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No./1 Black Lives Matter: what happens next? • Actor, activist and Queen & Slimwriter LENA WAITHE reflects on the movement that has shaken the world — and Hollywood
No./2 Meet the future of movie musicals • The director behind Hamilton, In The Heights and now Fiddler On The Roof —THOMAS KAIL — is not throwing away his shot
No./3 BURSTING OUT OF THE GATE • Director Derrick Borte on his Russell Crowe road-rage thriller Unhinged becoming one of cinema’s comeback movies
No./4 What it feels like to go deaf • How immersive new drama Sound Of Metal depicted a drummer’s descent into deafness
No./5 The anatomy of a frog • With new unscripted show MUPPETS NOW arriving on Disney+, puppeteer Matt Vogel breaks down the essential elements that make up Kermit The Frog
No./6 Unleash the goblins! • After decades of waiting, cult favourite Labyrinth is getting a sequel — but why now?
No./7 Four ways the Scottish Highlands could kill you • New British comedy-horror BOYZ IN THE WOOD sees some teenagers battle the elements — and a bit more…
No./8 Can Ryan Gosling break the Wolfman curse? • After four decades of studio howlers, is a new moon rising for the horror icon?
No./9 MASKS SCI-FI • Masks are 2020’s must-have accessory — but these cinematic visions are a level beyond
No./10 St Joel’s fire [IN MEMORIAM] • Empire’s Alex Godfrey reflects on the life and career of JOEL SCHUMACHER, the irrepressible director who died in June
THREE TO WATCH • A selection of Schumacher’s most defining, underrated films
No./11 Goodbye, dear Bilbo • [IN MEMORIAM] brought The late magic Ian Holm to Middle-earth with his pitch-perfect Bilbo. We pay tribute to a performance of special magnificence
No./13 The weather according to David Lynch • The filmmaker has been doing weather reports on YouTube — but the elements have always pelted down on his work
No./12 Attack The Block is back! • And other upcoming projects director Joe Cornish has been cooking up to follow The Kid Who Would Be King
No./14 “I want to do a horror movie that’s different” • After the singular success of The Love Witch, director Anna Biller exclusively dishes on her next film: a feminist horror with a bite
No./15 UNLIMITED APPEAL • With the deluxe boxset release of The Outer Limits, fans can now fully appreciate the 1960s sci-fi series that Stephen King called, “The best program of its type to ever run on network TV.” We look at three of its more memorable eps.
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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA
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ABOVE SUSPICION
BLACK WATER: ABYSS
SPACESHIP EARTH
ALICE
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ARTEMIS FOWL
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
PENNY DREADFUL: CITY OF ANGELS
HIGH FIDELITY
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The King Of Staten Island
The Vast Of Night
the Big Screen PREVIEW
AMMONITE • Francis Lee’s second film treads familiar ground while having...