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This Week...
It's been a heck of a week here in the Empire office. Our world-exclusive Dark Knight covers (all three of 'em) have hit the street and received a pretty bloomin' positive reaction from, well, everyone, and even now readers are trying to get their heads around our Nick's astonishing interview with Gary Busey (read a few snippets here) As if that weren't enough, we've also profiled this year's likely Oscar nominees, visited Aardman Studios and reviewed the most memorable films and moments of 2011, from monsters to sex scenes to worst accents. Here on the website, we've been chatting to Jeremy Renner, Seth Rogen and Will Reiser, and Michael Shannon, as well as discussing the greatest Foot Chases in cinema and hearing the latest updates from Peter Lord about Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. It may be winter outside all of a sudden, but things are still warm and busy over this way. Helen O'Hara
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A WD TV Live sent over from our friends at Western Digital. If you ever dreamed of streaming media from your computer straight to your HDTV then this beautiful box of goodness is just the ticket. | | | |
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|  | | | Is there a less wanky way of saying verisimilitude?
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Peter Lord's Pirates! Diary Part 3
Captain's blog: They tell me we're approaching the end of the shoot. To be exact, they tell me, we have just three more weeks of shooting on the studio floor. Astounding. I find this rather hard to believe. Where has the last five years gone? | | | |
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Jameson Empire Awards 2012: Voting Now Open!
2012 is going to be a momentous year. Movie- wise, we've got the likes of The Hobbit, The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers and, erm, StreetDance 2. Outside the world of film, you've got the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine, for one thing. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in June. The London Olympics in August. And, of course, if we're to believe the Mayan legend and that pesky Roland Emmerich, the end of the world in December. It takes a hell of an event, though, to outstrip that little lot. An event like the Jameson Empire Awards 2012. It's the most irreverent awards night on the celluloid calendar - and we need you to help decide the winners. | | |
|  | | 33 Of Film's Best Best Friends
This week, 50/50 hits cinemas, a "cancer comedy" that sees Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character, Adam, get diagnosed with "the big C". His best mate, Kyle (Seth Rogen), is there to support him every step of the way, bringing film yet another super best friendship to add to the pantheon of cinema's best heterosexual life partners. To celebrate their inclusion, here's 33 other bezzies, from Woody and Buzz to R2D2 and C3PO. It even includes a friendship between a man and a woman - imagine that! |
|  | | Michael Shannon On Take Shelter
Michael Shannon is probably best known for a role he hasn't even finished playing yet - Zod in 2013's Man Of Steel. Before that hits screens in two years' time, he's still doing other gigs, including Take Shelter, which reunited him with Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols for an exploration into the end of the world and a man having a mental breakdown. So... not a lot like Superman, but still good. Check out our interview with the big man, and try to imagine him asking you to kneel... Sorry, demanding you to kneel. Important to know the difference there, we feel. |
|  | | Terence Davies Talks The Deep Blue Sea
Nursing a cuppa in an incongruously trendy London media club, Terence Davies is chuckling fondly about his recent evening in the BAFTA spotlight. "That was a great night!" grins the director of the raucous Marylebone after-party that followed the festival's Closing Night Gala. "In the end they had to ask us to leave." As an image of the director of Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes breakdancing on WKD-strewn tables flashes through Empire's mind, it turns out that Davies merely took his leave with the other punters when the venue closed. Still, with The Deep Blue Sea, his first feature film since 2000's The House Of Mirth, arriving in cinemas shortly, he's in high spirits, happy to be back behind the camera with a project that clearly has great personal resonance. So what attracted him to Terence Rattigan's play? What does the future hold for its tortured heroine? And what about those super-intelligent killer sharks? |
|  | | Will Reiser And Seth Rogen Talk 50/50
Will Reiser used to have cancer. Seth Rogen was working with him at Saturday Night Live when that tumour first reared its ugly head, and being best mates, Seth helped his friend get through it. Their latest movie, 50/50, takes Will's experiences and puts them on screen, producing a "cancer comedy" that stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Will character, a man with 1 in 2 chance of surviving "The Big C", and Rogen as his best mate (typecasting!). Touching, heartfelt and hilarious, it's well worth watching -- as is this interview, of course. Ahem. |
|  | | Introducing Resistance Director Amit Gupta
Alongside Duncan Jones, Andrea Arnold, Gareth Edwards, Ben Wheatley, and his old pal, Rowan Joffe, Amit Gupta is another name to add to a swelling list of talented, up-and-coming British directors. Having won plaudits for Campaign, a short play he wrote about the war in Afghanistan that caught the eye of the US government, Gupta has adapted Owen Sheers' wartime novel Resistance into an acclaimed character drama. "If anything, it's an anti-war film," Gupta explains. "The big theme for me was occupation". Empire went to meet him to discover his filmmaking inspirations and guilty pleasures. | | | |
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A Hasbro Ultimate FX Lightsaber. This will be going to a good home with an Empire team member small child. Yes. | | | |
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Moneyball 
You don't need to understand anything of baseball to get behind this, a chest-swelling story about second chances and flipping a finger up (even a giant foam one) to The Man. | | | |
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Horrible Bosses 
These bosses cannot justify either murder or lasting comic memories, fatally compromising a farce that could have been great but ends up merely mediocre. | | | |
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