Join us! At the New Empress Magazine Film Quiz…

by Helen Cox 26 May 2012

Join us at the Shortwave Cinema in Bermondsey tomorrow night for our monthly film quiz! Blade Runner fans can enjoy a whole round dedicated to Ridley Scott’s classic and alongside our picture rounds and scene reenactment rounds we also have a soundtrack round in which all of the songs will come from films that begin [...]

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H. G. Wells’ The Island of Lost Souls on Blu-ray

by Nigel Floyd 25 May 2012

For all their visceral excesses or graphic depictions of torture, most modern horror films have lost the power to shock; much of what was unacceptable to twentieth century censors and audiences is now seen nightly at cinemas. By contrast, as horror expert Kim Newman points out in the beautifully illustrated booklet that accompanies this Eureka! [...]

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Exclusive True Blood season 4 clip released!

by Helen Cox 25 May 2012

Thanks to all of those who entered our True Blood competition recently. The winner has now been informed. If you weren’t lucky enough to win this time, don’t despair! To mark the release of True Blood season 4 on DVD and Blu-ray this week we have an exclusive clip for your viewing pleasure; a little something [...]

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In Review: Barbaric Genius

by Mairéad Roche 25 May 2012

Barbaric Genius is centred on the life of author John Healy. His autobiography The Grass Arena was published in 1988,but after an argument with his publishers, Healy found his book went out of print until Penguin Classics championed his work and republished it in 2008. Director Paul Duane’s documentary includes interviews with Healy from just before the book [...]

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In Review: Men in Black III

by Nigel Floyd 24 May 2012

A decade on from Men in Black II, one of the worst sequels of all time, director Barry Sonnenfeld and Tropic Thunder co-writer Etan Cohen attempt to re-boot Will Smith’s stalled career and the secret-agents-versus-incognito-aliens franchise.

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In Review: What to Expect When You’re Expecting

by Charlotte Stear 22 May 2012

What To Expect When You’re Expecting was off to a bad start when posters appeared with “It’s too late to pull out now” blazoned across it, making it a solid contender for worst tagline ever. It’s understandable that you’d want to erase that from your memory, but halfway through the film it will come back [...]

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Win big screen tickets to Office Space, Four Lions and Labyrinth!

by Helen Cox 21 May 2012

This summer Popup Screens are hosting a series of outdoor screenings across London featuring classic films. As they’re such generous folk, they’ve offered New Empress Magazine readers the chance to win a pair of tickets for their opening weekend. The event takes place on the 6th, 7th and 8th of July in Hammersmith and the [...]

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Our issue 6 front cover unveiled…

by Helen Cox 21 May 2012

Anyone who subscribes to our print magazine will already have received an email last week unveiling the front cover above. This is what issue 6 will look like! As it’s a B-Movie Special we will be looking at all manner of B-Movie classics including The Wasp Woman, Kingdom of the Spiders and Hatchet for the [...]

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In Review: Top Cat

by Helen Cox 19 May 2012

The much-revered Hanna-Barbera cartoon Top Cat [originally aired between 1961 and 1962] gets a 21st century 3D makeover in this Mexican-made feature length outing. Our feline hero of old finds himself sent to Dog Jail [there's no room in Cat Jail] when he is framed for a crime he didn’t commit by Manhattan’s newly appointed [...]

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In Review: Tambien La Lluvia [Even the Rain]

by Rob Keeling 18 May 2012

The award winning Spanish actress and director of Take My Eyes, Icíar Bollaín, has made an emotional and insightful film with Even the Rain , which touches on modern day environmental concerns of Bolivian Indians as well as looking at the poignant historical scars left by the Spanish Conquistadors as they swept across Latin America [...]

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In Review: 2 Days in New York

by Mairéad Roche 18 May 2012

As a means to explain the background to 2 Days in New York, Julie Delphy’s co-written and directed follow on from her 2007 film 2 Days in Paris, Delphy’s character Marion puts on a hand puppet show for her son Lulu. Marion is no longer with her son’s father: Jack. Whether or not we have saw [...]

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