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Alex Godfrey

United Kingdom

Writer at Freelance

Features Editor at Empire

Features Editor at @empiremagazine. BSME Best Feature Writer 2023 / Nominated for 2024. Previously: Guardian / GQ / Esquire / Sunday Times Culture / Wired etc

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Articles

  • Warfare

    3 weeks ago | 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.

  • Anora’s Best Picture Win Is A Victory For Truly Independent Cinema

    1 month ago | 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.

  • Cobra Kai: Season 6, Part 3

    2 months ago | 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.

  • David Lynch On The Fabelmans: ‘Laura Dern Encouraged Me To Do It’

    Jan 17, 2025 | empireonline.com | Alex Godfrey

    It was a revelatory moment for the aspiring filmmaker. Attempting to transition from amateur home-movies to a professional career, the 15-year-old Steven Spielberg found himself in the office of John Ford.

  • Willem Dafoe: The Nosferatu Vampire-Hunter On A Life In The Shadows

    Dec 27, 2024 | empireonline.com | Alex Godfrey

    Willem Dafoe is one of the world’s biggest actors — but over five decades on screen, he’s been consistently drawn to oddballs. With his unhinged vampire hunter in Nosferatu about to be unleashed, we speak to him about challenging the norm. “Chaos reigns,” said the fox.

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Alex Godfrey
Alex Godfrey @MrGodfrey
19 Dec 24

Just to say that I'm not here. I'm here. https://t.co/RVuzIR7EZH

Alex Godfrey
Alex Godfrey @MrGodfrey
29 Nov 24

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.

Empire
Empire @empiremagazine

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

Alex Godfrey
Alex Godfrey @MrGodfrey
21 Nov 24

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:

Empire
Empire @empiremagazine

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