Nick de Semlyen
@nickdesemlyen.bsky.social
Editor of Empire. Author of The Last Action Heroes & Wild And Crazy Guys. Devourer of Twiglets.
Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Critters 3.
September 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Critters 3.
This SNL sketch 👌🍕
September 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This SNL sketch 👌🍕
While in Warsaw this week, I got to visit the Kinoteka and watch the 4K restoration of Amadeus, with a full house.
What a joy. Hadn’t seen the film for many years and had forgotten just how funny it is - and how hard that ending hits. The ultimate movie about jealousy. Cinema’s greatest giggle.
What a joy. Hadn’t seen the film for many years and had forgotten just how funny it is - and how hard that ending hits. The ultimate movie about jealousy. Cinema’s greatest giggle.
August 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
While in Warsaw this week, I got to visit the Kinoteka and watch the 4K restoration of Amadeus, with a full house.
What a joy. Hadn’t seen the film for many years and had forgotten just how funny it is - and how hard that ending hits. The ultimate movie about jealousy. Cinema’s greatest giggle.
What a joy. Hadn’t seen the film for many years and had forgotten just how funny it is - and how hard that ending hits. The ultimate movie about jealousy. Cinema’s greatest giggle.
This is a big one 🔥
For our new issue I got to head to New Zealand to shadow James Cameron for 2 days, as he perfects Avatar: Fire And Ash.
Eyeball-searing subs-cover art by Fire And Ash concept artist Dylan Cole.
On sale Thursday. Available to order online from Monday. Subs copies dropping soon!
For our new issue I got to head to New Zealand to shadow James Cameron for 2 days, as he perfects Avatar: Fire And Ash.
Eyeball-searing subs-cover art by Fire And Ash concept artist Dylan Cole.
On sale Thursday. Available to order online from Monday. Subs copies dropping soon!
July 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is a big one 🔥
For our new issue I got to head to New Zealand to shadow James Cameron for 2 days, as he perfects Avatar: Fire And Ash.
Eyeball-searing subs-cover art by Fire And Ash concept artist Dylan Cole.
On sale Thursday. Available to order online from Monday. Subs copies dropping soon!
For our new issue I got to head to New Zealand to shadow James Cameron for 2 days, as he perfects Avatar: Fire And Ash.
Eyeball-searing subs-cover art by Fire And Ash concept artist Dylan Cole.
On sale Thursday. Available to order online from Monday. Subs copies dropping soon!
Direct from the mixing stage of Tron: Ares… our new light-up cover!
As posted by the film’s director, Joachim Rønning.
As posted by the film’s director, Joachim Rønning.
July 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Direct from the mixing stage of Tron: Ares… our new light-up cover!
As posted by the film’s director, Joachim Rønning.
As posted by the film’s director, Joachim Rønning.
We’ve all been there.
June 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We’ve all been there.
There’s a moment in Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours that is the closest I’ve come to throwing up in a cinema: the bit where the knife tip touches the nerve (accompanied by gnarly sound design). Haven’t seen 28 Years Later yet but wonder if there’s anything in it that will elicit the same reaction...
June 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There’s a moment in Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours that is the closest I’ve come to throwing up in a cinema: the bit where the knife tip touches the nerve (accompanied by gnarly sound design). Haven’t seen 28 Years Later yet but wonder if there’s anything in it that will elicit the same reaction...
Yes, @chrishewitt.bsky.social and I are shamelessly plugging again, in another episode of The Shameless Plug, talking about the highlights of our new issue - and some tales from various sets.
Have a listen. And please check out the issue: it’s - yep - fantastic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Have a listen. And please check out the issue: it’s - yep - fantastic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
June 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Yes, @chrishewitt.bsky.social and I are shamelessly plugging again, in another episode of The Shameless Plug, talking about the highlights of our new issue - and some tales from various sets.
Have a listen. And please check out the issue: it’s - yep - fantastic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Have a listen. And please check out the issue: it’s - yep - fantastic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Spotted this ‘advert’ on the Tube. NOT OMINOUS AT ALL NOPE.
June 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Spotted this ‘advert’ on the Tube. NOT OMINOUS AT ALL NOPE.
An inspired themed season for June from @criterionchannl.bsky.social.
June 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
An inspired themed season for June from @criterionchannl.bsky.social.
Have been hearing great things about this one from all over… and it all proved true.
Make sure to catch on the big screen while it’s out - this is the real deal: hilarious, heartbreaking, and probably other positive words beginning with ‘h’ too.
Make sure to catch on the big screen while it’s out - this is the real deal: hilarious, heartbreaking, and probably other positive words beginning with ‘h’ too.
June 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Have been hearing great things about this one from all over… and it all proved true.
Make sure to catch on the big screen while it’s out - this is the real deal: hilarious, heartbreaking, and probably other positive words beginning with ‘h’ too.
Make sure to catch on the big screen while it’s out - this is the real deal: hilarious, heartbreaking, and probably other positive words beginning with ‘h’ too.
Listening to some Beatles this morning, and suddenly remembered this photo that the Hobbit actors from LOTR made for Beatlemaniac Peter Jackson for his birthday.
May 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Listening to some Beatles this morning, and suddenly remembered this photo that the Hobbit actors from LOTR made for Beatlemaniac Peter Jackson for his birthday.
Very excited for this. Set the Bruce loose.
May 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Very excited for this. Set the Bruce loose.
Very sad to learn that Barry McIlheney, Empire’s visionary original editor, has passed away.
Sharp, funny, and bold, in 1989 he and his team laid down the tone and philosophy of the magazine, something we still strive to follow today.
Here’s a piece he wrote for our 400th issue a few years back.
Sharp, funny, and bold, in 1989 he and his team laid down the tone and philosophy of the magazine, something we still strive to follow today.
Here’s a piece he wrote for our 400th issue a few years back.
May 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Very sad to learn that Barry McIlheney, Empire’s visionary original editor, has passed away.
Sharp, funny, and bold, in 1989 he and his team laid down the tone and philosophy of the magazine, something we still strive to follow today.
Here’s a piece he wrote for our 400th issue a few years back.
Sharp, funny, and bold, in 1989 he and his team laid down the tone and philosophy of the magazine, something we still strive to follow today.
Here’s a piece he wrote for our 400th issue a few years back.
Shameless Plug time! @chrishewitt.bsky.social and I talk through the latest issue of @empiremagazine.bsky.social - the one with a dinosaur on the cover. Check it out here… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
May 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Shameless Plug time! @chrishewitt.bsky.social and I talk through the latest issue of @empiremagazine.bsky.social - the one with a dinosaur on the cover. Check it out here… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Not seen this kind of language used before around press screenings.
Positive responses allowed.
Anything negative outlawed.
Heinous.
Positive responses allowed.
Anything negative outlawed.
Heinous.
May 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Not seen this kind of language used before around press screenings.
Positive responses allowed.
Anything negative outlawed.
Heinous.
Positive responses allowed.
Anything negative outlawed.
Heinous.
Sydney Sweeney talks to Empire! And sits for a really quite awesome, Old Hollywood-inspired photoshoot, masterminded by @mrchrisbailey.bsky.social and Joanna Moran, shot by Art Streiber.
Read the whole interview by Rebecca Nicholson here: www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...
Read the whole interview by Rebecca Nicholson here: www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...
May 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Sydney Sweeney talks to Empire! And sits for a really quite awesome, Old Hollywood-inspired photoshoot, masterminded by @mrchrisbailey.bsky.social and Joanna Moran, shot by Art Streiber.
Read the whole interview by Rebecca Nicholson here: www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...
Read the whole interview by Rebecca Nicholson here: www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...
Minority Report has one of my favourite sci-fi guns.
May 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Minority Report has one of my favourite sci-fi guns.
Loved revisiting Minority Report at the cinema today. So many playful Spielberg riffs - like this inspired overhead shot tracking spider robots as they invade an apartment complex.
May 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Loved revisiting Minority Report at the cinema today. So many playful Spielberg riffs - like this inspired overhead shot tracking spider robots as they invade an apartment complex.
Excited to see cinema’s most disgusting fridge on the big screen tonight.
May 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Excited to see cinema’s most disgusting fridge on the big screen tonight.
Take a moment to bask in the joy of Tom Cruise meeting Tom Crooz.
May 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Take a moment to bask in the joy of Tom Cruise meeting Tom Crooz.
Lighting the fuse and stuff.
May 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Lighting the fuse and stuff.
Anyone else got a soft spot for this movie?
May 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Anyone else got a soft spot for this movie?
Happy to report that within Tom Cruise’s arsenal of skills is a very decent impression of Jack Nicholson.
May 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Happy to report that within Tom Cruise’s arsenal of skills is a very decent impression of Jack Nicholson.
Ahead of Tom Cruise at the BFI tonight, revisiting the genius of his Cocktail monologue 🍹
May 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ahead of Tom Cruise at the BFI tonight, revisiting the genius of his Cocktail monologue 🍹