Ben Travis

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When it arrived at the start of 2023, M3GAN proved to be a very different kind of killer doll movie – one with a serious personality upgrade from your typical anonymous-murder-puppet fare. Because it turned out M3GAN herself was an instant movie star, slicing and twirling and dancing her way to immediate hit status. And that’s just the beginning.

1 week ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

You can’t keep a guy like John Wick down. As many shady underworld figures have learned to their cost, Baba Yaga simply keeps coming back. Except, John Wick: Chapter 4 seemed to somewhat close the book on Keanu Reeves’ bullet-spraying assassin. In the fourquel’s final reel, Wick seemed to succumb to his injuries in Paris, with audiences shown his tombstone for good measure – though, technically, we didn’t actually see the character die.

1 week ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

The MCU began with a suit of armour. 17 years ago, Robert Downey Jr suited up for the first time as Iron Man, cladding himself in a hotrod rocket suit and kicking off five phases of interconnected storytelling. Now, we’re about to see another character literally build themselves into a hero before our eyes: Riri Williams, aka Ironheart, the prodigious teen genius first introduced in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, who puts her technological expertise into making her own Iron Man-inspired suit.

1 week ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

For the most part, Avatar: The Way Of Water was so titled for its focus on the oceans of Pandora – with Jake Sully, Neytiri, and their Na’vi children forced to flee the RDA and bed in with the aquamarine Metkayina clan. But the sequel could also have been named for the tears provoked by its final reel. The clash between Na’vi and man came with a major consequence: the death of Jake and Neytiri’s firstborn son, Neteyam, tragically cut down on the cusp of adulthood.

1 week ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

When Jurassic World Rebirth hits the big screen, it’ll be packed with prehistoric favourites. Yes, the T-Rex is here. So is the Dilophosaurus. Even Jurassic Park III’s Spinosaurus is back on the scene. But the DNA-collecting expedition into dino-infested territory – led by Scarlett Johansson’s Zora Bennett, Jonathan Bailey’s Henry Loomis, and Mahershala Ali’s Duncan Kincaid – will bring fresh horrors too.