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No./1 Meet the mother of all action movies • Karen Gillan and Lena Headey unite for some high-octane mother-daughter family feuding in GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE

No./2 How Chris Rock restored Saw’s edge • After years of diminishing returns, the horror franchise finds an unlikely saviour

No./3 The British filmmaker who blurs the lines • With her fourth film, director Clio Barnard is again blending fiction and documentary with unique results

No./4 ADOPTIVE FATHERS • This year, it’s all about gritty old men becoming accidental father figures

No./5 The unstoppable Scorsese • The pandemic hasn’t narrowed the ambition of MARTIN SCORSESE, as shown by his next project

No./6 WHAT IS DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY TRAIN? • Everything you need to know about the record-breaking Japanese anime film

No./7 THE COMFORT ZONE DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS • Steve Martin hamming it up as ‘Ruprecht’ is the latest pick-me-up movie we’re celebrating

The Falcon And The Winter Soldier/Loki • Unfiltered, uncensored, uncompromising trailer reactions from team EMPIRE

No./8 Has next year’s Wolf Of Wall Street already been found? • How The Black List, an annual selection of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays, is now a bigger kingmaker than ever

THE BEST OF THE BLACK LIST • Success stories from previous years

No./9 The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard • [FIRST LOOK] The Ryan Reynolds/Samuel L. Jackson action franchise is back, this time with added Salma Hayek

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

No./10 The indie drama that could make history • How the Sundance hit MINARI continues a significant turning point for Asian-American representation in film

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No./11 A ’90s thriller comes of age • After three decades in limbo, serial-killer drama The Little Things finally finds relevance, and a prestigious cast to boot

No./12 Meet the new prince of Zamunda • Comedian Jermaine Fowler on playing Eddie Murphy’s son in COMING 2 AMERICA

No./13 “It felt like a wonderful ‘fuck you’ to the pandemic” • [THE Q & A] From insane live TV episodes to epic period dramas, KATHERINE WATERSTON has not let 2020 slow her down

No./14 The soundstage soul-barer • How a playwright is using experimental film ear for eye to shine a light on oppression

No./15 GUNDA • VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY ON HIS EXPERIMENTAL, WORDLESS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT A PIG

No./16 Spielberg’s right-hand man makes his passion project • Janusz Kamiński — Steven Spielberg’s cinematographer since Schindler’s List — on American Dream, the film he had to make

Helena Zengel • THE 12-YEAR-OLD GERMAN CO-STARS WITH TOM HANKS IN NEWS OF THE WORLD

No./17 How the Jaws shark was finally laid to rest • The men behind Bruce the shark’s creation, and restoration, on how it finally arrived in a museum

No./18 Inside the year’s most meta film • How upcoming comedydrama BLACK BEAR deconstructs the very process of filmmaking

No./19 THE WATCH LIST • Team Empire (and a famous friend) on film and TV to get excited about

No./20 ALEX WINTER’S MOST EXCELLENT 12 MONTHS • Four high points of a totally...