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In Review: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

by Mairéad Roche 30 April 2012

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai is set in Edo, now known as Tokyo, during the peaceful late-1600s when the samurai class are no longer required by masters of great Japanese houses. Many young samurai are a part of a warrior class who have not known war but rigidly stick to the samurai code. Wishing for [...]

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Issue 5 is here

by Helen Cox 29 March 2012

  Issue 5 has now been dispatched to our subscribers and buyers. This issue is our Silent Film Special and within its pages you will find articles on: Who Invented Cinema, The Bluffer’s Guide to Silent Film, Silent Hitchcock: The Voiceless Origins of a Visual Master, The Silent Stories of a host of early film icons, [...]

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4D: Here’s the bottom line

by Helen Cox 11 March 2012

Cineworld has recently invested in a line of D-Box seats that vibrate at pivotal points of effects-driven films. According to a Guardian report last Friday the seats were piloted in Glasgow, the UK’s most-patronised Cineworld, where 35 seats have been fitted. Inevitably, the juddering seats have been dubbed “4D” and if that sounds familiar it’s [...]

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Our First Digi-Issue Launches Today: Minema Edition 4.1

by Helen Cox 29 February 2012

New Empress Magazine’s Minema titles are a mini-digi-dose of film commentary, flashbacks and review.

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The New Empress Magazine Year Book 2011: Available for Order

by Helen Cox 22 November 2011

What has 2011 in film meant to you? The year of the sequel? The year of the documentary? The year when Michael Bay really proved his worth as a director…? Maybe that will be 2012. To celebrate, commemorate and, admittedly in some respects, commiserate the year that has been 2011 we present to you our [...]

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Why I Hate Film #4: Other People

by Adam Glasspool 17 October 2011

By Adam Glasspool It may surprise some of you to read that I’ve never murdered anybody.  I may come across in these articles as frustrated and angry, and I am, but I’ve never actually pulled a Charles Bronson on the people who have wronged me.

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Silent Screenings in Review: Pandora’s Box (1929)

by Joanna Richardson 21 September 2011

By Joanna Richardson The dark, low-lit theatre of the BFI is deliciously decadent in a fresh, contemporary way. Luxurious soft red velvet fold-down seats bear their number in embroidered gold; the walls fade unnoticeably and humbly dissolve around the red, regal, curtained screen.

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Slow-Cooked Sequels: Does money never sleep?

by Nicky Branagh 14 September 2011

By Nicky Branagh Have you noticed that delayed sequels have been particularly prevalent at the local multiplexes over the last few years? Long-awaited film follow-ups are nothing particularly new; the 8os saw just such a trend:  consider the likes of Psycho II (1983), appearing 23 years after Hitchcock’s classic and Scorcese’s The Color of Money (1986), [...]

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