In Review: Battle Los Angeles

by Mike Richardson 23 March 2011

By Mike Richardson There plenty of films out there based on existing video games but Battle: Los Angeles (or Battle LA if you haven’t got the time for full place names) plays out more like a film inspired by a video game yet to come into being.

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The Ultimate 80s T Shirt Giveaway!

by Helen Cox 22 March 2011

What better way is there of declaring your allegiance to film geekery than sporting a T Shirt that only you and a select few can appreciate? Er, like none! That’s why the decent fellows at Last Exit To Nowhere have provided us with two high quality T Shirts to give away out of the goodness of their geeky little hearts.

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In Review: Troll 2 / Best Worst Movie

by Helen Cox 21 March 2011

By Helen Cox Last month I was inducted into a cult. A cult of green goop and erotic corn on the cob. A cult of frighteningly cheerful grandfathers, spontaneously dancing sisters and mothers who appear, by that wild look in their eye, to be high as a kite: the cult of Troll 2.

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In Review: The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

by Mike Richardson 18 March 2011

By Mike Richardson Is the new Matt Damon vehicle The Adjustment Bureau as farcical as its title? Mike Richardson reports… It’s a lazy reviewer who likens a film to two other films, and it’s an even lazier advertiser who does the same. With The Adjustment Bureau (aka “Bourne meets Inception”) the sin of laziness is […]

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In Focus: TAPS (1981)

by Austin Raywood 13 March 2011

By Austin Raywood In 1981 Timothy Hutton received the academy award for best supporting actor for his role in 1980’s Ordinary People. Although Ordinary People (a film now broadly forgotten) has been maligned for years after winning best picture over the, arguably, more relevant Raging Bull (1980), no critic has put down Hutton’s impeccable performance. […]

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In Focus: Four Lions (2010)

by Mike Richardson 11 March 2011

By Mike Richardson Last year enfant-terrible of British TV, Chris Morris produced a comedy about Doncaster-based suicide bombers. It was one of the funniest, and also one of the best, films I saw in 2010.  If you don’t recognise his name you must have been boycotting  news bulletins during the Brass Eye Series (1997) in […]

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Unveiled: The Final Front Cover for Issue One

by Helen Cox 10 March 2011

Grace Kelly is the first face to er…grace the front cover of New Empress Magazine.

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Dear Auntie Em: My Name is Bond, James Bond…

by Helen Cox 5 March 2011

Dear Auntie Em, My name is Bond, James Bond and I’m having problems at work. I’ve always devoted myself to the job, which means I’ve been unable to settle down and build a life. Instead I’m jet-setting to exotic locations all over the globe, and having meaningless sex with foreign women. Oh I know it […]

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Film Confessionals: Why I Love Independence Day

by Rob Keeling 2 March 2011

Whether we like it or not, there are some films that we are all slightly ashamed of admitting we love. These films are, often, not the most thought-provoking or meaningful of movies, but there’s just something about them that keeps us going back for more.

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And the Academy Award goes to…

by Helen Cox 28 February 2011

A full list of Academy Award winners for 2011 can be found here. Although every other website in the cyberverse is commenting on how The King’s Speech swept up Inception didn’t do too badly for itself either.  It collected awards for sound, effects and cinematography.

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In Focus: Come and See (1985)

by Susie Kahlich 27 February 2011

By Susie Kahlich How do you recognize perfection? When talking about film, it should be obvious, right?  Multi-dimensional characters, clever but realistic dialogue, a plot that both surprises and makes sense, subplots that engage and tie up loose ends.  In short, perfection in film is the power to draw the viewer into and make them […]

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