With a swing of her broadsword and a crack of her Lasso of Truth, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman has stormed onto cover of this month’s Empire magazine with a ferocity that would make certain Batmen or Supermen quiver with fear. Our kick-ass cover is the mere tip of an Amazonian iceberg, of course, with 138 pages of cinematic goodness awaiting within. Here’s a little taster of what to expect from the world’s best-selling film magazine this month.
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Wonder Woman
Diana Prince dominates proceedings this month. Across eight pages, our cover feature delves deep into the 75-year history of the warrior princess and her long and sometimes arduous journey from the comic-book page to the cinema screen. Now the world is ready for you...
Beauty & The Beast
With the "tale as old as time" getting updated for the live-action era, we invite you to "be our guest as we "waltz" through Beauty And The Beast’s classic moments, reinterpreted by Emma Watson and director Bill Condon. Something something "Gaston (reprise)".
Iron Fist
Marvel’s Netflix offering continues to grow. We’ve had a blind lawyer, an alcoholic private detective, and a bulletproof ex-con – now we get a martial-arts rich kid with a magic fist. Danny Rand is set to offer a new dimension to the Marvel Television universe (not to mention a key appetiser to the Defenders) – so we get the lowdown from all involved.
The Empire Interview: Ian McShane
He is Swearengen in Deadwood. He is Blackbeard in Pirates Of The Carribbean. He is Andy Samberg’s hilariously violent stepfather in Hot Rod. He’s Lovejoy, for goodness' sake. For this month’s big interview, we go toe-to-Lancashire-toe with everyone’s favourite hangdog hardman and find out what it’s like to play a figment of Dr. Dre’s imagination.
Ghost In The Shell
Scarlett Johansson has played a medicinally-intelligent superhuman (Lucy) and an artificially-intelligent mobile phone app (Her) – but in Ghost In The Shell, she plays a cyborg with a human soul. Can Hollywood keep the cyberpunk spirit of this anime adaptation alive? We head to Tokyo to investigate.
Pre.view - Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2
This month’s preview section features something good, something bad – or perhaps a bit of both – in our exclusive new look at Marvel’s galactic space romp Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2. Plus, there’s early looks at Alien: Covenant, King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, and Borg/McEnroe, to name but three.
On.Screen – John Wick: Chapter 2
We point our critical gun at John Wick’s perfectly-coiffured head and fire a star-rating at him. Will he survive? (Yes.) Also falling under Empire’s critical glare this month: Patriot’s Day, The Lego Batman Movie. Girls Season 6, and Sniper Elite 4, among many others.
Re.View – Doctor Strange
The good doctor leads up our back section this month as we go trippin’ with Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson for an in-depth viewing guide. Elsewhere, Brian De Palma’s Blow Out gets the Empire Masterpiece treatment; Ursula Andress’ beachside undress in Dr. No gets the Story Of The Shot treatment; and director Edward Zwick gets the Movie Mastermind treatment.
How Green Was My Valley
What's better than the greatest film ever made? According to the Oscar voters of the time, How Green Was My Valley was better than Citizen Kane, in a decision that's come to be ridiculed as one of the Academy's worst snubs. But does it deserve the ridicule? We unwrap a curious slice of Oscar history.
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