He knows exactly what he's doing.

One reunion to rule them all. The Lord Of The Rings fellowship celebrates 25 years of cinema’s greatest fantasy saga in Empire’s world-exclusive reunion issue – featuring brand-new interviews, cast photos, and more. On sale Thursday 15 January. READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Tomorrow. 4PM GMT.

Here is the main feature from Issue 26, an oral history of the print magazine in the 21st century. Featuring interviews with Alex Bilmes, Ian Hislop, Jo Ellison, Graydon Carter, Andrew Neil, Richard Benson, Kate Spicer, Chris Floyd and @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social. www.the-fence.com/rumours-of-o...

Absolutely devastated by the news about Rob Reiner. By all accounts a good man, and an incredible director. I wouldn't be who I am without his run of '80s classics - and his wife Michelle shaped those because their love story fundamentally changed When Harry Met Sally, for the better.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

The journey begins… Christopher Nolan’s #TheOdyssey is revealed on Empire’s world-exclusive cover – the first look and first word on an epic like no other. On sale Thursday 20th November. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Tomorrow, 4pm.

Wrote a little bit about my horrible habit of abandoning books... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have written a lot of negative reviews in my time but I don't think I will ever write a review as quietly damning as Charli xcx's Letterboxd review of A Complete Unknown

This is a big one 🔥 For our new issue I got to head to New Zealand to shadow James Cameron for 2 days, as he perfects Avatar: Fire And Ash. Eyeball-searing subs-cover art by Fire And Ash concept artist Dylan Cole. On sale Thursday. Available to order online from Monday. Subs copies dropping soon!

Go beyond The Grid 🚨 Empire’s world-exclusive Tron: Ares issue revs up – going on set with the cast and crew bringing Light Cycles, identity discs and rogue AIs into the real world. On sale Thurs 3 July. READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Pulitzer for John for this.

I had a lot of fun writing this month's Fantastic Four cover feature. Ralph Ineson has finally settled the question of who is more evil: Galactus or Finchy from The Office.

EXCLUSIVE 4️⃣ #TheFantasticFour: First Steps will bring “classic Fantastic Four energy” to the MCU, says Kevin Feige. “No four characters are more important for the history of Marvel,” he tells Empire. “I really wanted to do them justice.” READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

This month's subscriber cover is a dazzling tease of Galactus and the Silver Surfer, on their way to deliver seriously bad news to our heroes. READ MORE: empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Marvel’s First Family has arrived 🚀 Empire’s world-exclusive #TheFantasticFour: First Steps issue goes on set with Pedro Pascal, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vanessa Kirby and Joseph Quinn for their groovy, space-age MCU adventure. Out Thursday 5 June. READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Very sad to learn that Barry McIlheney, Empire’s visionary original editor, has passed away. Sharp, funny, and bold, in 1989 he and his team laid down the tone and philosophy of the magazine, something we still strive to follow today. Here’s a piece he wrote for our 400th issue a few years back.

getting a bit tiring to think "ah yay, the worst people you know are having a great day" several times a week, every single week

Tomorrow.

RIP Val Kilmer

FLOW is finally out in UK cinemas. A hugely-deserving Oscar-winner and one of the best films you'll see this year, animated or otherwise. My review:

"No genuinely independently-made film has ever triumphed in the Best Animated Feature category — until now." The success of Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis' #Flow at last night's Oscars "is a sea-change of a win," writes @thenuge.bsky.social. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...

Tried to find the words about The Royal Tenenbaums, Gene Hackman's almost-final role: a gorgeous film which carries an extra resonance today.

oh no

Losing the PCC would be a crime against culture. Sign the petition!

We met the beaver from Hundreds Of Beavers!

The eldest boy of our hearts

If the amazing Silo S2 finale exploded your brain, this is the pod for you. Me, James and @thenuge.bsky.social trying to put all the pieces together 🧩

Trump: "Did anyone see Silence of the Lambs? Great movie, lovely movie."

I wrote some words about David Lynch. www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

RIP to a legend

Nobody else like him. A singular artist. What a profound loss. Fuck

“I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we'll all meet again, like the song says. It's sad but it's not devastating if you think like that... It's a continuum, and we're all going to be fine at the end of the story.” — David Lynch

My review of Maria — a film which features, I would say, the best performance of Angelina Jolie's career www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

The rage has only just begun ☣️ Danny Boyle is back with #28YearsLater – unleashing a new era of the flesh-eating saga. Empire enters the apocalypse with Boyle, Alex Garland, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and more. On sale Thurs 16 January. READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Waking out of my sleep on a sudden, I did with my elbow hit my wife a great blow over her face and nose, which waked her with pain, at which I was sorry, and to sleep again.

Today we celebrate that holiest of occasions, the time that Kevin McCallister’s father learned he spent $967.43 on room service at the Plaza

This needs to happen.

In the shiny new issue of Empire, on sale today: I had many intellectually stimulating conversations with the team behind The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce) about, arguably, 2025's best film. A genuine privilege to write about an amazing piece of art

should be 200 years… not 20.

Fantastic long read on the bizarre and secretive world of the Samuel Smith pub empire. At times it’s like reading about the church of Scientology. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...