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EDITORIALTHIS MONTHYOU DON’T NEED to run at Barry Allen velocity to tamper with time. Nor do you need a Dial of Destiny ( just as well: my dials are all regular ones). No, it turns out you just need to put on preview screenings of The Flash and Indiana Jones 5, and hey presto, you’re magically back in the summer of 1989. Harrison Ford cracking a whip. Michael Keaton in a Batsuit. All that’s needed to complete the illusion is the return of Weekend At Bernie’s, but happily that hasn’t been rebooted. Yet. Yes, we’ve had a busy month at Empire VIP Club, putting on not just those two preview screenings (with Keaton himself in the house!) but also a Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse event, with stars Shameik Moore and Daniel…2 min

EMPIREA LOVER, NOT A HADERON THE RELEASE OF FLAMIN’ HOT, A FILM ABOUT A FLAVOUR OF CHEETOS: LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SPICY NIK NAKS MOVIE. SHAUN JENKINS Just wanted to say how much I appreciated the Bill Hader interview in last month’s Empire magazine [issue #414]. Funny, honest, authentic — I found the articulation of his mental-health struggles particularly moving. It’s so important for people seen as successful and ‘having it all’ to admit their vulnerability in this way. It encourages the rest of us to do so, too! JON TATTZ, VIA EMAIL Thanks for your email, Jon. As shady and immoral as Barry is, Mr Hader seems to us to be the complete opposite: truly, just a good dude.…1 min

EMPIRELOST IN TRANSLATIONAfter watching the bloody but brilliant Sisu recently, I was inspired to consider other potential film titles that don’t easily translate. Perhaps ‘Bants’, ‘Kummerspeck’ or ‘co*ckwomble’ might be hitting the silver screen before too long...?! PAUL NAPLETON, NORWICH Coming soon to a cinema in Finland: ‘Cheeky Nandos’. I’M JUST READING THE NEW @EMPIREMAGAZINE AND IT’S TRULY GLORIOUS! THE LAIKA FEATURE IS BEAUTIFUL BUT IT DELIVERED THE TERRIBLE NEWS THAT WILDWOOD IS ACTUALLY GONNA BE OUT IN 2025?? HEARTBREAKING. @OUTATIMEFILMPOD…1 min

EMPIRETALK TOUSTHE CAT IS SAT ON THE MAG I’ve been a long-time subscriber of your excellent magazine, but I’m afraid I finally have a complaint to make — your magazine is clearly too comfortable. (Evidence attached.) Each month I have to fight Harvey for my right to read it! Please ensure it is less comfortable for cats in future. (Unless he’s a Flerken?!) MEL CLARKE, VIA EMAIL Sorry to hear you’re having to share Empire with a possible Flerken, Mel. (We’d advise you to keep away from the freaky felines in this month’s Trend Report on page 15.) Next time Harvey has a tabby tantrum, maybe take a cinema trip — with a Picturehouse Membership, on us. Picture house Empire’s star letter wins a Picturehouse Membership, valid for one year at…1 min

TAKE 20How to go toe-to-toe with DiCaprio (and De Niro)LILY GLADSTONE IS in the midst of an emotional return trip. “I’m back in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. It’s dance season,” she tells Empire over Zoom in early June. A key scene in Killers Of The Flower Moon — Martin Scorsese’s upcoming epic set in the historic city — involves the ceremonial dance of Native American tribe the Osage Nation, known as the In-Lon-Schka. After wrapping the film, in which Gladstone plays true-life 1920s Osage resident Mollie Burkhart, she wanted to experience the real thing, having only been able to witness a simulation of the dance during the shoot (filming the actual In-Lon-Schka is forbidden). “The district where Mollie Burkhart and her sisters were from had their dances this past weekend,” she says. “So I came back to town for that.” A…3 min

TAKE 20A new kind of Coen collaboration“ME AND JOEL would never have made this movie,” says Ethan Coen. “It would not have happened.” Returning after a five-year break, Coen’s debut ‘solo’ feature (there’s a good reason for those single quotes) might appear cut from the same cloth as any of his collaborations with his older brother. Drive-Away Dolls is, after all, a road movie involving a domino-toppling mix-up, a bunch of inept criminals and a few big names (Pedro Pascal, Matt Damon) in weird roles. Except… “I don’t think me and Joel would have written a romantic comedy with two female leads.” Those leads are the carefree Jamie and the buttoned-up Marian (played respectively by Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan): two twentysomething lesbians who, in 1999, hit the road to Tallahassee with, they soon discover, a…3 min

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