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AS I WRITE THIS, THE WORLD IS GEARING UP FOR THE Oscars; as you read this, the ceremony will have happened. While normally a hotbed of debate around who’s been robbed, who didn’t deserve it, who did, what history will remember and what it will forget, this year it’s taken a different turn. Unless you’ve been nestled under a rock, you’ll know the awards have been mired in controversy, with some actors boycotting the event and others planning to attend but publicly criticising the Academy for the lack of diversity in the nominations. Wherever you stand on the debate — and I personally support those taking a stand for what they see as a hugely concerning lack of representation — it’s an issue that Hollywood needs to recognise and address.…

1 RETURNING! Despite last being seen heading for a trash compactor on the doomed Starkiller Base, Gwendoline Christie has confirmed that the chrome-covered First Order villain Captain Phasma will return for Episode VIII. Perhaps this means Captain Phasma toys were really popular, or could Rian Johnson have big plans for her? Perhaps another showdown with John Boyega’s Finn? 2 DELAYED! Episode VIII has been pushed back from its May 2017 release to December 15, 2017. It follows the astonishing success of The Force Awakens, which also opened in December and promptly sailed past the $2 billion mark at the box office. With Disney’s other space opera, Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 2, also set for May, it now gives both movies plenty of room to breathe. 3 RUMOURED! Rogue One,…

NOT OUR WORDS, BUT THE words of Hansel in the original Zoolander. But they made us think — could Billy Zane actually help Empire readers with their problems? And now we’re proud to say that the answer is, “Yes.” Please welcome Empire’s first Agony Uncle — a man who’s dead calm under pressure. Dear Billy, My girlfriend and I are at breaking point. I have always preferred to categorise my DVD collection alphabetically, but my girlfriend prefers colour coding. It may seem trivial, but it’s putting strain on our relationship — when I want to watch Die Hard, I don’t know where to look. What do you think I should do? PG BILLY SAYS: One word, PG: Netflix! Otherwise, don’t obsess. Go with her colour coding. Who cares? Keep her…

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while Hollywood columnist Jeffrey Wells said it was “a film everyone, and I mean everyone, thought was appalling.” Later screenings proved more successful, while the movie also picked up the Dramatic Directing Award for its co-directors, and US distributor A24 bought it with an eye for a summer release. It’s certainly worth looking out for, but best stand upwind just in case. ONE SUNDANCE MOVIE it’s probably fair to assume won’t be bothering the Oscar ballot next year is Swiss Army Man. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s tale of a loner (Paul Dano) who befriends a farting corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) arrived with no little buzz. However, early screenings of the movie proved divisive, with reports of walkouts from some audience members,…

• BADGES: MARCO VITTUR LAURIE ROSE (ABOVE, with Tom Hiddleston on the set of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise) is one of the fastest-rising cinematographers in the business, renowned for his work on Made In Stone, Bill and all of Wheatley’s films to date. But he also moonlights. Since 2009, regardless of whether he’s shooting a film or a TV show, Rose has had badges made every week (by www.badgestation.co.uk) that he then hands out to cast and crew. “I’ve had easily 3,500 badges made over the past five years,” he says. At about £25 per 100, that’s a not inconsiderable outlay of around £875. It’s worth it when Badge Day rolls round on set, though. “Friday has become the traditional day for badges, usually heralding the end of the working week,”…

The Pearl Button OUT MARCH 18 / CERT. TBC / 82 MINS. DIRECTOR Patricio Guzmán CAST Martin G. Calderon, Gabriela Paterito, Emma Malig, Gabriel Salazar This companion documentary to the director’s Nostalgia For The Light contrasts the 19th-century cleansing of Chile’s indigenous tribes with the brutal Pinochet regime. But while the visuals are striking, the poetic musings of Patricio Guzmán’s voiceover undermine his political fury. DP Norm Of The North OUT MARCH 18 / CERT. U / 90 MINS. DIRECTOR Trevor Wall CAST (VOICES) Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Bill Nighy This charmless tale is committed to ‘wacky’ humour, with Rob Schneider voicing a chatty polar bear out to save his Arctic home. Mild gross-out gags and a chattering chorus of lemmings make it a chore for anyone over…

THX 1138 (1971) THE LAW Sex is a crime, and mind-altering drugs are mandatory. THE PUNISHMENT Offenders are chased by police robots with scary chrome faces, and “mindlocked”. Logan’s Run (1976) THE LAW At the age of 30, you die. THE PUNISHMENT Death, via the ritual of “Carrouseul”. Essentially you’re vaporised in a cross between the Coliseum and a giant salad-spinner. Footloose (1984) THE LAW No dancing! No rock music! No footloosing! THE PUNISHMENT Confiscation of your Sunday shoes. Demolition Man (1993) THE LAW The Verbal Morality Statute, banning the public from using unwholesome language. THE PUNISHMENT Fines, dispensed via tickets that double as toilet paper, which is useful. Equilibrium (2002) THE LAW Emotions are banned. Hence reading poetry, gawping at art or listening to music makes you a ‘Sense…

Columbia Studios did battle with itself in 1964, producing Stanley Kubrick and Sidney Lumet’s accounts of a nuclear stand-off, which came out within a fortnight of each other. THE RESULT Box-office figures for Fail Safe aren’t available but it’s safe to say the stiletto-sharp Kubrickian satire, out first on Kubrick’s insistence, won out over Lumet’s carefully crafted drama. Pierce Brosnan and Tommy Lee Jones both battled mucho magma and ‘pyroclastic flows’ within a couple of months of each other in 1997. THE RESULT Neither exactly blew the top off the box office but erupting first no doubt helped Dante’s Peak to a take of $178 million while Volcano took $122 million. In 1998, Hollywood sent a brace of space boulders hurtling towards the planet’s box office. Mimi Leder’s Deep Impact…

DVD BLU-RAY iTUNES SKY STORE SKY MOVIES NETFLIX AMAZON Carol FROM MARCH 21 / CERT. 15 WOMEN IN LOVE THE CHALLENGE for most movie romances is finding a reason to keep the two people on the poster apart for the majority of the running time, thereby creating tension to carry the audience to the triumphant (or tragic) finale. In hackneyed melodramas and weak romcoms, this involves laboured set-ups, out-of-character tantrums and contrived obstacles. In Carol, as with director Todd Haynes’ earlier Far From Heaven, there are compelling reasons of social prejudice to ensure that the two female lovers keep their distance. Still, the need to be together is greater than any obstruction, and so Carol gets the sweep and power of the best love stories without any trace of artificiality.…

Paper Planes FROM NOW / CERT. U In rural Australia, a precocious tyke competes in the national paper-plane-throwing competition, with help from his dysfunctional family. Played broad and breezy, there’s little attempt to cater to over-tens, and while it’s hard to begrudge the twinkly-eyed young cast — many of whom outshine the grown-ups — this sort of thing has been done better before. JNU Infinitely Polar Bear FROM NOW / CERT. 15 This semi-autobiographical tale of two children being raised by their manic-depressive father in always-sunny 1970s Boston tackles mental health with the lightest of touches. So twee and cheerful that you long for some conflict, but Mark Ruffalo — a tightly wound coil of puppyish energy and terrifying irresponsibility — gives an enthralling performance. JNU The Last Witch Hunter…

SPOOKS: THE GREATER GOOD While we wait to see whether Kit Harington will return to Game Of Thrones, check out his performance here as fresh-faced spy Will Holloway. Spoiler: at no point is he assaulted by wights. FROM MARCH 18 MR. HOLMES After warming up by reading a Sherlock Holmes audiobook, Ian McKellen plays the sleuth onscreen. After Christopher Lee, this makes him the second cast member of The Lord Of The Rings to do so. Could Sean Astin be next? FROM MARCH 25 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) takes on his colleagues at S.H.I.E.L.D.. Features Marvel’s most bone-crunching action yet, including an elevator fracas you’re best off not recreating at work. FROM MARCH 12 INSIDE OUT The Good Dinosaur flopped, but Pixar’s other movie of…

Alex Cox’s Introduction To Film AUTHOR ALEX COX / OUT NOW The Repo Man director and original host of the much-missed BBC strand Moviedrome has turned a series of lectures on film into an excellent beginners’ guide to movies. Interactive in nature (you’ll have to pause to watch clips and whole films, some so obscure you may have to obtain them from Cox himself) and fascinating throughout, it’s as close to a revival of Moviedrome as we’re going to get. CH The Cinematic Legacy Of Frank Sinatra AUTHOR DAVID WILLS / OUT NOW David Wills, who wrote Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis and Audrey: The 60s, charts Sinatra’s evolution from fresh-faced crooner to Oscar-earning heavyweight via publicity shots, film stills and posters. Essays from Sinatra’s children and Wills himself provide overview and…

• JEFF VESPA/CONTOUR BY GETTY I HERE HAVE BEEN cameos, there have been supporting roles, and there have been lead roles in offbeat fare like St. Vincent. But believe it or not, it’s been over a decade since Bill Murray toplined an out-and-out comedy. That was Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, and if that’s still a little too arch for you, then it’s been an astonishing 19 years since The Man Who Knew Too Little. That’s a long time for the funniest man in the world not to be plying his trade. But Murray the mirth-maker is back this month in Barry Levinson’s Rock The Kasbah, in which he plays a failed rock promoter on an eventful tour of Afghanistan. With Afghanistan unavailable, Empire went to the…

Who were you in your first school play? Peter Pan, at the Hill Primary School in Caversham. They put me in very green, tight tights and the cap with the feather in it and I danced around a lot, spinning around the gym. Born to never grow up. Do people ever quote your dialogue back at you? People like the line, “I want to be the Queen” (from Game Of Thrones). I do get that one, but not as much as you’d think. I was asked a lot whether I killed Joffrey a couple of years ago and everyone’s favourite question now is whether Jon Snow is dead. What’s your answer? I’m like, “Come on, guys, you only have to wait until April.” What scares you? I’m afraid of cliff…

THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE IS A 1990 STORY IN WHICH CAPTAIN AMERICA TEAMS up with Daredevil to protect a smalltown inventor from the FBI and government goons. Voicing the opinions of Daredevil’s unapologetically liberal writer Ann Nocenti, he opened his heart to the Man Without Fear about the sins of Reagan and Bush’s America and fretted, “How can they expect me to continue to wear the flag of a country that does such things?” Even Daredevil was taken aback. One reader was so unhappy with this bleeding-heart Cap that he sent a curt letter to the editor: “Get the commie off the book.” People take Captain America very seriously. In 2007, writer Ed Brubaker said, “What I found is that all the really hardcore left-wing fans want Cap to be giving…

TOMMY LEE JONES Putting his intimidating bark and deadpan stare to good use as super-soldier-program boss Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Jones was left on the runway in the 1940s. His best chance of an encore is a flashback cameo. Well, either that or time travel. CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON In Thor: The Dark World (2013), Eccleston subsumed himself in prosthetics as dark elf overlord Malekith. He’s probably not in a rush to return to the make-up chair, and was definitively squished by his own spaceship at the climax. Yet villains have survived worse. Malekith could return… AS FLATMAN! HUGO WEAVING Another First Avenger alumnus, and another actor who performed villainy under prosthetics, as HYDRA-führer Red Skull. But he was disintegrated by the Tesseract, right? Or was…

Suffragette FROM NOW / CERT. 12 Propelled by righteous indignation and soaring to a heart-stopping climax, Suffragette tells a no-frills story of the fight for women’s right to vote. Sticking it to the man in rousing if not quite spectacular style, Sarah Gavron’s film features an outstanding Carey Mulligan as a laundress squeezed through the emotional wringer. ES Hotel Transylvania 2 FROM NOW / CERT. U Adam Sandler’s vampiric hotelier tackles grandfatherhood in this hyperactively animated sequel aimed squarely at your little monsters. It’s not high art, but the target audience will go bats for the Count’s wacky attempts to turn his grandson to the Drac side. A threequel for this Adam’s family would not be entirely unwelcome. NA The Intern FROM FEBRUARY 29 / CERT. 12 The kindest thing…

CLASSIC MONSTERS make a comeback in Damien Leone’s well-meaning if overlong Frankenstein Vs. The Mummy. On a present-day American campus, Frankenstein (bland Max Rhyser) places the brain of a vile bodysnatcher into his monster (Constantin Tripes), while an Egyptology prof (Boomer Tibbs) vivifies an evil mummy (Brandon deSpain) by sacrificing coeds. Tripes’ articulate creature is unusually malicious, but (as ever) the mummy comes in a dusty second. David Gelb’s The Lazarus Effect is a subtler Frankenstein-on-campus tale which harks back to classic mad science but has a plethora of up-to-date concerns. Significantly named scientist Frank (Mark Duplass) devises a defibrillator-equivalent to overcome brain death. When partner Zoe (Olivia Wilde) — Greek for “life” — is electrocuted, Frank brings her back as an otherworldly, altered being with Lucy-like enhanced brain activity,…

• ILLUSTRATION: PETER STRAIN Bruce Willis THIS MONTH, ON MARCH 19, a certain action veteran turns 61. Three cheers for Bruce Willis: “Yip! Yip!” “Ki-yay!” Actually, this birthday Bruce-a-thon is 100 per cent Die Hard-free: there aren’t any on Netflix. What is on offer is a mixed grill of classics, clunkers and curios. Any career spanning 70 films in 30 years is bound to have its quality wobbles, but draw a graph of Willis’ filmography and it looks like a saw or a mountain-range: a long, jagged wave of ups and downs. Bruce is unbreakable but he’s also unguessable. This is the man who followed up Die Hard 2 with Look Who’s Talking Too. Expect a bumpy ride. What with all those knockdowns and comebacks, Willis’ career resembles that of…

The Water Babies 1978 / FROM MARCH 21 / CERT. U If you thought Bedknobs And Broomsticks was too realistic, try this ’70s curio, in which a chimney sweep falls into an animated underwater world. James Mason voices a mustachioed shark, the songs are jaunty and its young hero is more ebullient than Oliver Twist. Rough-hewn compared to Ghibli or Pixar, but not without trippy charm. PDS Ed Wood 1994 / FROM NOW / CERT. 15 The wacko world of director Edward D. Wood Jr. is reimagined in sumptuous monochrome in Tim Burton’s double-Oscar-winning biopic. Fusing the kitsch and macabre, it’s a subject that fits its director like a cosy coffin. Johnny Depp is a riot as Wood, but Martin Landau leaves the indelible impression as fallen horror idol Bela…

The Seven-Ups 1973 FROM MARCH 7 CERT. 12 Or The French Connection 1.5. Same producer, same bleak New York streets and the same star, with Roy Scheider duplicating his dirty cop. The Mafia-kidnapping plot gets into a tangle, but there’s much to love about Philip D’Antoni’s stark thriller, which restages Psycho’s shower scene in a carwash and boasts an immense, grunting car chase to rival Bullitt. Fixed Bayonets! 1951 FROM NOW CERT. PG Sam Fuller’s Korean War classic bunkers down in a snowbound outpost with a platoon as they wait for the Red Army. There are mighty bursts of action, but the prevailing mood is one of clenched desperation: in Fuller’s world, heroism was always an act of brutal necessity. The final scene offers cinema’s first, brief glimpse of James…

BADLAND 2 iOS The original mobile megahit had you frantically tapping your screen to make a shaggy black blob flap around obstacles. The sequel adds a second thumb to the mix. Controversial. You can now flap forwards or backwards depending on which side of the screen you touch. It may not sound like a game-changer but the result is multi-directional mazes that make the original feel horribly limited. MAGIC: THE GATHERING — PUZZLE QUEST iOS/ANDROID It’s the unholy union you’ve been waiting for: match-three gem-pushing meets collectible card battler. Surprisingly, the result is the best Puzzle Quest in years, where your gem-matching exploits feed a mana pool that powers your spells and creatures, which in turn melt your opponent’s face. The free-to-play money-grabbage is kept to a welcome minimum, too.…

MARYLEBONE station, and the train arriving at platform one is late... by about four decades. Thanks to some epic set-dressing voodoo, the crew working on The Conjuring 2 have wound the clock back to 1977 and it’s scarily convincing. Raleigh Choppers are propped against fences. There’s a poster up for Exorcist II: The Heretic. Extras are wearing enough corduroy and polyester to qualify as a fire hazard. Stepping off an immaculately grotty British Rail carriage, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, returning as Ed and Lorraine Warren, the real-life demon-busters whose exploits anchored 2013’s The Conjuring, exit the platform and climb into an Austin Allegro. Suddenly, Farmiga freezes and her eyes glaze over. In the crowd, something is looking back... Five minutes in London and she’s already seeing dead people. The…

KARAOKE! Murray loves karaoke. In 2011, he joined some revellers in New York’s Karaoke One 7, and dueted on Elvis Presley’s His Latest Flame . BASEBALL! Murray co-owns the minor baseball team the Charleston RiverDogs. In 2012, when a game was rained off, he gave the crowd something to watch by belly-sliding around on a massive tarpaulin. BARTENDING! When he visited the SXSW festival in 2010, Murray did shots at the bar with Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and GZA. Then he hopped behind the bar and started serving tequila to the crowd. DISHWASHING! In 2006, student Lykke Stavnef met Murray in a bar in Scotland and invited him to a party she was attending. Murray cheerfully tagged along, and helped wash the dishes before he left. KICKBALL! In 2012, Chris DiLella…

UNMISSABLE EXCELLENT GOOD POOR TRAGIC Hail, Caesar! OUT MARCH 4 / CERT. TBC / TBC MINS. DIRECTORS Joel Coen, Ethan Coen CAST Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum PLOT Hollywood, the ’50s. Capitol Pictures is making prestige picture Hail, Caesar! A Tale Of The Christ when its star (Clooney) disappears. Studio fixer Eddie Mannix (Brolin) has to bring him back, while also dealing with other daily issues. IF SELF-PLAGIARISM were a criminal offence, the Coen brothers would be facing a long stretch in San Quentin. Hail, Caesar! shares the Hollywood-studio setting of Barton Fink, and, no doubt to the delight of Coenverse theorists everywhere, the exact-same fictional studio: Capitol Pictures (they’ve come a long way from Wallace Beery wrestling flicks). Its plot,…

THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2016) Tarantino cast the star of The Thing, as well as using its music cues and ambience. “It’s the only movie I showed the cast,” he says, adding, “And Reservoir Dogs was very much influenced by The Thing.” SCREAM (1996) Carpenter directed buddy Wes Craven in 1993’s Body Bags; three years later, Craven littered Scream with references to Halloween, from Billy Loomis’ surname to a glimpse of the film on a TV. LOCKOUT (2012) Not so much an affectionate tribute to Escape From New York as an aggressive rip-off. This Luc Besson sci-fi film has so many similarities to the 1981 classic that Carpenter sued. And won. GHOSTS OF MARS (2001) Carpenter pays homage to himself when Pam Grier’s character asks, “Who goes there?” (The title of…

Angelyne Singer-actress-model Angelyne grabbed attention during the mid-1980s by promoting herself on Hollywood billboards. Also dabbling in art and even politics (in a 2003 California election she ranked 28th out of 135 candidates), she’s referred to herself as a “unicorn icon” and is often seen tooling around LA in her hot pink Corvette. LA Jesus Real name Kevin Lee Light, the Messiah-impersonator has wandered the streets of Los Angeles since 2009, posing for photographs and dishing out advice, and even came to London to ‘bless’ Oxford Street shoppers in 2014. It’s still not clear why, and fittingly he refuses to accept cash. In 2012 Aerosmith wrote Street Jesus about him. The Tree Man Of Venice Stroll along Venice Boardwalk, and you won’t mistake Lionel Powell for anyone else. He is…

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 1 FROM MARCH 7 / CERT. TBC 30 Rock meets Room, Tina Fey’s odd but often inspired comedy follows a woman after she escapes captivity. Its courtroom-based final stretch works less well, but star Ellie Kemper shines, while Martin Short is wondrously deranged as plastic-faced plastic surgeon Dr. Grant, pronounced ‘Franff’. NDS The Last Panthers: Season 1 FROM NOW / CERT. 15 Sky’s prestige drama boasts a marvellous cast and authentically grubby criminal-underworld look, but could do with a bit more plot. It shows the fall-out after a diamond heist, but ambition overwhelms it, with the myriad characters and locations making the pace frustratingly slow. OR Bloodline: Season 1 FROM MARCH 21 / CERT. TBC This classy Netflix 13-parter from the team behind Damages is riveting.…

Nina Forever The Blaine brothers’ Nina Forever is an unusual, striking Brit-horror gem. Paramedic Holly (Abigail Hardingham) is drawn to Rob (Cian Barry), partly because She's intrigued by his tragic background -- which includes a dead ex and a suicide bid. Whenever they have sex, the dead Nina (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) manifests, naked and bleeding. What's really creepy (and interesting) is that Holly gradually becomes fixated on the ghost. Acute about lingering grief and polite British misery, this is sexy, scary and blackly comic. Aquarius Season 1 of this gritty, trippy crime drama follows tough cop Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny) and this groovier partners as they crack cases in 1967 Los Angeles. Searching for the missing daughter of a politically connected lawyer, Hodiak comes across hustler/ pimp/wannabe pop star Charles Manson…

Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice: The Art Of The Film AUTHOR PETER APERLO / OUT MARCH 22 BATTLE STORIES ZACK SNYDER’S upcoming tentpole is heavily inspired by graphic novels, so there’s something satisfying about seeing shots from it rendered as inky concept art. This coffee-table compendium is stuffed with moody, beautiful vistas — a giant statue of Superman kneeling in Metropolis’ Heroes Park, Bruce Wayne’s De-Niro’spad-from-Heat-esque glass lakehouse, a crumbling Batcave in which everything dangles from the ceiling via wires. Stark and ultra-serious, the artwork confirms what we all suspected: the darkest hour is just before the dawn. Of justice. Though it’s half a celebration of the film’s aesthetic and half a stroll through its story, there’s a certain caginess here, perhaps because the book is out three days…

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JARED HARRIS SHOULD PLAY RED SKULL IN THE NEXT AVENGERS MOVIE AFTER INFINITY WAR. EXPLAIN IT WITH THE FACT THAT THE RED SKULL IS HIS REAL FACE AND THE OTHER WAS A MASK... MARC SCHAUS, FACEBOOK Thanks, Jared! Loved you in Poltergeist. Seen The Force Awakens a few times. Poe Dameron is Ace Rimmer. Smoke me a kipper! PAUL FIANDER-TURNER (@HAVINARADOX) ANYONE MADE THIS JOKE YET? DARRAGH LUCEY (@DRHUXTON) I had no idea that Captain EO even existed until Alex Godfrey’s superb @empiremagazine feature. I have to see this! MATTHEW RODGERS (@MAINSTREAMMATT) COVER LOVER Whoever came up with the idea of asking Jim Lee to come up with a ‘Variant Cover’ deserves a raise. First younger family member that comes at that cover with a fistful of crayons is going…