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THE VIEWING GUIDE
Everyone’s favourite movie about a toilet
candle, John Wick: Chapter 2.94
GET OUT
We peel back the layers of the year’s best
horror with the appealing director, Jordan Peele.104
THE GRADUATE
Producer Larry Turman remembers a
classic on its 50th anniversary. Top of the class!114
CLASSIC SCENE
You’re gonna walk out on me? You don’t
walk out on me. I walk out on you!10
AMERICAN ASSASSIN
Not a movie about long walks on the beach.13
HAN SOLO
Ron Howard steps in to save the Untitled
Han Solo Movie? Never tell him the odds.14
B L AC K PA N T H E R
Like Sex Panther, Black Panther works 60
per cent of the time, every time.16
THE GRILL
We grill Brendan Gleeson. Gleeful.24
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
Apes! Together! Entertaining?26
A GHOST STORY
Boo, or boo-yoot-iful?29
ALI’S WEDDING
It’s only the best Aussie comedy since
The Castle, that’s all.31
THE LOST CITY OF Z
Seriously, how do you lose a whole city?!32
BLADE RUNNER 2049
The second movie this year, after Fast &
Furious 8, to feature a character called Deckard.
Which one will be better? It’s a headscratcher.40
LOGAN LUCKY
Four years ago we did an exit interview with
Steven Soderbergh to mark his retirement. Now
he’s back. HR are having conniptions.46
THE DEFENDERS
Marvel’s street-level superheroes get
together for a big old biff. Rejected headline:
Fantastic Flat Back Four.52
THE EMPIRE INTERVIEW
“Bonjour, Luc Besson.” “Bonjour, Empire.
Ça va?” “Ça va bien, merci. Et toi?” “Magnifique!
J’aimerais parler de mon nouveau film, Valerian
And The City Of A Thousand Planets.” “Allez!”58
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF
A THOUSAND PLANETS
Stop, Luc, listen: Besson tells us all about the
amazing creatures who festoon his new movie.64
THE DARK TOWER
Stephen King and co talk about filming the
unfilmable in an article that links directly to the
It feature in a future issue.70
THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD
Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson team
up for laughs, thrills and several dozen swears.76
CON AIR
Beautiful? Sunsets are beautiful. Newborn
babies are beautiful. This feature celebrating
20 years of the demented action classic? This
is fucking spectacular.84
GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB
Famous types name their least-favourite
jobs. Tim Burton didn’t say Dark Shadows. Huh.4 AUGUST 2017