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No./1 Handmaking a new genre of British film • How director MARK JENKIN is following up his hit debut Bait with another experimental folk outing

No./2 From the West Midlands to Westeros • Birmingham-born actor Steve Toussaint on his role in Game Of Thrones spin-off HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, the culmination of a prolific 30-year career

Ellora Torchia • STAR OF PANDEMIC HORROR IN THE EARTH

No./3 The period drama inspired by Hamilton • How Mr. Malcolm’s List took a fresh approach to casting its Austen-era romance

THE HISTORY OF THE TEN RINGS • The bad guys who were in the MCU from day one

No./4 Could this be Marvel’s biggest-ever action movie? • SHANG-CHI’s director explains how the MCU is looking to punch above its weight with its first Asian-American superhero

No. /5 Leonardo DiCapri-who? • The internet says he’s “unrecognisable” in his new film — here are six times he’s looked, well, entirely like himself

Venom: Let There Be Carnage • Unfiltered, uncensored, uncompromising trailer reactions from team EMPIRE

No./6 The One Where We Pulled Off The Friends Reunion • Director BEN WINSTON on the collective effort behind the TV event of the year

No./7 The werewolf horror-comedy you need to know about • The director of lo-fi whodunnit WEREWOLVES WITHIN on his buzzy breakout film

No./8 PLACE YOUR BETS NOW! • TIME TO PUT YOUR MONEY ON WHO THE KILLER MIGHT BE IN KNIVES OUT 2

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

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No./9 What it’s like to direct Nicolas Cage (as himself) • Director Tom Gormican on his mad Cage meta-comedy THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT

No./10 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./11 HEROIC FARM ANIMALS • Is it possible that this year’s biggest movie stars are, in fact, four-legged? You can bet the farm on it

No./12 Inside Neill Blomkamp’s lockdown comeback • The DISTRICT 9 director returns with his first film in six years — a horror film conceived and shot during the pandemic

No./13 It’s Line Of Duty — but under water • How submarine crime thriller Vigil is leaning hard on its connections with the BBC’s biggest hit

No./14 LUZ: THE FLOWER OF EVIL • DEBUT DIRECTOR JUAN DIEGO ESCOBAR ALZATE ON HIS MYSTERIOUS FEVER-DREAM HORROR

No./15 Meet the cinematographer everyone wants to work with • CHUNG CHUNG-HOON made his name with Oldboy and The Handmaiden — now Edgar Wright and Star Wars are calling

No./16 The secret to a Sundance success • How CODA defied the odds to become a historic, record-breaking festival hit

No./17 The film that gives a middle finger to history • Three ways that AMERICA: THE MOTION PICTURE gets it ridiculously, deliberately, gleefully wrong

JOHN KRASINSKI • Hi, John. It’s 8.30 in the morning where you are. It is indeed!

No. /18 Kurupt FM’s Japanese diary • Asim Chaudhry (aka Chabuddy G) writes an exclusive account of the cult BBC mockumentary’s Japan-set first big-screen outing

No./19 In praise of a sardonic scene-stealer •...