A joy to write my first ever five star professional review for Empire Magazine 🩵 I Saw the TV Glow is unlike anything I've ever seen before and feels like the beginning of a new era for queer cinema 🏳️‍⚧️

Blinding writing by Laura Venning (she/her) here about a truly special film. There’s a reason it opens the reviews section of our next issue (and gets the full ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)

Send in the clowns. #Joker: Folie À Deux hits the cover of Empire’s world-exclusive new issue – talking to Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga and director Todd Phillips about DC’s new bad romance. On sale Thursday 1 August. READ MORE: empireonline.com/movies/news/jo…

Some news: I will be leaving Empire Magazine at the end of August! I’m heading back to uni in September for a bit of a ~change~ If you love movies, love social, and you’d like to join the best, most passionate mag team in the business, apply for my role here ⬇️

Though I’m leaving Empire (🥲) I am not leaving film writing altogether! And will be very much available for some freelance work from Sept to fund my studies. Shall tweet more about that near the time, but editors, please keep me in mind!

Allow Coraline to introduce LAIKA’s newest hero. 🌿 Meet Prue McKeel, from upcoming epic fantasy Wildwood – star of this world-first stop-motion digital-only cover, created exclusively for Empire by LAIKA. READ MORE: empireonline.com/movies/news/la…

With #AlienRomulus, Cailee Spaeny is facing the dark. She’s Empire’s new Focus digital–cover star – talking leaving school to pursue acting, Priscilla pressure, Alex Garland, working with Xenomorphs, and more. READ THE INTERVIEW: empireonline.com/movies/feature… 📸: Rachell Smith

Spent a feral few hours revisiting Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing this weekend. The leather trousers. The lapels. Denzel smoking a cigar on a horse. Outrageous stuff.

Ready to be entertained? #GladiatorII storms the cover of Empire’s world-exclusive new issue – talking to Ridley Scott, Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and more about their Colosseum comeback. On sale Thursday 29 August. READ MORE: empireonline.com/movies/news/gl…

Strange Darling knocked the wind right out of me. Don't miss it! And I had a great, nerdy chat with cinematographer (!) Giovanni Ribisi about it for our new issue. Order it here: greatmagazines.co.uk/empire-october…

I wrote this incredibly shiny cover story!

Risky's first press drop (also a casting pitch for A Quiet Place: Day Two, this cat is a nightmare but has real range)

A 2024 highlight: getting giddy over Kylie Minogue with Alfonso Cuarón for our new issue. Out now: greatmagazines.co.uk/empire-october…

Delighted to announce that I’m featured in this months Empire Magazine talking all things Adam Pearson and A Different Man. Shout out to Alex Godfrey for the great interview. See you all soon! #adifferentman #adampearson #sebastianstan #renatereinsve #aaronschimberg #a24

I'll be on hosting duty once more for our BFI LFF x Empire Magazine presentation this year. Noémie Merlant and Céline Sciamma reunited! Bloody vengeance! Strap in for The Balconettes.

Speaking with my talented pal Corrina Antrobus 🍉 for this brilliantly-curated Film In Print programme at BFI LFF. Excellent work from Michael Leader & co. We'll be talking about Corrina's rom-com bible, her labour of love, which you can buy here: quarto.com/authors/Corrin…

✨ Back for a lil' treat! ✨ As part of BFI's London Film Fest, BTF co-pilots Corrina Antrobus 🍉 & Beth Webb will be chatting about Corrina's new book I LOVE ROMCOMS & I AM A FEMINIST! Oct 12, 2pm FREE as part of the Film In Print spesh! 🎟️whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/art…

An excellent, vital conversation with Sebastian Stan, Ali Abbasi and Alex Godfrey in the next issue of Empire Magazine. Out on Thursday: greatmagazines.co.uk/empire-novembe…

Speaking to Sebastian Stan and Ali Abbasi about The Apprentice was wild. SS on becoming Trump on set: "I was suddenly eating all the stuff, and drinking Coca-Colas and going to sleep with acid reflux and waking up in the morning and feeling sick." In our new issue, out Thursday.

One of the very best films I've seen in recent memory. Animated or otherwise. If you're able to catch it at this year's London Film Festival please do 🐾