Are you going to bark all day, little doggie, or are you going to bite? We here at Empire have chosen to bite: this month, we're celebrating 25 years of Reservoir Dogs with a giant retrospective feature. That's just the tip of a magazine-shaped iceberg, of course – here's a selection of some of the highlights from issue 343 of the world's biggest movie magazine. Subscribe to Empire here{
Reservoir Dogs
Time to ponder again the true meaning of Madonna's Like A Virgin, as we devote 16 pages to Quentin Tarantino's iconic cult classic – including a rare photo gallery, a long interview with Mr Blonde himself Michael Madsen, and an oral history from the people who made it. Let's go to work.
Bright
A gritty Will Smith crime drama set in a Tolkien-esque LA? Empire travels to the fantasy set of Netflix's biggest gamble yet to see if David Ayer's latest led to any orc-ward encounters.
Steve Bannon
Before he became the architect behind President Donald Trump, right-wing strategist Steve Bannon enjoyed a moderately successful career in Hollywood. This is that insane true story.
Twin Peaks
Now that the dust has settled on the third season of David Lynch's bonkers surrealist TV show, we speak to star Kyle Machlachan and co-creator Mark Frost on what, exactly, it all meant, from the glass box to the electric tree to the demonic otherworldly woodsman played by an Abraham Lincoln impersonator.
Suburbicon
When is a Coen brothers movie not a Coen brothers movie? When it's a Coen brothers script, unearthed from the archives and directed by George Clooney, that's when. The actor-director speaks to Empire about bringing a legendary Coen script back to life – and back to the 1950s.
Dale Dye
For thirty years, military veteran Captain Dale Dye has been working behind-the-scenes (and occasionally in-front-of-the-scenes), training the biggest names in Hollywood to go to war. His next boot camp victim: one plucky Empire journalist.
The Empire Interview: Jamie Bell
The boy once known as Billy Elliott is all grown up, and now he's returning to his homeland. For our long interview this month, we speak to Jamie Bell about Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, his career highs, and one notable low.
Pre.View
This month's news section is, as ever, bursting at the seams with future film exclusives, including word from Pacific Rim: Uprising, Downsizing, and Spielberg's The Post, to name but three.
On.Screen
Empire's critical gaze this month lands on a diverse clutch of films, TV shows and games, including Thor: Ragnarok, Blade Runner 2049, The Punisher, and Super Mario Odyssey.
Re.View
In the back section this month, we enlist Edgar Wright for a viewing guide of Baby Driver; speak to Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon about their coma-comedy The Big Sick; and mark the 30th anniversary of Hellraiser by chatting to Clive Barker.
For that, and so much more, be sure to pick up a copy of the December 2017 issue of Empire, on sale from Thursday 2 November. Want to get your copy days before anyone else? Subscribe to Empire here{