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THIS MONTH • EWHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO THIS MONTH

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No./1 Viola Davis prepares for battle

No./2 Is this Cannes’ buzziest year yet?

No./3 NEXT IN THE SERIES • You fell in love with that incredible new TV show. And then it ended! Don’t despair — Boyd Hilton recommends the sibling shows to watch next

No./4 What if Christopher Nolan made Ace Ventura 3? • Jim Carrey says that he’d only reprise his famous role upon the director’s request. Here’s what their film could involve

No./5 A movie maverick’s Blonde ambition • The filmmaker pulls back the curtain on his bold Marilyn Monroe movie

No./6 Daisy Edgar-Jones is fishing for a challenge

No./7 The Sex Pistols show that Danny Boyle had to make

No./8 The battle to save the romcom

No./ 9 Soundtracking a sequel that doesn’t exist

No./10 “I’d already decided this moment would never happen”

No./12 BIG- SCREEN BOBS • Move over, De Niro. Take a hike, Mr Redford. There’s a new wave of Bobs taking over Hollywood

No./11 Playing Batman without a Batsuit • Winston Duke on voicing the Dark Knight for podcast series Batman Unburied

No./14 A BRIEF HISTORY OF INANIMATE OBJECTS IN CINEMA • As Marcel The Shell With Shoes On heads for the big screen, we salute unusual items that found a life of their own

No./13 The new masters of the murder mystery

No./15 How to build a criminal underworld

No./16 GETTING UNDER THE SKIN OF VECNA • WE BREAK DOWN THE BIG THEORIES AROUND STRANGER THINGS’ ELUSIVE NEW BADDIE

Crimes Of The Future

No./17 What is the perfect length for a movie? • As Netflix introduces a category spotlighting films under 100 minutes, we revisit an age-old debate

No./18 Raiders of the lost archives • Empire salutes the family bringing forgotten cinematic treasures to the small screen on TALKING PICTURES TV

No./19 The film reviving a forgotten language • How The Quiet Girl —a film almost entirely in Irish — is breaking new (or rather old) linguistic ground

No./ 20 How to Wachowskify your home • Want to give your living room a mind-bending sci-fi makeover? Bid on these items from the Wachowskis’ auction

PINT OF MILK

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

SWAN SONG

ALL MY FRIENDS HATE ME

VORTEX

DASHCAM

BENEDICTION

THE INNOCENTS

BERGMAN ISLAND

PISTOL

TOKYO VICE

SHINING GIRLS

OZARK: SEASON 4 PART 2

THE SUMMER BLOCK BUSTER PREVIEW • READY FOR AN INCREDIBLE FEW MONTHS OF BIG AND SMALL-SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT? HERE’S EMPIRE’S GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST FILMS AND TV SHOWS ON THE WAY

WHATEVER IT TAKES • WITH THEIR CAT-AND-MOUSE ACTION SPECTACULAR THE GRAY MAN, THE RUSSO BROTHERS — DIRECTORS OF AVENGERS: ENDGAME — ARE GOING FOR BROKE. AGAIN. WE TALK TO THEM, STARS RYAN GOSLING AND CHRIS EVANS AND MORE ABOUT A HUGE NEW SPY SAGA

THE MIGHTY THORS • AFTER THE ALL-OUT INSANITY OF THOR: RAGNAROK, DIRECTOR TAIKA WAITITI TELLS US THAT THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER IS AN UNABASHED ROMANCE, STARRING THOR, AND, ERM… THOR?

GOING LOCO • As a hitman in the fast-moving action extravaganza, star Brian Tyree Henry is very much up for a fight

THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE • SURRENDER! TOY STORY’S EVIL EMPEROR ZURG IS BACK — BUT WITH A FORMIDABLE MAKEOVER. ACTOR...