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|  This Week... This weekend sees the big event you've all been waiting for - yes, this Sunday is the finale of the Glasgow Film Festival! But it's also the Academy Awards , with the great and the good of the film world gathering in LA to slap one another on the back, or possibly make faces behind one another's back, depending on whether they've won something or not. As ever, we'll be covering every moment of the ceremony with our patented Sleep-Deprived Blogatron 3000, but to get yourself thoroughly prepared for the biggest night on the film calendar (until the Jameson Empire Awards at least) click over to our Oscars microsite to assess the nominees' form so far and see if you can predict the winners. Helen O'Hara
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Ben & Jerry's came in to ask for our opinion on their two new flavours of ice cream. Naturally we dropped everything and gave the question all our attention - and hugged the nearest bipedal cow. | | | |
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|  | | The Empire Podcast #49
Two Bond girls made their way to the Empire Podcast this week: two whole, real-life Bond girls. It might seem like we planned this, but that's just not true - it turns out Terrence Malick's To The Wonder, which happens to star Quantum Of Solace's Olga Kurylenko, is out in cinemas this week, and Skyfall is coming out on DVD and Blu-ray, so that's why Naomie Harris was in town. |
|  | | Olga Kurylenko On To The Wonder
Since we left her wandering the Bolivian desert in her bare feet in Quantum Of Solace, Olga Kurylenko has established herself as a gifted, versatile, and, yes, quite astonishingly beautiful screen actress. With her childhood grounding in classic movies and ballet training as a kid, a role in Terrence Malick's latest slice of film poetry was like manna from heaven for her, as she explained when Empire met her. She chatted about her favourite Malick movie, on-set homework and her musical leanings. |
|  | | 15 Gloriously Awful '80s End Credit Songs
There are classic '80s end credits songs, and then there are most of them. Some people like to sit in the theatre until the final studio logo, but the following - with the honourable exception of the Ramones - seem almost as if they were designed to clear a cinema as fast as possible (which seems particularly unkind to the staff who had to endure them as they cleared up the spilled popcorn). Songs of peace and love for violent action movies; dayglo anthems for forgotten musical farragos; attempted hit singles by cast members who should know better; terrible rhymes; and many strange things happening to people's hearts: all are in store for those of you who can get beyond page one. Warning: severe danger of unwanted earworms. |
|  | | Empire's Retro Video Game Music Quiz
Cinematic ear worms are one thing - gaming ear worms are a whole new 16-bit kettle of fish. Clogging up your childhood's short term memory day after day after day, computer game theme tunes were once the soundtrack to your existence - but now, so many years later in a post Wreck-It Ralph world, can you name that absurdly catchy video game theme tune? |
|  | | David Morrissey Talks Walking Dead Season 3
In the latest Empire Podcast there are 10 or so minutes of David Morrissey talking to our very own Nick De Semlyen and Chris Hewitt - but here below is the extended version, transcribed and uploaded just for you. Read on to find out about Morrissey's new favourite bands, whether he ever watches his beloved Liverpool when he's shooting in Atlanta and just how it feels to star in a film alongside Stan Collymore... |
|  | | Star Wars Characters Who DON'T Deserve Their Own Spin-Off
You may remember our Star Wars Characters Who Deserve Their Own Spin-Off feature from a couple of weeks ago. Well, it's all very well being excited and positive about new Star Wars films, but history teaches us that we should also treat such ventures with some sense of trepidation. A spin-off film about a single character could easily lead to fear, anger, hate and suffering if not handled well, and the first mistake would be to make a movie based around any of the following... |
|  | | The Ultimate TV And Film Neologisms Picture Quiz
Okay, hands up - our use of the word "neologisms" is pretty sketchy, to say the least. If the following words are anything, they're perfectly cromulent - words that were either coined by films or TV shows, or obscure/foreign words made famous by films or TV shows, or neologisms created by the authors of the books that inspired said films or TV shows. So the aim of the game is this: take a look at the words below and if you remember where they're from, write the name of the show or movie in the box beneath and find out if you're scrumtrulescent or just a little bit naff. |
|  | | Vote: The Done In 60 Seconds UK Top 20
Thanks to an incredible selection of 60-second Spielbergs and one-minute Malicks from all over the UK, this year's Done In Sixty Seconds offered a calibre of entries so high that Empire's panel struggled to narrow down them down to just 20. But coffees were drunk, cigars chomped and tough - very tough - decisions were made. Here are the top 20 entries for you to watch and enjoy. | | | |
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We're growing our own yellow-brick road thanks to Oz: The Great & Powerful. | | | |
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Our Ali tried the world's hottest popcorn, but it's OK: smoke has stopped coming out of his ears now. | | | |
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Cloud Atlas 
Don't let its commercial nosedive in the US tell the whole story. Cloud Atlas is a tough sell, but a rewarding journey all the same. It's an adventure into the very concept of storytelling: magical, enthralling and thrilling as much as bewildering, pompous and potty. In other words, up in the clouds. | | | |
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Skyfall
Skyfall is pretty much all you could want from a 21st Century Bond: cool but not camp, respectful of tradition but up to the moment, serious in its thrills and relatively complex in its characters but with the sense of fun that hasn't always been evident lately. One thing's certain: James Bond will return... | | | |
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