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No./1 Inside Guillermo del Toro’s cliche-free film noir • How the director has made the genre his own with starry new thriller NIGHTMARE ALLEY

No./2 The teenagers taking on tennis GOATs • How two newcomers embraced the almighty challenge of playing the Williams sisters in KING RICHARD

No./3 Meet the Hawkeye waiting in the wings • How Hailee Steinfeld took aim as Clint Barton’s protégé in Marvel’s latest TV show

No./4 AVIAN SIDEKICKS • These feathery friends give a whole new meaning to the term ‘wing man’

No./5 An Afghan refugee who went 2D • Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen shares five favourite frames from FLEE, his striking account of one man’s escape from Afghanistan

Rachel Zegler • THE 20-YEAR-OLD MAKES HER MOVIE DEBUT AS MARIA IN STEVEN SPIELBERG’S WEST SIDE STORY

No./6 The Witcher’s toughest hunt yet • How the hit fantasy series’ long-delayed second season really tested Henry Cavill’s mettle

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No./7 Horror that goes straight for the heart • The Scream directors on a love letter to Wes Craven’s original

No./8 A double act for the ages • Joaquin Phoenix and newcomer Woody Norman on sharing the screen in comedy-drama C’MON C’MON

No./9 SLY’S MUST-BUYS • SYLVESTER STALLONE IS FLOGGING OFF HIS ICONIC PROPS AND COSTUMES IN AN AUCTION. WE HIGHLIGHT FIVE

No./10 The ex-porn star you’ll love to hate • The Florida Project director Sean Baker dares us to find the humanity in a scumbag

No./11 “I’ve been preparing for Logan Roy all my life” • BRIAN COX is back spitting insults for the new season of Succession — but a new memoir finds him in a reflective mood

No./12 Something Coen-y this way comes • How The Tragedy Of Macbeth was a Coen/Shakespeare fusion foretold

No./13 THIS MEANS WARLOCK • Four things you need to know about Adam Warlock, the MCU’s newest ultra-powered superhero

No./14 On the road to regeneration • DOCTOR WHO star Jodie Whittaker on the beginning of the end for the 13th Doctor

NO./15 The ensemble cast fit for an apocalypse • Adam McKay on assembling A-listers for end-of-the-world comedy DON’T LOOK UP

NO./16 How I made Home Alone my own • Home Sweet Home Alone star Archie Yates explains how he created his own spin on Kevin McCallister

House Of The Dragon • Unfiltered, uncensored, uncompromising trailer reactions from team EMPIRE

No./17 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./18 AGATHA IS BACK! • With Agatha Harkness getting her own TV spinoff, we consult a crystal ball on how it might look

NO./19 The film about Maradona that’s not about Maradona • THE HAND OF GOD turns an infamous goal into a sweeping, semi-autobiographical love letter to adolescence

No./20 HOW SQUID GAME TOOK OVER THE WORLD • TRACKING THE 13-YEAR JOURNEY FROM LOCAL REJECT TO GLOBAL HIT

BLACK IN FOCUS • AMON WARMANN chews over the main moment in Black film and TV this month

CLASSIC PICK OF THE MONTH • I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016)

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