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This Week...
After the recent excitement of the Empire Awards and everything, a trip to New York for a top-secret film junket last weekend almost felt like business as usual. Almost. But as I jogged around Central Park, trying to figure out exactly which rock formation had been in Elf and which in Enchanted, I got to thinking: why did all my friends focus on the Sex and the City aspects of the trip? Then I went shopping for shoes, bought an ice cream at Serendipity and forgot about it. Anyway, back here in London we've been slaving away to bring you interviews, quizzes, webchats and more. Whether you want to know how well Rio director Carlos Saldanha knows his birds, or what sort of sandwich Duncan Jones prefers, or just want to test your knowledge of planes in movies, this is the website you're looking for. Helen O'Hara
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Duncan Jones' Secrets Of Source Code
As an action movie, Source Code delivers plenty of breathless, race-against-time thrills. But there's plenty more to Jones's film than fistfights and fireballs – indeed, as Kim Newman noted in his glowing four-star Empire review, "This is the sort of clever-clever picture which requires multiple viewings to put all the pieces together." But where do you need to be looking? To shed some light on just a few of the secrets, in-jokes and twists hidden within, we asked Jones himself for some clues that would help our readers crack the code. And, somewhat fittingly, he came up with eight... | | | |
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26 Great (And Not So Great) Music Video Cameos
It's fair to say that the pop world has had better luck in Tinseltown than Hollywood's finest have had bashing out chart-topping ditties. Need proof? Just hit play on Steven Seagal's ear-burning Songs From The Crystal Cave, try to lay your hands on Bruce Willis' The Return Of Bruno or listen to just anything by Russell Crowe's 30 Odd Foot Of Grunt. Of course, there are minor exceptions – Scarlett and Zooey, take a bow – but as a rule, actors' musical ambitions are served best with sparkling cameos in music videos. There they can wow us without being allowed anywhere near an instrument. Of course, there are too many examples to list them all, but here are a few we love – and a few almost too terrible to mention. | | |
|  | | A Brief History Of Martians In The Movies
Mars Needs Moms has arrived in the cinemas, the latest in a long and varied line of Mars-centric movies. Looking back through Hollywood's Red Planet back catalogue, it's interesting to note that over the years, Earth's been invaded, Mars has been invaded, minds have been invaded, and pretty much every single iconic building across the globe has been blown up numerous times. So in tribute to these angry extra-terrestrials, we've decided to take a look at the mysterious fauna of our nearest planetary neighbour, and examine just what Martians really look like... |
|  | | Carlos Saldanha Takes Empire's Bird Quiz
Co-founder of Blue Sky Studios and a driving force behind the mega-successful Ice Age franchise, Carlos Saldanha is back with a new animation. It's set in his home town Rio de Janeiro and follows the story of a domesticated macaw (Jesse Eisenberg) and his potential mate (Anne Hathaway). After all that animating the last thing he needed was to undergo our fiendish bird quiz, even less so with a couple of curveballs thrown in. We made him do it anyway, though, and being a sport he gave it his best shot. |
|  | | Mars Needs Moms Interviews
Like sci-fi? Like animation? If so, you'll like Mars Needs Moms, the new performance-captured animation from Disney, wherein Martians kidnap Earth mothers for their own nefarious ends. We spoke to director and screenwriter Simon Wells and screenwriter Wendy Wells, as well as stars Joan Cusack, Mindy Sterling (Austin Powers' Frau Farbissina, people!), Dan Fogler and Elisabeth Harnois to get the lowdown on the film... |
|  | | Exclusive Q&A: Garry Shandling
It's not every day that multi-Emmy and Globe winner Garry Shandling grants access to his inner circle of comedy trust - his press appearances are few and far between - but he made a rare exception for Empire. The one-time Larry Sanders looked back on his talk show alter ego and shared a few of his sharpest memories. Regrets, he's had a few. But then again... |
|  | | The Ultimate Plane Movie Picture Quiz
Since the dawn of time, man has wanted to fly. Of course, this was mainly so that he could show off to girls, but once that bit was taken care of he realised that this aviation lark could also come in handy for transportation purposes and for blowing shit up in style during wartime. Needless to say, Hollywood has merrily embraced this airborne tradition, and in honour of these aviation-related feature presentations, we've gathered together some tiny stills of our favourites for you to guess the film. So good luck, and, um, chocks away! |
|  | | Andy Garcia On Coppola, Corleone And City Island
Andrés Arturo Garcia Menéndez, better known as Andy Garcia, has lived the American dream. He scored his first big gig in one of the greats of the crime genre: The Untouchables (1987). Two years down the line and he was screen-testing to play the last Godfather in Francis Ford Coppola's trilogy. Since then he's moved into direction and production himself, producing and starring as wannabe gangster Vince Rizzo in City Island. Empire spoke to him about his career to date and his work with Coppola. As he tell us: "There are many Gods in the directing world, and then there's Zeus..." |
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Mystery
The new thriller in the Alex Delaware series from Jonathan Kellerman, the ultimate crime writer.
Alex Delaware is The Crime Reader, the expert the LAPD turns to when a case is impossible to crack. No one can read a crime scene, interpret signs, or decode a suspect's behaviour better than Alex can. A criminal psychologist, Alex works with the police to read the clues and solve the most complex of crimes in Los Angeles, city of illusions, glamour and infamy. | | | |
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A lovely Blu-ray copy of Monsters, for high-def monster-movie love-story road-movie thrills. | | | |
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Rio 
Okay, so it's not exactly a groundbreaking advance from the team behind Ice Age, but with its kaleidoscope of colour and heaps of humour, you'll be charmed. | | | |
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Every week, our video player will update to show trailers and clips from the week's movie releases listed above. | | |
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Monsters 
An amazing achievement for a 'first-time' filmmaker, which measures up to the finest indies for performance and character-work, and the biggest blockbusters for jaw-dropping effects. And it has the year's best sex scene, too. | | | |
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