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No./1 “I found a voice inside me that had too long been silent” • Writing exclusively for Empire, Kenneth Branagh shares his experience of returning to his childhood for BELFAST, his most personal film
No./2 Cinema’s strangest family just got a little bigger • Ivan Reitman tells us how he cast the third star of Twins sequel TRIPLETS: Tracy Morgan
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No./3 The Canary sings again! • Five things we want to see in the just-announced Black Canary spin-off movie
No./4 2021: the year of the musical • From In The Heights and West Side Story to Dear Evan Hansen and Annette, we’re in the middle of a movie-musical revival. The people behind them explain why
BLACK IN FOCUS • AMON WARMANN chews over the main moment in Black film and TV this month
The Matrix Resurrections • Unfiltered, uncensored, uncompromising trailer reactions from team EMPIRE
No./5 CLUBBING, LYNCH STYLE • DAVID LYNCH HAS JUST OPENED AN IBIZA HOTSPOT, EL SILENCIO. HERE ARE SOME MODIFICATIONS WE SUGGEST
No./6 Candyman’s bittersweet breakthrough • Nia DaCosta’s box-office hit is a milestone for Black female directors — but it’s one that is long overdue
No./7 The story that Rebecca Hall had to tell • The actor explains how her family history led to her spending 15 years on her directorial debut, Passing
No./8 Why Nolan is going nuclear • Christopher Nolan’s next movie is about the father of the atomic bomb. Here’s why it’s a perfect fit for his sensibilities
No./9 GIANT TENTACLES • They’re slippery, they’re scary. Whatever you do — do not anger these slimy enemies
No./10 Confusing superhero multiverses — explained • Empire’s Chris Hewitt attempts to answer the big questions behind Marvel and DC’s upcoming blockbusters
No./11 How Colombia inspired Disney to break its own rules • Three ways the South American country shook things up for new animation Encanto
No./12 The horror team behind Host hit the road • Rob Savage and crew unleash a new kind of found- footage nightmare in car-based thriller DASHCAM
No./13 NEXT IN THE SERIES • You fell in love with that incredible new TV show. And then it ended! Don’t despair — Boyd Hilton recommends the sibling shows to watch next
No./14 JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO: THE KING OF COOL • [IN MEMORIAM] Four legendary moments from the French actor, who died aged 88
No./15 “I really feel like I’ve been there and back again, again!” • [THE Q&A] ANDY SERKIS makes his comic-book-movie directing debut with Venom: Let There Be Carnage — but Middle-earth, it seems, is never too far away
No./16 Welcome to the anti-Entourage • Jim Cummings takes a scalpel to Hollywood in The Beta Test
No./17 CRYPTOZOO • A PSYCHEDELIC ANIMATION SET IN A HIPPY COMMUNE OF MYTHICAL CREATURES
No./18 Farewell to a small-screen titan • [IN MEMORIAM] Remembering the late MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS with his five most iconic television performances
No./19 Meet the BFG (the Bad Fumbly Golfer) • Mark Rylance on playing the world’s worst club-swinger in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN
No./20 The best of the rest of the fest • Team Empire highlight the buzziest offerings at this year’s BFI London Film Festival
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