 |  This was an exciting week for us as we travelled to Edinburgh for a host of film festival-related events. We screened your number one in the 301 Greatest Films Of All Time, hosted Q&As with filmmaking greats like Don Johnson, and put on our second Empire Podcast Live event at Edinburgh's Filmhouse. A big thanks to all of you who came along, especially our guests Brian Cox and Elijah Wood, and apologies to Scotland if any of us insulted your national drink, Irn Bru - especially Elijah Wood, who seemed delighted but bewildered by the whole concept. If you happen to be up in the Scottish capital, our last Q&A is with Big Bang Theory star-turned-filmmaker Simon Helberg and his co-director Jocelyn Towne on Sunday, as their film We'll Never Have Paris closes the Festival. Assuming you don't all vote for independence and fortify the border Doomsday-style, we'll hopefully see you again next year! Helen O'Hara
Deputy Online Editor, Empire
 
Guardians Of The Galaxy!
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Marvel's new space epic is our cover star this month, and we've got an in depth feature bringing you all the details on the galaxy's weirdest heroes (also known as "a bunch of A-holes"). If you want a talking raccoon, a bald Karen Gillan and "an outer-space Liberace", we've got your fix right here. Find out more abour what's inside the new issue. VIP print and digital packages Subscribe to Empire magazine: 12 issues for only £18! Buy single iPad editions on the App Store View all subscription offers
  First Trailer Online For David Ayer's Fury
Despite their importance in war in the 20th century, there have been fewer films about tanks than you might expect - because how do you make a small group of men in a tin seem exciting? Well, David Ayer may have figured it out with Fury, as you can see in the first trailer. The key, if this is representative, seems to be not claustrophobia but some seriously stacked odds. More: Exclusive International Trailer For The Drop Tom Hardy and the late James Gandolfini face a gangster threat. Into The Storm Whips Up A Second Trailer Planes sailing. Latest TV Spot For Guardians Of The Galaxy The best in the business. Teaser Trailer For The Guest Dan Stevens is an unwelcome stranger... New Hunger Games: Mockingjay Video Launches President Snow has a message for the Districts... Trailer For The Last Of Robin Hood Online Kevin Kline is in like Flynn. New Ninja Turtles Trailer And Character Posters There'll be shell to pay. Go Behind The Scenes Of Jurassic World Two new videos give us a glimpse of what's in store. Two New Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Clips Land If you go down to the woods today... New Trailer For The Purge: Anarchy See you on the hunting grounds... New Trailer For God's Pocket Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Turturro head to Philly. New Trailer For Hector And The Search For Happiness Everybody's looking for something.
  Ghostbusters Lego! Slime not included, which is probably a good thing because you just know that someone would try to eat it.
 I thought Pele was Spanish? No, wait, that's Pique, and he's Mexican.  James is a football expert (he meant Pique the Mexican World Cup mascot, not the Spanish player).
Does Star Wars Have A Brain Trust?
Pixar's had one for years, Marvel has a team of its own. As the Star Wars universe gears up for a multi-pronged attack on our screens and Warners stacks a roster of DC adaptations, it seems that a cinematic brain trust is the only way to keep these complex universes on track. We look at the new methods of movie-making, and how a collective approach to films is spreading fast... | |
|  | | The Empire Podcast #117
In honour of the Edinburgh International Film Festival up in, um, Edinburgh, the Empire Podcast team made the long and treacherous journey over Hadrian's Wall to record a very special live edition of the show, complete with two very special interviews: Elijah Wood and Brian Cox. |
|  | | 64 Stunning Slo-Mo Sequences In Movies - And What Makes Them Great
Ah, slow motion. If you have a dramatic death, a long walk down a corridor, or if your film's just running a bit short , slowing the motion of the action is a surefire way to success. With extra slow replays currently dominating TV screens courtesy of the World Cup, we decided to take a look back at the best (and slowest) that cinema has to offer. It turns out that everything looks cooler when you hold the camera speed down... |
|  | | Movie Restaurants Reviewed: Where To Eat On The Big Screen
As Chef's (bl)ogre Ramsey Michel and Ratatouille's Anton Ego remind us, restaurant critics usually side with the devil in movies. They turn up, turn their nose up and scurry away to pen toxic pieces denouncing the salad as 'undressed' and the service as 'sluggish' - or worse, the other way around. Here at Empire, however, we are made of tougher stuff. Only last week a cake shaped like a severed human arm was polished off, and if that doesn't qualify us to tackle the culinary delights of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, nothing will. Here, then, is our own Michelin-style guide to movie dining rooms. |
|  | | Rogues Gallery: Titus Welliver
The very best thing in so many of your favourite TV shows, films and optimistic spec scripts, Titus Welliver has many fans in the Empire office, earning his "27 percent-er" credit with ease. Speaking to him over the phone in honour of his new Amazon TV show, Bosch (where he plays much-loved Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch, first seen in Michael Connelly's 1992 novel The Black Echo), we also took the time to talk to him about his other bad guys and antiheroes, in a piece not entirely unlike our conversations with fellow supporting superstars Peter Stormare and Walton Goggins. Helpfully, he's a big Empire fan: "I love your magazine, by the way - I finally have the respect of my children. If I was in National Geographic, I would get much less kudos..." |
|  | | Empire At EIFF 2014: Don Johnson Q&A
Miami Vice legend, Golden Globe winner and Hollywood Walk of Fame star Don Johnson joined Empire's Chris Hewitt for a Hero Hangout at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival to talk us through some of his career highlights including knicker showers, Dennis Hopper's unique take on direction and his too-cool-for-school Texas noir Cold In July. It was a rollocking 90 minute chat. Here are the best bits. |
|  | | Classic Scene: The Incredible Shrinking Man
Exposure to radiation and insecticide has altered Robert Scot Carey's molecular structure, and he gradually shrinks to the size of an insect. After rage, loneliness and terror he finally feels peace... |
|  | | 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 |
|  | | Classic Feature: The Making Of GoodFellas
With his new movie, GoodFellas, Martin Scorsese returns to his very best form, with American critics already comparing the film to his classic Raging Bull. In this exclusive interview, Scorsese talks to Henri Behar about GoodFellas, faith, and growing up on the mean streets of Manhattan's Little Italy. |
|  | | How Much Is A Pint Of Milk: Neil Morrissey
He knows his way around Leslie Ash's underwear drawer. He knows how to open a can of lager. And this month on the big screen he knows his up from his under. Bur will he know how much to pay for a bit of udder? |
|  | | Blake Harrison Talks Keeping Rosy
Best known for playing nice-but-dim teenager Neil Sutherland in The Inbetweeners, on the small screen and the big, Blake Harrison is making a departure from type with Keeping Rosy. An economical thriller set in Canary Wharf, it sees the 29 year-old Londoner playing a security guard who brings chaos into the life of a tightly wound professional (Maxine Peake). Empire visited the high rise set and sat down with the actor to discuss villainy, type-casting and his "wanky actor zone". |
|  | | Pete Docter And Jonas Rivera Talk Pixar's Inside Out
Recently in LA Pixar director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera sat down with our James White to talk about what's in store from their forthcoming film, Inside Out, a story set almost entirely inside the mind of a young girl, and starring her emotions as characters. Here's a clue as to what we can expect from Pixar's most cerebral film yet. |
|  | | Miss Game Of Thrones Already? Here's The Solution...
Game Of Thrones has finished for another year, but if you're jonesing for a fix of mayhem, murder and conspiracy, fear not! Our Dan Jolin has found the answer, in a series of French historical novels that inspired George R. R. Martin himself. But beware: since they're all based on real history, anyone might spoil them for you. Read on, quickly! |
|  | | Aml Ameen Talks The Maze Runner And More
Aml Ameen is a young British actor with a lot of different projects coming up, from Maze Runner to, well, a movie no-one's officially allowed to talk about yet. Previous big hits on the 28-year-old's CV include Kidulthood, The Butler and Red Tails, not forgetting The Bill (which we certainly don't). Here is a brief conversation with the up-and-comer, which is a must read for all fans of The Maze Runner in its young adult novel form... |
|  | | Empire Presents the New York Film Academy
New York Film Academy has built a reputation as one of the premier film schools in the world. With its innovative hands-on approach to teaching, students find themselves completely immersed in their course of study, surrounded by award-winning faculty and working with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Learn Filmmaking, Acting for Film, Photography, Musical Theatre, Game Design, Animation and more. |
 A whole heap of awfully tasty Lattice crisps from Seabrook Crisps in Yorkshire. They're waffle cut, which is a funny word when you think about it. Waffle. Waffle.
 
The entire cast of The Escapist are apparently Geminis. 
Elijah Wood is a huge fan of Irn Bru. 
Before signing up to appear in The Leftovers, Liv Tyler was considering quitting acting. 
Producer Jason Blum had never come across the term DIY, although he does a lot of it. 
The Brian Cox who we don't call Professor Brian Cox is also a professor.
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If you have any timewasters to share, then e-mail them in to us. |  We're looking for a collective noun for this array of Scottish goodies delivered by loyal Empire reader @ChampCelluloid for the Edinburgh podcast. A McFlurry, perhaps? Also, thanks Dallas!
 
Cold In July 
A character-driven thriller with more twists than an off-the-map dirt road, awards-quality performances from the three leads, a rare sensitivity to the after-effects of horror and a sure directorial hand. Mickle and Damici officially segue from 'promising' to 'delivering'. Also Out
 
Blazing Saddles 
Mel Brooks' cult comedy Western. Also Out
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