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THIS MONTH

TALK TO US

No./1 Is this game over for the video-game curse? • HBO’s console adaptation THE LAST OF US is set to deliver fungal thrills and huge emotion

No./2 Meet Marcel The Shell, an untrendy movie star

No./3 Memoir-movie mania! • With a wave of personal films from A-list directors crashing in, Empire measures just how close-to-life they get

No./4 Creating a character through music

BLACK IN FOCUS

No./5 ONE SMALL STEP FOR SHEEP • AARDMAN CO-FOUNDER PETER LORD ON SHAUN THE SHEEP BECOMING THE FIRST OF HIS KIND TO VISIT THE MOON IN NOVEMBER’S NASA MISSION

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3

No./6 The gay-Marine biopic that defied the odds • The filmmaker behind The Inspection on bringing his personal story to the screen

INTRODUCING... • THE 19-YEAR-OLD GOES DEEP AS SUB-AQUA NA’VI TSIREYA IN AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

No./7 Beyond the chaos of Cocaine Bear

No./8 Inside a black-market baby heist

No./10 MCU: PHASE DAD • With kids popping up all over the place, we speculate what it all means for Marvel’s future

No./9 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 “Movies are a chance to escape from reality. Sometimes we need that just to breathe.”

No./13 A-LIST ACCORDIONS

No./12 The making of Unwelcome’s little monsters

No./14 The Martin Scorsese crime epic that doesn’t exist

No./16 WHO WILL CHECK BACK INTO THE WHITE LOTUS? • After Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya returned for Season 2, we ponder who might be back for the third resort mystery

No./15 Bruce’s baubles • Horror icon — and star of Hallmark’s latest Christmas movie — Bruce Campbell on his perfect festive season

No./17 The fight sequence that’s the cat’s meow

No./18 Disney’s forgotten rabbit returns

No./19 The mystery of the accidental detective

No./20 How Evil Dead got its groovy back

PINT OF MILK

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

ENYS MEN

SPIRITED

EMANCIPATION

VIOLENT NIGHT

TILL

WHITE NOISE

TÁR

EMPIRE OF LIGHT

STRANGE WORLD

DISENCHANTED

CORSAGE

THE ENFORCER

THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLIDAY SPECIAL

“SR.”

PETER VON KANT

LAST FLIGHT HOME

STUTZ

HIS DARK MATERIALS: SERIES 3

1899

WILLOW

WELCOME TO CHIPPENDALES

SLOW HORSES: SERIES 2

ON SCREEN CHECKLIST

the Gratest Actors

“HE’S AN ANARCHIST”

SIDNEY POITIER

the Boss

“HER ACTING SYNAPSES ARE SO ATTUNED”

MICHELLE YEOH

the Shaman • THERE IS NO ACTOR ON PLANET EARTH QUITE LIKE NICOLAS CAGE. DURING AN EXTRAORDINARY MORNING IN HIS LAS VEGAS COMPOUND, HE EXPOUNDS ON HIS MYSTICAL CRAFT

“HE CHANGED THE COURSE OF CINEMA”

the Enigma • BEHIND THE MYSTIQUE AND THE WHITE-HOT FAME, MARILYN MONROE WAS A FINELY TUNED ACTOR WITH TALENT TO BURN

“HE IS AS FAR FROM CONVENTIONAL AS YOU CAN GET”

BETTE DAVIS • MARGO’S DRUNKEN DIATRIBE IN ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)

the Chameleon • NEVER REPEATING, ALWAYS REINVENTING: TILDA SWINTON IS THE ULTIMATE SHAPESHIFTER. SHE TELLS US WHY SHE HAS TO KEEP...