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WHEN YOU READ THIS IT’LL BE JUST A FEW DAYS SINCE the Jameson Empire Awards — our annual celebration of the absolute best in the world of film. We’ll have saluted the winners, held the also-rans as they wept, welcomed the new, said goodbye to those that we sadly lost, had a few drams, made a show of ourselves on the dance floor, slept a little and loved a lot. You see, apart from a rollicking good party, the wonderful thing about the Awards is that we get to spend a few hours in a room of people who love what we love as fiercely as we love it. Not just that, they’re the ones who actually make it. They’re responsible for that churn of excitement and trepidation that fills…

1 REVEALED! Filming on Episode VIII is well and truly underway. To mark this auspicious occasion, a video was posted on starwars.com that showed writer-director Rian Johnson and crew filming a scene on Skellig Michael, the Irish island that has become Luke Skywalker’s temporary home. The scene appears to pick up where The Force Awakens left off... 2 CONFIRMED! Along with the video came confirmation of most of Episode VIII’s key cast, including those we knew about (John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher), those who’d been rumoured (Benicio Del Toro) and those we didn’t see coming (Laura Dern and newcomer Kelly Marie Tran). Curiously, Peter Mayhew’s name was left off the list. 3 RUMOURED! Although Episode VIII is still 18 months away, salvation, it…

As one set of prison doors open, another… also open. After a hiatus of five years, Prison Break — the ludicrously enjoyable fox tV show about a pair of brothers who travel the world indulging their hobby of absconding from seemingly inescapable fortresses — is back. Like previous fox shows 24 and more recently The X-Files, Prison Break will be enjoying a revival as a limited edition ‘event series’, and will start shooting in Vancouver soon. Although the show was cancelled after four seasons of increasingly diminishing returns in both storytelling and ratings, there’s been a recent surge of interest thanks to the show pitching up on netflix, and the reunion of Wentworth Miller and dominic purcell, who played the brothers at the show’s heart, in both The Flash and…

THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA (the uncannY X-Men, #129-138, 1980) “Anyone can write a story about people hitting people,” says Claremont. “But to try to make it meaningful and relevant, that’s a gamechanger.” After taking over the title, he aimed to “keep everyone guessing”. His boldest move was turning Jean Grey into the planet-annihilating Dark Phoenix, before killing her off. “We established for the readers that our heroes were at legitimate risk,” he says. Many weren’t happy. “Frank Miller and I kept notes because Frank got death threats when he killed off Elektra and I got death threats when I killed off Phoenix.” DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (the uncannY X-Men, #141-142, 1981) The socially conscious Claremont used mutants as a metaphor for other marginalised groups. “Their struggle is not simply to…

Warning: playing a sword-wielding telekinetic warrior can be hazardous to your health. “I’ve been banged up and put back together,” says Olivia Munn, showing off arms stippled with red and black welts from fight training. “And I pulled both hamstrings,” she says. “It’s a weird thing to be in so much pain and yet be excited by it.” Munn’s excitement stems from a place of pure, undiluted joy: the fulfilment of a childhood dream. As far back as she can remember, she’s always wanted to be Psylocke. “I come from a family that would talk about X-Men as if it were the Civil War,” she says. “Every week, we would go get the comic books. It was our childhood. I’ve loved Psylocke for so long.” Munn’s enthusiasm for the character…

Bridge Of Spies FROM NOW / CERT. 12 RUSSIAN ROULETTE MARK WHO? IT’S total Hollywood bullshit,” thundered Frank Stallone on Twitter the day after the Oscars, before adding, “Mark Rylance couldn’t even comb his hair for Christ sake.” Sly’s brother later apologised for his bizarrely phrased slam, and we’re guessing if he ever sees Bridge Of Spies he’ll gain a bit more respect for the man who beat his sibling to the gold. Playing Soviet spy Rudolf Abel with a refined Scottish accent (though none other than Sting has weighed in, saying it should have been Geordie), Rylance’s performance is still, subdued and saturnine. Every movement, however tiny, is deliberate. He radiates intelligence and poise. And yes, his hair is very well-combed, though there’s a chance he may not have…

• IllustratIon: peter straIn (kIm portraIt) “NO, THIS ISN’T RIGHT! YOU CAN’T GO AROUND SEWING CANNONS TO PEOPLE!”ARMY OF FRANKENSTEINS WHEN A GARAGE band play an ancient chant, demons overwhelm a small New Zealand town. Jason Lei Howden’s Deathgasm is a surprisingly charming — if ultra-violent and ultra-loud — comedy horror. The metalhead hero (Milo Cawthorne) slowly realises his rebel friend (James Blake) is not only a poser but a demented, selfish bastard who invites possession by an arch-fiend. It features exorcism by dildo skull-penetration, but is fast and fun enough to get away with it. Villains of a more traditional kind — sort of — drive Ryan Bellgardt’s Army Of Frankensteins, which is wildly ambitious on limited means. Thanks to mad science — the mastermind is Dr. Tanner Finski…

• IllustratIon: peter straIn IT’S A QUESTION THAT’S baffled mankind’s greatest brains: are we alone in the universe? Well, Hollywood has an answer to that, which it’s repeated endlessly since the 1950s. No, we’re not, and here are the special effects to prove it. This year alone, we’ll be gatecrashed by The Fifth Wave, Terminus, The Blob and, pending an Apple update, Independence Day: Resurgence. Offering an A to Z of planet-trashing ETs, Netflix is chest-bursting with the buggers. First up, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers . Made in 1978, when the toxic haze of Watergate was still thick, Philip Kaufman’s horror reflects the era’s pervasive paranoia, but its vision of soulless conformity still leaves a biting chill in the 21st century. Infected by a cosmic fungus, humanity’s cloned into…

Eureka 1983 / From NOW / Cert. 18 this minor Nicolas roeg film often gets forgotten amidst his better-known masterworks. It has its flaws, with the story — a prospector (Gene Hackman) gets rich then fears for his moolah — occasionally secondary to the virtuoso filmmaking. But it’s worth a look, if only for the succulent support from bad guys Joe Pesci and mickey rourke. AS Re-Animator 1985 / From NOW / Cert. 18 For his take on H. P. Lovecraft’s short story, Stuart Gordon eschewed the author’s existential cosmic dread, instead upping the gore. Jeffrey Combs excels as Herbert West, a mad scientist who resurrects the dead, not that they’re happy about it. Gordon adroitly handles the schlock and awe, the result still one of the great horror-comedies. CH…

Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion Authors VARIOUS / out NOW ROUGH DIAMONDS DURING HIS introduction to this compendium of essays, Ben Wheatley reminisces about renting Taxi Driver on VHS at the age of 15. “By the end of the film,” he says, “I felt like I’d had my head scraped out and reset.” That is a solid description of the effect any of the movies mentioned in this book will have on the average viewer. A celebration of “cinematic sleaze droplets” (to borrow a phrase from Robin Bougie’s contribution), the entries collected here revel in celluloid’s seamier side. If it’s got misshapen stars, poo-eating hookers or a scene in which a man eats a cat’s eyeball — an actual thing that happens in 1934’s Maniac — chances are it’ll…

DUNGELOT: SHATTERED LANDS iOS ‘Rogue-likes’ are a genre based around random levels, punishing difficulty and the constant threat of permanent death. Dungelot: Shattered Lands is one such title and has you looting and hacking through endless dungeons while flipping over tiles like a kind of axe-winging Minesweeper. Merciless, moreish and full of skeleton snipers. CRASHLANDS iOS/ANDROID Despite its title’s connotations of destruction, Crashlands is, at heart, a crafting game with a little role-playing thrown in for extra flavouring. You take the role of Flux Dabes, a robot whose ship has seen better days. By scavenging and combining components (more compelling than it sounds) you build your way to victory, beating up the occasional space hippo along the way.…

SUICIDE SQUAD CAST: Jared Leto, Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney BOX OFFICE (BILLIONS) $4.96 ACTORS’ AVERAGE IMDB RANKING: 388 NOW YOU SEE ME 2 CAST: Mark Ruffalo, Daniel Radcliffe, Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson BOX OFFICE (BILLIONS) $11.2 ACTORS’ AVERAGE IMDB RANKING: 521 X-MEN: APOCALYPSE CAST: Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Oscar Isaac, Rose Byrne BOX OFFICE (BILLIONS) $7.1 ACTORS’ AVERAGE IMDB RANKING: 142 CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR CAST: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Chadwick Boseman BOX OFFICE (BILLIONS) $9.11 ACTORS’ AVERAGE IMDB RANKING: 405 BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE CAST: Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams BOX OFFICE (BILLIONS) $7.4 ACTORS’ AVERAGE IMDB RANKING: 307…

On a scale of one to ten, how famous are you? I’m a two. The interesting thing about fame is, if Mark Ruffalo and Eamonn Holmes were to walk along Oxford Street or through High Wycombe, I’d imagine Eamonn Holmes would get far more attention and hassle. I was on Jonathan Ross at the weekend with Taylor Lautner, who is evidently a big deal, but I’m a 50 year-old man, so hadn’t had the fortune for him to touch my life yet. He was a lovely kid, but I’m not a Twilight person. I like the chocolates of the same name. Where’s the strangest place you’ve been recognised? We were canoeing down the Ardèche, a huge gorge in France, and I was getting people shouting across the water to me.…

Are you an actor? Do you want to increase your chances of appearing in an X-Men movie? Then there’s one sure-fire way to catch Bryan Singer’s eye: appear in Game Of Thrones. With Peter Dinklage (aka Tyrion Lannister) having played Days Of Future Past’s chief rotter, Bolivar Trask, Singer has raided Westeros again for Apocalypse, casting Sansa Stark herself, Sophie Turner, as the new Jean Grey. “I met Bryan in London,” recalls Turner. “He was superjetlagged, but when he saw my CV he was like, ‘Fucking Game Of Thrones!’ That perked him up. He’s a big fan.” It’s a surprise Turner wasn’t already on Singer’s wishlist for this youthful version of the powerful telepath, originally played by Famke Janssen. Tall, red of hair, formidable of disposition, she ticks all of…

Talk to your average 19 year-old bloke, and chances are you’ll tackle the following topics: sport (possibly football), music, the tweets of Kim Kardashian. Kodi Smit-McPhee is not your average 19 year-old bloke. “I study quantum physics and ancient Egyptian religion and ancient philosophy and Egyptian philosophy,” he says, in an almost off-hand manner, before going on to outline the kind of bewilderingly big-brained theories that would have Beast reaching for the smelling salts. Deepak Chopra is name-dropped, as is the Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth, and the philosopher Hermes Trismegistus. It’s clear why Bryan Singer calls him ‘The Prophet’. It’s also clear why the young Australian actor, who previously graced the likes of The Road , Slow West and Let Me In , is a perfect fit for this…

The leap from Peter Beale on EastEnders to winged mutant was, as you’d expect, a formidable one for Ben Hardy. “I was terrified,” he says of his first day shooting X-Men: Apocalypse. “My girlfriend was over and she’ll tell you, the night before I was not good to be around at all. There wasn’t much sleep that night, and not in the good sense...” After the cameras had finally rolled on his first scene, the nerves didn’t abate much. “I was part of the ensemble and didn’t have any dialogue,” he recalls. “Which meant I was nervous again the first time I had dialogue!” As portrayed in the early editions of the X-Men series, Angel is a brash, outspoken playboy, the heir to a major corporation: not a million miles…

ALFIE ALLEN (Theon Greyjoy) “Keep your head down, and your cock hidden.” JONATHAN PRYCE (High Sparrow) “Be nice to the writers. Plead with them to keep you alive for just one more season, so you can have a bit of money to retire.” IWAN RHEON (Ramsay Bolton) “Be ruthless.” LIAM CUNNINGHAM (Davos Seaworth) “Don’t make eye contact with the producers. Don’t go for dinner with them. Because anything can happen. You put a deposit down on a Ferrari then you’re dead.” ISAAC HEMPSTEAD-WRIGHT (Bran Stark) “Getting in a cave and staying there is a pretty good survival method.” DEAN-CHARLES CHAPMAN (Tommen Lannister) “Don’t be a Lannister. Or a Stark. Or a Snow.” MAISIE WILLIAMS (Arya Stark) “Don’t be in it for power. That’s bad news. So many characters have started…

OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS (1928) Crawford's breakthrough role saw her play an outwardly outrageous flapper with a secretly demure heart. Her true love marries her apparently saintly best friend, but soon discovers his new wife has a genuinely scandalous side while Crawford is true of heart. The film was shocking on the surface but secretly soppy, testing the Hays Code but delighting audiences. THE GORGEOUS HUSSY (1936) Crawford plays early women’s rights advocate Margaret O’Neill in this historical biopic, opposite Lionel Barrymore as President Andrew Jackson and with male admirers including Melvyn Douglas, Robert Taylor and Franchot Tone (Crawford's soon-to-be husband). It’s no Lincoln , but O’Neill is a fascinating figure even in this sexed-up version of her story. SUSAN AND GOD (1940) From a script by Anita ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’…

Citizen Dick (Singles, 1992) “Their song (Touch Me I’m Dick ) is a parody of Mudhoney: raw, with inane lyrics. Their look is obviously typical of that scene, but I don’t think they’d get far today.” Autobahn (The Big Lebowski, 1998) “Nihilists in black leather — what’s not to like?! I like the vibe and production, and since tastes seem to be cyclical, they may have a chance of getting signed.” The Venus In Furs (Velvet Goldmine, 1998) “The lyrics are ridiculous, but they do have a great ’70s glam vibe. With the right producer this could be of interest in today’s market.” Stillwater (Almost Famous, 2000) “They evoke everything good about the ’70s: image, great front man. I think despite having a generic sound they’d do well now, as…

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 FROM NOW / CERT. 12 After the low-carb fun-suck of Mockingjay — Part 1, director Francis Lawrence gives fans a finale they can devour, which sees Katniss and co. take the fight to the Capitol. Lawrence nails every steely scowl, and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final on-screen moments are powerfully poignant. JD Sisters FROM APRIL 11 / CERT. 15 Comedy goddesses tina Fey and Amy Poehler play middle-aged siblings in different kinds of crisis who throw a rip-roaring farewell bash for their childhood home. It’s the most skeletal of premises, but the leads bring their A-game and rustle up some superb support as they illustrate that you’re never old enough to know better. ES Krampus FROM APRIL 11 / CERT. 15 There’s loads of…

The Final Girls todd straussschulson’s first film since A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas stars taissa Farmiga as max, daughter of an ’80s slasher queen (malin Åkerman). embarrassed that her late mum played a dim victim (“the shy girl with a clipboard and a guitar”) in her most famous movie, after a freak occurrence at a screening she finds herself transported into it as the bodycount rises. Faced with the masked killer, she’s tasked with saving mom by messing with the film’s plot — which plays out in wickedly funny, often delightful ways. Gas-s-s-s — Or — It Became Necessary To Destroy The World In Order To Save It this 1970 hippie apocalypse comedy from roger Corman offers freewheeling radicalism and good-looking dropouts cruising gorgeous deserts in cool, tricked-out…

• IllustratIon: Peter straIn “This is a cyclical journey, bathed in heartache.” The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp out NOW / Cert. U MAN O’ WAR WINSTON CHURCHILL’S SECRET MEMO was handwritten. And he was livid: “Pray propose to me the measures necessary to stop this foolish production.” To be fair, with World War II in the balance, the leader of the free world had a lot on his mind in August 1942. The last thing he needed was a pair of upstart filmmakers proposing some satire detrimental to the morale of his British army. To his mind, The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp was a matter of life and death. Democracy being democracy, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (hence forward P&P) carried on, using borrowed military uniforms…

Singalongs 1 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen Wayne’s World 2 Tiny Dancer Elton John Almost Famous 3 Wise Up Aimee Mann Magnolia 4 I Say A Little Prayer Dionne Warwick My Best Friend’s Wedding 5 Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond Beautiful Girls 6 Hold On Wilson Phillips Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies 7 My Sharona The Knack Reality Bites 8 The Age Of Aquarius The 5th Dimension The 40 Year-Old Virgin 9 Respect Aretha Franklin Mystic Pizza 10 You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ The Righteous Brother Top Gun 11 Sweet Child O’ Mine Guns N’ Roses Step Brothers 12 Shout The Isley Brothers Animal House TO LISTEN TO THE ABOVE, SEARCH ÔEMPIRE MAGAZINE’ ON SPOTIFY.…

“WHAT?? UNLIKE THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD, I’M NOT A HUGE FAN OF GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. BUT IF YOU’RE GOING TO PUT MY MAN KURT IN THE MIX, I AM SUDDENLY ON BOARD.” KATE NERONE, FACEBOOK BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS so, as cinema chains draw screenings of The Force Awakens to a close after almost three months (during which time I saw the film eight times, twice taking my two children), disney yesterday announced the blu-ray release date. however, such news has received mixed emotions in our household: while the blu-ray will be released on april 18, no 3d edition will be available until “later this year”. this smacks of shameful tactics to force (no pun intended) fans of home 3d entertainment into a double-dip, a tactic befitting…

AT LAST — AFTER years trudging through development hell, Stephen King’s magnum opus, The Dark Tower, is heading to the big screen. So, what is it? Who’s in it? Why should you care? Here’s the Empire lowdown. 1 While King is best known for his horror work, this is a fantasy epic that spans different timelines and dimensions, inspired by an unlikely combination of Robert Browning’s poem, Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came, The Lord Of The Rings, and the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone. 2 It tells the tale of Roland Deschain, a gunslinger who comes from a version of Earth called Mid-World. For reasons far too complex to go into here, Roland’s obsessed with making it to the Dark Tower, the nexus of all existence, and demanding…

Unmissable excellent Good Poor traGic Batman v Superman: dawn of Justice oUt NOW / cert. 12A / 151 MINS. DIRECTOR Zack snyder CAST ben affleck, Henry cavill, Jesse eisenberg, Gal Gadot, Jeremy irons, amy adams, Holly Hunter, laurence Fishburne PLOT In the wake of Zod’s assault on Metropolis, Superman (Cavill) is eyed by many with suspicion, not least Lex Luthor (Eisenberg) and Bruce Wayne (Affleck). Both formulate schemes that could see the alien destroyed for good. IN THE LEGO MOVIE, Will Arnett’s Batman sang an ode to being glum in Gotham, which included the lyrics, “Darkness! No parents! Continued darkness! More darkness, get it?” But even he’s out-moodied by the iteration in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice. For those who thought Man Of Steel was too gloomy and navel-gazing,…

Most actors, when they get cast in a comic-book movie, spend weeks — months, even — pulling out all the stops in training, honing their bodies so they can perfectly recreate their character’s signature combat move. That wasn’t quite the case for Tye Sheridan. As Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, whose mutant power is shooting beams from his eyes, “I basically have to take my glasses off,” he laughs. “And that’s it. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to handle it.” Of course, there’s more to playing Cyclops than meets the energy-blasting eye. Though we encounter him as a troubled teenager, brought to Charles Xavier by his big brother Alex (Lucas Till), Scott will become the X-Men’s leader, Jean Grey’s beloved and — as Wolverine remarked of…

When we first meet Alexandra Shipp’s Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse, she will not be the cool, collected stateswoman played by Halle Berry across four previous X-movies. Here, she’s a young orphan, using her wiles and weather witch abilities to survive on the streets of Cairo. In fact, Ororo Munroe isn’t even an X-Man at first — she operates firmly on the other side of the law. So when Apocalypse shows up, offering her a chance to become the first of his Four Horsemen, she’s in. “My take on Storm is coming from a completely emotional state,” says Shipp, “when you’re 18 and just settling into your hormones. When Apocalypse says, ‘I am what you are looking for. You will be the goddess you deserve to be,’ that clicks for her.”…

1 STORM the 1983 mohawkmakeover look was easily the weather witch’s coolest. 2 CYCLOPS Eeyeballs that laser out deadly force-blasts? if looks could kill... 3 TOAD a tongue that stretches up to 13 feet? if licks could kill... 4 HAVOK Cyclops’ big brother can do plasma blasts from his chest, making him the only mutant who can nuke you with his nipples. 5 COLOSSUS the metallic russian strongman’s burnished biceps should be kept well-oiled. 6 WOLVERINE three razor-sharp, adamantium reasons why you should never fist-bump logan. 7 BEAST no X-Men-based freakensteins should be without a splash of blue, so here’s some navy fur, courtesy of dr. Hank McCoy. 8 LADY DEATHSTRIKE super-stabby fingers, as modelled by Kelly Hu in the first X-Men sequel. 9 NIGHTCRAWLER a devilish appendage from the…

GREY SUIT, SHIRT AND TIE BY HARDY AMIES AT MR PORTER. NAVY COAT BY CHESTER BARRIE. GREY ROL NECK BY TOMAS MAIER AT MR PORTER. EVERYBODY REMEMBERS THEIR first time. And Taron Egerton is no different. It was October 8, 2013, when he first walked onto the set of Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service. It was memorable for a few reasons. He wasn’t just popping his cherry as a leading man on the big-budget spy caper — right there on the call sheet alongside venerable acting types like Michael Caine, Samuel L. Jackson and Colin Firth; this was his first time on a film set doing anything. Oh, and Vaughn was also planning to drop him from a 60-foot-high crane. “It was the final part of the descent from…

“And I didn’t even have to take my pants off!” announces Don Cheadle to his team as he emerges, unscathed, from Empire’s photo shoot before settling in for his grilling. We are with the 51 year-old actor — now-writer/director/actor — at The Beverly Hilton hotel, 90210. Later this evening he will be guest of honour at the American Black Film Festival Awards, where he will receive an Excellence In The Arts award from his Iron Man/Avengers co-star Robert Downey Jr.. In a few hours, the hotel will be an opulent, starry red-carpet extravaganza, but at 2pm on a Sunday it looks like a Midlands Conference Centre in the ’80s, a study in the type of beige that Dulux colour charts term ‘Deadening Soullessness’. Happily, Cheadle has life and energy to…

Sunset Song From NOW / Cert. 15 Births, marriages, deaths, war, misery, buckets of rain and Peter mullan’s beard: terence Davies’ adaptation of the classic Lewis Grassic Gibbon novel throws everything it can at its stoic heroine. Agyness Deyn impresses in the weighty lead role, and the grimness of it all is countered by dreamy visuals and a general mood of lyrical wistfulness. NA The Night Before From NOW / Cert. 15 As the pressures of grown-up life start to force three friends apart, they decide to have one final Christmas eve bash. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth rogen and Anthony mackie have bags of chemistry and there’s scene-stealing support from michael Shannon as a high-school pot-dealer, but the plot meanders. HOH The Benefactor From NOW / Cert. 15 richard Gere gives…

HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS There’s no sign of rick moranis in the new Ghostbusters reboot (he declined a cameo role), but moranisheads can still get their fix by revisiting his miniaturisation mega-hit instead. From april 8 EDEN if you’re looking for a movie about the clubbing scene, this French epic can’t be beat.it follows a young DJ, paul (Félix de Givry), across two decades, taking in a Daft punk cameo and a crateload of classic tunes. From april 25 THE OVERNIGHT Somehow, the sight of Jason Schwartzman sporting an enormous prosthetic penis isn’t even the funniest thing in this film. it’s a romcom with gonzo tendencies, as a couple accidentally find themselves swinging. From april 29 UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT: SEASON 2 Tina Fey’s cult-survivor series continues. Fey says this…

Stone Cold 1991 FROM APrIL 18 CERT. 15 Crapnificent action bullshit. An Easter Island statue carved in denim, Brian ‘The Bos’ Bosworth infiltrates a biker gang led by Lance Henriksen. It flopped in 1991, but an upgrade’s overdue. Watching Stone Cold is like inhaling Lynx Uzi: an almighty belch of fuming machismo and preposterous violence. Truly bad movies are boring: this is geni-arse. Cry “Logic’s for pussies!” and dive in. Dragnet 1987 FROM nOW CERT. PG There’s never been a better showcase for Dan Aykroyd’s rat-a-tat motormouth than this curio. Sporting a buzz cut and a bad suit as stick-up-his-arse cop Joe Friday, he spends 80 minutes busting balls, often those of partner Pep Streebek (Tom Hanks). It’s hugely silly — there are goat-headed cultists, a giant snake and a…

The Art Of Zootropolis Author JESSICA JULIUS / out MARCH 8 Disney’s concept-art books are rarely less than an embarrassment of riches, and this immaculately assembled effort is no exception. over a four-year genesis, we see Zootropolis evolve from a 1960s spy caper to a fully realised mammalian city, a “meticulously designed chaos”, accommodating mice and giraffes alike. the team’s attention-to-detail — researching different types of fur took the best part of a year — is astonishing; the artwork a sumptuous, radiant treat. JNU James Bond: The Secret History Author SEAN EGAN / OUT NOW › Do we really need another 007 book? Not if this trudge through the history of Ian Fleming and Eon’s spy is anything to go by. New interviews with roger Moore and Martin Campbell add…