In the words of The Breakfast Club’s John Bender, being bad feels pretty good. You don’t need to tell that to this month’s Empire cover stars — they’re some of the most despicable and dastardly villains ever committed to film, from Hans Gruber to the Xenomorph from Alien. Our Greatest Villains Ever issue hits the shelves on Thursday January 25, and to balance out all that evil, it also has all of the below goodness inside.
The Greatest Villains Of All Time
This month Empire takes a deep dive into the baddest baddies to ever grace the screen. There’s the entire history of Halloween hacker Michael Myers, an interview with the T-1000 himself, Robert Patrick, and the ultimate intergalactic battle for the Dark Side: Vader or Kylo Ren?
Mute
Step into the neon-drenched world of Duncan Jones’ future-noir thriller Mute, which hits Netflix at the end of February. The director talks the film’s long road to fruition, and there are eye-frazzling glimpses into the futuristic take on Berlin that Jones has cooked up.
Paddy Considine: The Empire Interview
Beloved British actor Paddy Considine is on both sides of the camera for Journeyman, his directorial follow-up to Tyrannosaur. In the Empire Interview, he talks acting hang-ups, transitioning between stage and screen, and why Rocky changed his life.
On.Screen
As if its 13 Oscar nominations weren’t already enough of a hint, The Shape of Water is seriously good. Read Empire’s verdict (hint: you’ll see above that it’s five-star), as well as write-ups on Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, I, Tonya, and Netflix’s new sci-fi series Altered Carbon.
Re.View
In the home entertainment arena, Kingsman: The Golden Circle gets a blow-by-blow breakdown by its director Matthew Vaughn, Denis Villeneuve gives us the low-down on Blade Runner 2049’s replicants, and Stephen King’s filmography gets a definitive ranking from Team Empire.
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