Ben Travis

1 week ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

Raised in a survivors’ colony on Holy Island, 12-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams) takes a rite-of-passage trip to the infection-ravaged English mainland with his dad (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Original Title:28 Years LaterDanny Boyle and Alex Garland have never made obvious choices. Take 2002’s 28 Days Later in which they — Boyle as director, Garland as screenwriter — revolutionised zombie cinema with sprinting, blood-vomiting hordes. (Okay, technically ‘infected’, not reanimated-corpse zombies).

1 week ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

1, 2, 3, 4! As the second half of the year approaches, and awards season begins to appear on the horizon, it is – once again – music biopic time. And this year it’s the turn of Bruce Springsteen, the legendary New Jersey rock icon, who’s getting the big-screen treatment in a film now titled Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (it previously didn’t have his name on there), from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper.

1 week ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis |Jordan King

Contains major spoiler for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning... obviously. For two years, Mission: Impossible fans have waited for the conclusion to Dead Reckoning – now finally arrived in the form of The Final Reckoning, a super-sized possible-ending for the franchise, capping off Ethan Hunt’s wrestle with A.I. nemesis The Entity.

1 week ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

Admit it: it’s hard to imagine The Naked Gun without Leslie Nielsen, or the comedy stylings of filmmaking legends Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. But worry not. The new sequel (sort of a reboot, but technically in the same continuity as the originals) not only has Liam Neeson in deadpan comedy mode, one he rarely employs but has previously excelled in – see Life’s Too Short, or The LEGO Movie – but also comes from The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer.

2 weeks ago | empireonline.com | Ben Travis

For over 30 of our Earth years now, the alien Xenomorphs and predatory Yautja have had intergalactic beef. The extra-terrestrial rivalry of cinema’s lairiest lifeforms began in 1989 in a Dark Horse comic, while the following year’s big-screen Predator 2 upped the stakes by placing a phallic skull from H.R. Giger’s snarling beast in the dreadlocked hunter’s trophy cabinet. But when the two species finally came to blows cinematically – in 2004’s Alien vs. Predator, and 2007’s Aliens vs.