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This Week...
It's Halloween, for many it's half term, and as if that weren't enough there's a new Empire magazine on newsstands! Truly this is a glorious week. Led by Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and including a Lord Of The Rings 10 year birthday special, this issue's chocka with goodies off all sorts, running the gamut of movie entertainment from Marilyn Monroe to Terrence Davies via Terry Gilliam. Online, our fiendish Movie Lyrics Quote Quiz has caused 14 nervous breakdowns, 27 divorces, 3 pregnancies and a minor civil war - try it if you dare. We also have all the latest on this week's releases, plus interviews on The Help, Tintin and the Lord Of The Rings' hobbits. Frankly if it's not here, it's not worth knowing. Helen O'Hara
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A poster for Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender's Shame. It's reflective, see, so that it shows you. There's a message there, or a metaphor, or something clever. | | | |
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What's The Worst First-Date Movie?
Myself and a few of my colleagues went to see Shame last night, the new Steve McQueen film starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. Now it's an excellent film and highly recommended, with one caveat: on NO account go see it with a date who you do not know well. It may, with its depiction of meaningless sex and desperate loneliness, be the worst first-date film we've ever seen - certainly the worst which is also a very good film. | | | |
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The Great Movie Song Lyric Quote Quiz
It's been aaaages since we did a Quote Quiz around these parts but we thought we'd return to the fold with a new one - based entirely on song lyrics from the movies. All the below come from songs sung by the characters, on screen, or from the official movie theme tune - so NO incidental tunes or soundtrack filler. In the rare instances where a song has been used in subsequent homages and spoofs, the right answer is its original appearance. But can you identify them? Many, as you'd expect, come from musicals, but by no means all - and remember, we're looking for the film name, not the song name! So gird your loins, shake your jazz hands and dive in to the Great Movie Song Lyric Quote Quiz... | | |
|  | | Moffat, Wright And Cornish Talk Tintin
We got the chance to speak to pretty much everyone bar Serkis, Spielberg and Jackson when they came to London recently, so here are our video interviews with the Tintin gang, discussing the important topics of bath bubble quiffs, annoying catchphrases and who should play Professor Calculus... |
|  | | Tintin 2: Five Things To Expect
The plan is to make a trilogy of Hergé adaptations, with a script for a second film - working title 'The Adventures Of Tintin: Prisoners Of The Sun' - already on its way and Peter Jackson firming up his plans to direct. At least, as soon as he's finished in Middle Earth shooting The Hobbit. Of course all this is conditional on minor details like box-office takings and the like, but we've cast an eye over the story to investigate what Spielberg and Jackson might have in store... |
|  | | A Brief History Of Split-Face Movie Posters
Gorgeous George Clooney's latest directorial effort, The Ides Of March, is out in cinemas this week, and seeing as you enjoyed A Brief History Of Open Legs Movie Posters we thought we'd bring you the Split Face version - what with The Ides Of March's one-sheet boasting Clooney and Ryan Gosling combined in one doubly handsome and charming mugshot. So for split personalities, multiple roles and one half of Nic Cage's head on fire, click on... |
|  | | The Ides Of March: Evan Rachel Wood & Beau Willimon
Imagine George Clooney calling you to say that he wants to turn your play into a film. That's exactly what happened to Beau Willimon with his play Farragut North, renamed The Ides Of March for the big screen. After years of working on a series of political campaigns Willimon wrote The Ides of March based on his experiences. It's a thriller that sees idealistic campaigner Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling) get a crash course in dirty politics. It's got sex, betrayal, death, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti - a winning recipe by any definition. We sat down with Willimon and Evan Rachel Wood, who plays volunteer campaigner Molly, when they were in town last week to find out more... |
|  | | Pint Of Milk: Samuel L. Jackson
We bring you another vintage pint from the back of the Empire fridge to honour the highest-grossing film actor of all time, Samuel L. Jackson, whose appearances in Tarantino's back catalogue, Jurassic Park and the Star Wars prequels -- as well as his tiny roles in the Marvel universe as Nick Fury -- has seen his films haul in $7.57 billion at the box office. That's a certified Guinness World Record, by the way. So we thought we'd take another look at his Pint Of Milk interview from back in December 2008, where Nick de Semlyen discovered that he's more of a soya man... |
|  | | The Ultimate Kisses Picture Quiz
You'd be hard pressed to find a movie that doesn't boast at least one kiss at some point, so putting together 30 or so iconic examples of actors lip-locking was a bit of a tough call. Still, we manned up and did it, producing this picture quiz for you here, which features such smoochers as, well... we best not tell you really. Anyway, what are you waiting for? Get quizzing! |
|  | | Empire Meets Nathan Drake
You may not know his face, but you definitely know his voice. Over the past two decades, Nolan North has lent vocals to dozens of video games (from God Of War to Assassin's Creed) and plenty of big movies too. But his highest-profile gig yet has been the wildly popular Uncharted video-game series, in which he not voices globetrotting hero Nathan Drake but provides his body language too, via cutting-edge performance-capture. With the ludicrously brilliant Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception on the verge of release, we met with North in London to talk recording-booth hazards, celebrity fans and his role in Star Trek 2... |
|  | | Emma Stone And Viola Davies Talk The Help
Adapted from Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name, The Help is set against the backdrop of segregated 1960's Mississippi. It follows three characters: stoic 54-year old Aibileen, witty Minny - both maids - and Skeeter, a wealthy, young white writer. An unlikely friendship develops between the three women when they embark on a secret writing project that breaks rules and puts them all at risk. We were lucky enough to speak to leading ladies Emma Stone, Viola Davies and Octavia Spencer, plus Director Taylor to hear more about their record-breaking adaptation... | | | |
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to me. | | | |
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Tintin goodies to celebrate the release of The Secret Of The Unicorn. We were hoping for billions of blue blistering barnacles, but these are probably more useful. | | | |
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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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