Empire

TAKE 20 BLACK LIVES MATTER = 08 Actor-wirter-activist Lena Waithe shares her thoughts on the vital ongoing protests. SAM NELL = 12 The Kiwi legend on the short films he’s made during lockdown. Not one of the them is a remake of Event Horizon. What a waste. TRAILER TALK = 13 Team Empire talks all over the first look at Bill & Ted Face the Music. We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy! Schwing! HOLLYWOOD GOES BACK TO WORK = 14 How productions are resuming during the pandemic. Spoiler: very carefully. RON PERLMAN = 16 The veteran actor is still giving’em hell, boy. PRINT OF MILK = 28 Talking dairy products with Anya Taylor-Joy. FEATURES THE BIG-SCREEN PREVIEW = 55 Masks on, hand sanitiser at the ready. Cinemas are throwing open their doors, so we’re shining a spotlight on the films set to fill them(well, mostly fill them). Featuring: Cary Joji Fukunaga on No Time To Die, Patty Jenkins on Wonder Woman 1984, Edgar Wright on Last Night In Soho, Cate Shortland on Black Widow, plus many, many more. And more new pics than you can shake a golden lasso at. CAROLCO = 80 The incredible inside story of the studio that helped Arnie and Sly bestride the 1980s like two giant clolssuses. Colossi? Clossuses just looks weird. We should probably look it up. Anyway, the point is that Arnie and Sly were massive. Colossus-massive. And Carolco helped them get there. JANELLE MONAE = 86 Not content with dominating the music scene for the last few years, Ms Monae has been low-key conquering movies and television too. Now, with Antebellum, she takes her first lead film role, and Hollywoodm, by the scruff of the neck. THE OMEN = 92 Director Richard Donner and screenwriter David Seltzer on the spooky goings-on behind the scenes of one of the greatest horror movies ever made. MICHAEL BIEHN = 98 An audience with the man who took on the Terminator, went toe-to-toe with a bunch of Aliens, and stared into The Abyss until it stared back at him. Our original plan, to run a bunch of snaps of him on vacation and call it Mr Biehn’s Holiday, was cruelly nixed. Some people don’t recognise genius, that’s the problem here. ON SCREEN DA 5 BLOODS = 30 Spike Lee takes on the Vietnam War movie. Spike wins. THE OLD GUARD = 32 Charlize Theron as an immortal warrior? That one never grows old. SPOILER SECTION = 47 Da 5 Bloods, The King Of Staten Island, The Vast Of Night. REVIEW FEMALE TROUBLE = 104 John Waters on his trash classic. ROCKY RANKING = 112 The life and times of Robert Balboa. DAVID COPPERFILED = 116 Armando Iannucci’s Dickens adaptation.

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