The new issue of Empire is on sale tomorrow. I interviewed Miriam Margolyes for our esteemed 'How Much Is A Pint Of Milk?' questionnaire. I think the word 'riotous' is overused in journalism but, well. Just including our opening exchange here. The rest is just as fruity.

I must say I loved doing this interview with Willem. A great hour a couple of years ago. Nosferatu, the occult, living in a fisherman's cottage, Antichrist, mummified heads, outsiders, Wild At Heart, death... an epic natter.

MidCenturyCinema@midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2w ago

HBD Willem Dafoe!! MCCT5: 5)Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese) 4)Dust of Time (Angelopoulos) 3)Auto Focus (Schrader) 2)Pasolini (Ferarra) 1)Platoon (Stone) More: @kristypuchko.bsky.social: mashable.com/article/will... @mrgodfrey.bsky.social: www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...

In 2024 I interviewed Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, on the phone, about their career. They wouldn't discuss what film was next, but at one point I asked this question about Trojan-horsing ideas. We discovered recently that they exchanged amused looks about that. Anyway: this is a fun answer.

Well I did NOT know Peter Mayhew's grave looked like this. That's how to do it. Coyness be damned. www.findagrave.com/memorial/198...

I watched Robert Eggers' Werwulf trailer, then talked through it with him. Film looks great. Chat was fun.

Robert Eggers explains why he wants you to 'smell the shit' in the Werwulf trailer (Exclusive)

The director of Nosferatu and The Witch is back with a grimy, ghoulish werewolf movie set in 1300s England. Read the interview at Empire.

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Stop-motion cardboard cut-out Sabotage. How great it is to live in a world where someone spends five years making this just for kicks. This made me smile so much.

Stop Motion Sabotage - A Stop Motion Recreation of Beastie Boys "Sabotage" video

YouTube video by Corduroy Frames

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Father's Day today. So here's my cosmic card to my dead dad. Ostensibly regarding death, but very much about life.

Alex Godfrey@mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 9mo ago

When my dad was dying in hospital, and apparently not bothered about it in the slightest, he told me I should write about it. I scoffed at the time. I didn't want to write about that. But after mulling over it for an age, I've just had a week off work, and got it all out there. Allllll of it.

Eddington is one of the most underrated and underseen films of the 21st century... a really funny and unnerving portrait of the absolute state of things. Should have won a whole bunch of Oscars but people just don't know what's good for them.

Joshua Rothkopf@joshuarothkopf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

EDDINGTON is the most blackly funny American satire in a decade. Come hear me speak with Ari Aster after the @amcinematheque.bsky.social Bleak Week screening on Friday night. www.americancinematheque.com/series/ari-a...

Extremely fun - and stimulating (not like that - well, a bit like that, here and there) movie. A love letter not just to a cinema, but a scene, a movement - and also to a London that doesn't quite exist anymore. Viva Scala.

Ali Catterall@alicatterall.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My and Jane's little film SCALA!!! is now FREE to watch for 14 days via this link, thanks to our lovely distributors, the BFI. And it has a terrific intro by Kermode too. player.bfi.org.uk/subscription... But do consider taking out a BFI player subscription too!

What a devastating article.

I deleted a young woman’s Jewish identity from the internet

Politely terrifying emails arriving at Jewish News reveal a dark and sinister truth about modern Britain

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Of all the social platforms, Facebook is the one that has become the most baffling, a swamp of AI-written, AI-illustrated nonsense, an endless load of lawless horseshit that nobody asked for. This, which was spewed into my phone yesterday, is particularly awful. Look at the state of it.

The Independent. Heinous clickbait or heinous error? Headline: Bonnie Tyler dies. Click on the article: "She is now recuperating." Okay.

Tony Stella was an incredible talent. Years ago I commissioned him to make an alt cover for SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, which he did in perfect Tony fashion. RIP

Will Perkins@williamhperkins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just heard the terrible news that Tony Stella passed away. What an incredible talent. What a loss.

Tony Stella was one of the most incredible artists I've ever worked with, and an even better human, full of integrity & passion & life, and it's impossible to process the news that he's gone. It was truly an honor to work with him, every time, and my heart goes out to all his family and friends.

Crushed to read the news that Tony Stella has passed, a truly phenomenal and prolific artist, one of my absolute favorites

Tony Stella was the best. I could barely believe we got him to make art for us at Empire. Here are some of the feature openers he did for us, and a cover. It was a thrill to receive these masterpieces (all magnificently hand-painted), and a joy to see his work on our pages. He was untouchable. RIP.

Cinephilia & Beyond@cinephiliabeyond.org · 3mo ago

Tony Stella, an artist of immense brilliance and prolific output, has passed away. He was one of the greatest artists to ever do it. Rest in peace, Tony.

The original Neighbours painting of Mrs Mangel by Helen Daniels is up for grabs. Proceeds going to the Dementia Australia charity. Currently at over 5k. Genuinely iconic. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40687689...

Many years after falling in love with Valerie Cherish, I finally got to write about her. A gushing ode awaits:

The Comeback: Season 3 review: Lisa Kudrow's satirical comedy goes out guns blazing

Lisa Kudrow returns as Valerie Cherish in the third season of HBO's satirical drama. Read the Empire review.

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I went to see Interstellar at the Royal Albert Hall last weekend, with a live score by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the original soundtrack organist Roger Sayer. It was a profoundly emotional experience, which I've written about here.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Takaichi’s Castle@discographette.online · 4mo ago

congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers

Truly sorry if you're on the W̶i̶r̶e̶Spineless line-up this year and were looking forward to playing but if you don't pull out you are supporting something unequivocally horrendous.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don’t think asking the Home Office to deny West a visa is the right way forward at this stage (bad precedent). Better to have sponsors and artists boycott Wireless so that it can’t happen in this form. The music industry created the problem and the music industry should fix it

A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.

Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

An issue made with a lot of love. TWO mega Spielberg exclusives by Ian Freer, with an out of this world shoot by Art Streiber in LA. A huge interview with Jet Li by Kevin EG Perry. Hayley Campbell on set of Rivals s2. Mother Mary! The Sheep Detectives! We contain multitudes.

Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The master of sci-fi returns 🛸 Steven Spielberg beams up with Empire as he readies all-new alien blockbuster #DisclosureDay – and opens up on his sci-fi legacy, from E.T. and Close Encounters, to War Of The Worlds. On sale Thurs April 9. READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Genuinely quite shocked by Wireless’s decision. He has a song called Heil Hitler! He sold swastika T-shirts! He’s wildly antisemitic! Booking him is amoral to the point of nihilism

Daniel Sugarman@danielsugarman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

All of the major British Jewish communal organisations have condemned the Wireless Festival decision to have Kanye West headline in Finsbury Park this July. Wireless (and Pepsi, who are sponsoring) haven’t bothered to comment. www.jewishnews.co.uk/wireless-fes...

Antisemitism, arson AND attacking the ambulance service in one go? While getting caught doing so on camera? Well done, morons. Fighting the good fight there. This is no surprise though. Enough of Jewish people being dismissed for feeling unsafe in the UK. This is no joke.

Four Jewish ambulances set on fire in north London, with Starmer calling attacks 'horrific'

The attack on the Jewish community ambulance service in north London is being treated as an

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Cinema.

John Davidson, on Facebook this evening. A prince.

“The misplaced criticism arises partly from a failure to understand the realities of coprolalia. It arises, too, from the ways in which we now think about racism and diversity.” My Sunday @theobserveruk.bsky.social column online early on Thursday: observer.co.uk/news/columni...

A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was ...

The BBC Tourette syndrome furore shows that the stigma exposed by the I Swear film is ongoing

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I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye

I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye

By failing to remove John Davidson’s tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled people, says Guardian assistant Opinion editor Jason Okundaye

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🪩 #KpopDemonHunters Podcast Special 🪩 Empire’s Alex Godfrey catches writer/director duo Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans on Golden form – diving deep into the movie’s origins and its subsequent success. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6Ixs...

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