Alex Godfrey
Features Editor at @empiremagazine. BSME Best Feature Writer 2023 / shortlisted 2024/25. Shortlisted for PPA Best Writer 2025.
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1 month ago |
empireonline.com | Alex Godfrey
It all started with cat sick. Having moved with his family from Shanghai to Minnesota when he was six, Ben Wang learned English by consuming nine hours of television a day. Most helpful of all? Infomercials. “There would always be the same ones,” he says now, “with a guy carefully explaining what he was doing. Like, ‘Watch how the chamois absorbs your cat’s puke,’ doing the motion. And I’m like, ‘Ah, absorb.
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2 months ago |
empireonline.com | Alex Godfrey
ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD has always been drawn towards anarchy: disruptive characters who turn worlds upside down. Now, as he plays a rogue android in Murderbot, we meet him to discover what pushes his buttons“Is there blood in my hair?”, asked Alexander Skarsgård’s Eric Northman, having just killed, dismembered and feasted upon some unlucky soul in HBO’s vampire saga True Blood.
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Mar 28, 2025 |
empireonline.com | Alex Godfrey
2006, Ramadi, Iraq. Seizing an apartment to surveil the area, a group of Navy SEALs find themselves bombarded by Al-Qaeda insurgents. Appropriately, Warfare begins with a deafening assault, as Eric Prydz’s horny 2004 aerobics video for ‘Call On Me’ fills the screen, its sweaty, hormonal hardbodies lunging and lurching.
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Mar 3, 2025 |
empireonline.com | Alex Godfrey
Throughout his speeches for his record-breaking four Oscar wins yesterday (the most amount ever awarded to one person for one film), Sean Baker thanked his team, his distributors, his cast, and his crew, and the sex-worker community, and his dog Bunsen.
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Feb 13, 2025 |
empireonline.com | Alex Godfrey
After a shocking death during the Sekai Taikai, the world karate championship contest is in jeopardy. With many scores left to settle, though, it won’t be long ’til the competing dojos are at each other’s throats again… Original Title:Karate Kid, TheStreaming on: NetflixEpisodes viewed: 5 of 5Spoiler alert: the last episode of the previous chunk of Cobra Kai was fucking nuts.
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I went long on the Robbie Williams monkey movie because I love it to bits. It really is quite mad. Seen it twice, can't wait to see it again.
With #BetterMan, the Robbie Williams biopic where the star is played by a CG chimp, director Michael Gracey "pulls off the biggest cinematic surprise of the year". Read how, in Empire’s ★★★★ review, here: https://t.co/CQFPesDxJR https://t.co/UOqiafLTA5
Really stoked to have this in the magazine - a proper world-exclusive Q&A with Pharrell Williams about Golden, the new film he's made with Michel Gondry. First photo, and (a great) first interview, by Al Horner. In today's new issue, and a little bit here:
WORLD-FIRST LOOK ☀️ Pharrell Williams and Michel Gondry’s Golden is “a celebration of Black joy”, Pharrell tells Empire. "It’s a coming-of-age story about self-discovery and pursuing your dreams, but it’s so much more magical than that." READ MORE: https://t.co/Yn9VAw0gWE https://t.co/PXtq2GOQqg
