will update to show trailers and clips from the week's movie releases listed above. | | |
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The Thin Red Line 
A wonderful, memorable return to cinema for Malick after a 20 year absence. | | | |
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