Issue February 2019 - Empire (2024)

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IN THIS ISSUETHIS MONTH AT EMPIRETHIS IS THE final issue of Empire that will fall onto doormats and land on shelves this year. And the final days of any year are best spent reflecting on what went by, what we’ve learned and, in the case of this year, thanking God that the fire-in-a-bin we called 2018 is over. Frankly, without cinema we’d have been lost. The communal, immersive experience of sitting, phone (and political bombshells)-free in a dark room while the screen before you fills. I, for one, have never been more in need of it.It’s also customary to look ahead to what the next 12 months holds, and it’s fair to say the horizon glints with great promise. Avengers: Endgame, The Irishman, Hellboy, Episode IX. Not to mention all the gems that will arrive…1 min

IN THIS ISSUETHIS MONTH AT EMPIREIllustration: David Mahoney THIS IS THE final issue of Empire that will fall onto doormats and land on shelves this year. And the final days of any year are best spent reflecting on what went by, what we’ve learned and, in the case of this year, thanking God that the fire-in-a-bin we called 2018 is over. Frankly, without cinema we’d have been lost. The communal, immersive experience of sitting, phone (and political bombshells)-free in a dark room while the screen before you fills. I, for one, have never been more in need of it. It’s also customary to look ahead to what the next 12 months holds, and it’s fair to say the horizon glints with great promise. Avengers: Endgame, The Irishman, Hellboy, Episode IX. Not to mention all the…1 min

IN THIS ISSUETALK TO USNOW I HAVE AN ARGUMENT WINNER, HO-HO-HOI have never understood why there is even a debate needed as to whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Apart from Bruce Willis killing the bad guys with a traditional turkey dinner or torturing Alan Rickman by making him smell his Brussels sprout-flavoured farts, I don’t know how they can make it any more Christmassy! OWEN HOLLIFIELD, CAERPHILLYConsider the annual ‘Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie?’ debate well and truly settled. Until next Christmas.Empire’s star letter wins a Picturehouse Membership, plus one for a friend! Valid for one year at 23 Picturehouse Cinemas across the UK, including the flagship Picturehouse Central in London’s West End, each membership comes pre-loaded with four free tickets, and gets you access to priority booking and exclusive discounts…2 min

PRE.VIEWThe new Black“A FOURTH FILM is never easy,” admits producer Walter Parkes. In the late ’90s, Parkes, along with his partner Laurie MacDonald, bought the film rights to a then obscure, out-of-print comic-book series about exquisitely well-dressed secret agents working for an extraterrestrial police force. Three Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones-starring Men In Black films later, the franchise’s future seemed unclear; at one point, a perplexing crossover with 21 Jump Street was proposed. “We gave it a shot,” says Parkes of the abandoned project. “It turned out to be an impossible match-up.”So they went back to the intergalactic drawing board, starting afresh with a spin-off, and began hunting for a new duo to slip into those iconic black-and-white suits. “These are buddy comedies,” explains Parkes. “The rapport and energy and comic timing of…2 min

IN THIS ISSUETALK TO USNOW I HAVE AN ARGUMENT WINNER, HO-HO-HO I have never understood why there is even a debate needed as to whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Apart from Bruce Willis killing the bad guys with a traditional turkey dinner or torturing Alan Rickman by making him smell his Brussels sprout-flavoured farts, I don’t know how they can make it any more Christmassy! OWEN HOLLIFIELD, CAERPHILLY Consider the annual ‘Is Die Hard A Christmas Movie?’ debate well and truly settled. Until next Christmas. Empire’s star letter wins a Picturehouse Membership, plus one for a friend! Valid for one year at 23 Picturehouse Cinemas across the UK, including the flagship Picturehouse Central in London’s West End, each membership comes pre-loaded with four free tickets, and gets you access to priority booking…2 min

PRE.VIEWThe other side of Bonnie and ClydeIT’S THE REAL STORYFor many people, Arthur Penn’s classic 1967 film Bonnie And Clyde, with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the impossibly beautiful outlaws, is the definitive take on the story. But what about the people who caught them? The Highwaymen focuses on Frank Hamer, the Texas Ranger who tracked and ultimately killed the Barrow Gang; the film’s director, John Lee Hanco*ck, considers it “a different lens” from the Penn movie, which depicted Hamer as something of a bumbling idiot. (Hamer’s widow would later sue the studio for defamation, settling out of court.) The Highwaymen, Hanco*ck hopes, is something of a cinematic redemption. “This is Frank Hamer, front and centre,” he says. “I’m from Texas originally. The lore of the Texas Rangers is huge there. And he’s probably the…2 min

Issue February 2019 - Empire (2024)

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