 |  This week has been all about in-depth analysis, an almost obsessive love of facts and a penchant for spoilers (carefully signposted) for us. We've had two lengthy trailer breakdowns, for Guardians Of The Galaxy and Kingsman: The Secret Service, a Godzilla spoiler podcast and matching feature, and Hossein Amini talking us through the films that influenced his excellent The Two Faces Of January . And we have done all of this against a backdrop of feverish activity from the magazine staff, as they tallied your final votes in our 301 Greatest Movies poll and sent the magazine to press. That will hit newsagents everywhere next Thursday, or if you want to be sure of getting it you can pre-order it here. Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
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  Latest Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer Lands
If the first trailer for Marvel's interstellar comedy action film Guardians Of The Galaxy was a tease introducing us to the rag-tag assortment of thieves, thugs, assassins and lunatics that makes up the titular team, this new promo delivers action, spectacle and the same swagger we've come to expect from what is shaping up to be another giant leap for the comic book crew. More: New Trailer Online For Christopher Nolan's Interstellar This sci-fi sure involves a lot of cornfields... First Trailer For Woody Allen's Magic In The Moonlight Take a trip to France with Colin Firth and Emma Stone. Clouds Of Sils Maria Trailer Online Kristen Stewart & Juliette Binoche create drama A New Big Hero 6 Teaser Boots Up Visit Sanfransokyo to meet Disney's robotics prodigy. New Trailer For Roger Ebert Documentary Life Itself Exploring the life of the legendary critic. Two New Clips From Racing Documentary Road Rev your engines and step this way. First Clip From Sundance Breakout Whiplash JK Simmons is the music teacher from hell... Latest Trailer For James Brown Biopic Get On Up The Help director Tate Taylor brings us the Godfather Of Soul. First Trailer For Elmore Leonard Adaptation Life Of Crime Jennifer Aniston's in trouble... Trailer For The Search Found Online This time it's war for The Artist's director. Trailer For The Gracefield Incident Crash-Lands There's something out there... New Foxcatcher Teaser Online As the film draws raves in Cannes... First Clip From Ryan Gosling's Directorial Debut Lost River Matt Smith's showing off... New Trailer For Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here The Kickstarted indie sees Braff trying find his way in life. New Trailer And Poster For Buzzed-About Thriller Cold In July Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson face off.
  Some nifty original posters courtesy of podcast listener and tweeter Brian C. Roll at @OdysseyArtTorch.
 I think I've found the loophole that will allow me to become Emperor.  James was encouraged when not asked for ID while exercising his democratic right to vote.
Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer Breakdown
A lot of internet scuttlebutt about Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy up to now has focused on the "risky" nature of this space adventure - because, apparently, we have no trouble buying the existence of superheroes but aliens are a bit beyond the pale. Well, by the looks of this full trailer for the film, it's less of a risk and more of a romp, with Chris Pratt leading us on a joyous flit through the galaxy of James Gunn's comic space adventure. So what did we learn? Read on and find out... | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #112
This week, Empire Podcast veteran Hugh Jackman stops by to talk about London's second best fish and chip shop, Wolverine's love of Rick Astley and his top drawer pirate voice, with newcomer Ian McKellen instead using his interview to pitch for a job as a film reviewer. Both were in town to talk X-Men: Days Of Future Past, which the team also do, on top of some general cinematic chit chat and this week's news. Look forward to an unexpected discussion of Spice World and some top tips on how to smuggle a Snickers bar into a screening. |
|  | | Aaron Taylor-Johnson Talks Godzilla
Godzilla is a film that boasts a beast so huge that humans barely appear on the poster. And yet, Godzilla himself is a tempestuous fellow, and was unwilling to be interviewed for the film. A round of applause, then, for the admirable and amiable Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who stepped into the breach, as this video interview proves. |
|  | | Gordon Willis Remembered: A Look Through His Greatest Hits
Gordon Willis may have retired from filmmaking in 1997, but he remained a towering figure in the halls of cinematography and an influence on many who followed him. Of all of Gordon Willis' many talents - and they are considerable - perhaps one of his most unsung gifts was his great taste. Few filmmakers in any discipline have so consistently picked the kind of interesting, quality projects that Willis picked throughout the '70s and '80s. Working chiefly with Francis Coppola (two of The Godfather trilogy), Alan J. Pakula (four films) and Woody Allen (eight films) but also with the likes of Hal Ashby and Herbert Ross, he created a distinct daring visual style, marked by a minimum of light, pitch black backgrounds and the balls to let the actors eyes - the window of the soul - not always be illuminated. Here are some of his greatest images. |
|  | | Kingsman: The Secret Service Trailer Breakdown
Exclusive: Matthew Vaughn guides us through the first look at his new movie... It perhaps wasn't as eventful as Nicky Barmby leaving Goodison for Anfield, but when Matthew Vaughn left the director's chair on X-Men: Days Of Future Past to helm the adaptation of Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons' comic, The Secret Service, it caused a bit of a stir. Leaving one surefire blockbuster for a relatively unknown quantity - had the British director taken leave of his senses? |
|  | | Ten-Step Film School: Hossein Amini
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Hossein 'Hoss' Amini (Drive, The Wings Of The Dove) has graduated to directing duties with The Two Faces Of January, an impeccable, clammy adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's '60s-set thriller. It's a none more old-fashioned character piece - in the best sense - that follows gadflies and tricksters around the sunburnt edges of the Mediterranean and into a claustrophobic moral maze. As Amini reveals, its influences and inspirations include a selection of past masterpieces drawn on to help find the look, style and tone of his film. The director talked Empire through ten films to add to your download list. |
|  | | Win A Film Download, Takeaway Every Sunday With Fox Searchlight!
Throughout 2014, Empire will be giving readers the chance to win a Digital HD copy of a Fox Searchlight film, plus a £25 hungryhouse.co.uk voucher to order their favourite takeaway online. Just head to Twitter each Sunday (make sure you're following @empiremagazine ) and answer the quiz question posed, tagging your tweet with #SearchlightSundays. In addition, there will be a chance to win flights to Utah and hotel accommodation during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival! Click here for full details |
|  | | Director Gareth Edwards Reveals 7 Godzilla Secrets
If you'll pardon the weak wordplay, Godzilla crushed it at the box office, earning $100 million-plus in its opening weekend. Now, for the many people who saw the film, there are questions to be answered. Thank Godzilla that the director of the film, Gareth Edwards, stopped by Empire to spill some beans - beans you can hear (in a fashion) on this spoiler special Empire Podcast. But if you're not into the whole listening thing, you can also read the beans below. Be warned: this feature is crafted from 100 percent pure spoiler, so you'll definitely want to watch the film before reading further. |
|  | | 10 Awesome Mutant Monsters For Godzilla 2
Some topics are too grim even for cinema to tackle head on - and let's not forget that this is the medium that brought us The Smurfs 2 - and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki definitely fall into that category. Instead, movies tackled the horrors of the nuclear age the way any sensible person would: with MASSIVE MUTANT MONSTERS. From Japan, where the A-bomb gave birth to B-movies giddy with scaly creations that would eat you (and the town you grew up in) in a Toyko minute, to Hollywood, where if it was worth doing, it was worth doing with giant killer ants, carnage reigned for a decade. If you'd nuked the fridge during this period it probably would have sprouted legs and breathed flaming Primula. Here are ten of the hairiest, more radioactive critters that we'd like to bring back for Godzilla to tackle in the sequel to this year's film... |
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 Rather sweetly, we got a birthday card from a reader in Honolulu, Hawaii, to mark our 25th birthday. Thanks very much, Cindy!
 
Mountain Dew features in X-Men: Days Of Future Past. It also appears in Back To The Future. Appropriate! 
New York University's graduation ceremony is held at Yankee Stadium. 
Adam Driver's childhood heroes were Arnie and Michael Jordan. He's not yet met either. 
Jane Fonda loves The Lone Ranger. 
Axl Rose has an astonishing vocal range.
 |  | |  | |  | |  |  | | X-Mans: art inspired by an X-Men colouring book. | | Pantone, 17th century style. | | Nip syncing. It'll never catch on, thank god. | | A gorgeous dance production. |
If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  We got some Inside Llewyn Davis goodies to celebrate the HE release of the Coen Brothers film on May 26. Now all we need is a guitar, a cat and a scratchy-looking woolly jumper and we'll be ready to folk!
 
X-Men: Days Of Future Past 
The best X-Men film since the second one, this sequel/prequel/reboot trashes the '70s with èlan. Some of the massive cast struggle to register (there's only a brief Storm), but what's here is all good. We want X-Men: Apocalypse, now. Also Out
 
The Wolf Of Wall Street 
Scorsese's funniest and most focused film in a long time, a jet-black sex and drug-soaked comedy featuring a bravura performance by Leonardo DiCaprio. Also Out
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