Ben Travis
@BenSTravis
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Deputy Online Editor at @EmpireMagazine. One half of the @Disniversity Podcast. Clean and rad and powerful.
London
Joined February 2012
This bloke in a glittery gold suit has started a quiz on our train. The prizes: a chomp, an M&S flapjack, and a scotch egg. The carriage is RAPT.
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Me to my wife: “I don’t have too many Blu-rays, I am actually a custodian of these films for many generations to come.”.
Guillermo del Toro joins Christopher Nolan in championing physical media. “Physical media is almost a Fahrenheit 451 (where people memorized entire books and thus became the book they loved) level of responsibility. If you own a great 4K HD, Blu-ray, DVD etc etc of a film or
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exile (feat. Bon Iver) – Taylor Swift.
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Imagine making four film as outstanding as this, back-to-back. Imagine refusing to miss like this!
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The thing people underrate about The Force Awakens (one of many things!!) is the directness and clarity with which it introduces all of its characters. In an instant, you *know* who Rey is. And Finn. And Poe. And Kylo Ren. Their look, the scene, the direction – it’s *immediate*.
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This exchange was on the last episode of The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds and it was the greatest put-down ever 🔥🔥🔥
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So sad about The Acolyte. Spilled my guts on it all here:.
Leslye Headland's #TheAcolyte deserved a Season 2 – and #StarWars will be poorer without it, writes @BenSTravis. Read why:
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Brad Allan’s action design work was legendary, what a loss. So many incredible fight scenes, but The Beehive brawl in The World’s End has always been one of my favourites – a major factor in why it’s secretly my favourite Cornetto Trilogy film. Raise a glass 🍻👊🏻🐝
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Don’t have a Soundcloud to plug, but:.– Vote Labour.– Nationalise the railways.– Protect the NHS at all costs.
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Daisy Ridley, out here doing the lord's work. 'Rey is a nobody' vs. 'Rey is descended from Palpatine' is ultimately less important than 'Rey gets to decide who she is and what she wants to be'. From this Rolling Stone interview:
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Heads up: a bunch of acclaimed films that you might not have been able to see this year are coming to Netflix UK in the next few days
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Me: The perfect 30 minutes of TV doesn't exi-. Netflix: Watch Jon Favreau and Sam Raimi make sourdough bread together on #TheChefShow Season 3
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This trailer for the new Will Smith / Blue Sky animation genuinely has the biggest twist I've seen all year. Literally shouted 'WHAT?!' in the office:
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Saw #DungeonsAndDragons: Honour Among Thieves at the weekend. This is now a Jarnathan stan account 🦅
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Streaming services need to stop assuming that everyone has the time to watch everything *right now*. I have 4/5 shows I'm behind on that I desperately need to catch up on, and I will, but I can't get to them yet. Don't cancel things before people have time to get on board!.
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Some exciting news! After three years as a staff writer, I'm now Deputy Online Editor at @empiremagazine 🎉 Still feels mad that I get to do this for a full-time job tbh – many more news stories, features, podcasts, and objectively correct Star Wars opinions to come 🍿
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.@LizzieHampson won the Chomp for (incorrectly) naming Ringo as the youngest Beatle. Quizmaster wouldn’t accept the correct answer (George Harrison)
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@Ian__Mason He was part of a (very nice and respectful) stag group. People enjoyed the mini-quiz!.
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Watched #SaintMaud tonight. Holy shit. It’s something very special. Horror fans, get hyped 🙏🏻
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Trust the internet to take something that was generally light-hearted and inoffensive and have an absolute shit-fit over it 🤷🏻♂️.
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Trying to explain where Rogue One fits in the Star Wars timeline
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I love how this pic almost looks like Godzilla giving a little press conference to all the journalists (just out of shot) telling them that his big show has been renewed 🥹.
The kaiju business continues to boom: #MonarchLegacyOfMonsters Season 2 and the development of spin-off shows have been confirmed by Apple TV+. Read more:
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On my lunch break, hitting up London’s most glamorous Hollywood hot-spot: the Camden Odeon 🤟🏻
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Hope you’re having an easier Saturday than Jude Law, who after spending an hour digging a big hole in the rain is now dragging this boat around while people in robes sing at him #TheThirdDay
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Technically I’m 30 now, but I prefer to think of it as “9+” instead
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It is 2013 and Warner Bros is beginning a new era of DC Films. It is 2016 and Warner Bros is appointing a new head of DC Films. It is 2018 and Warner Bros is appointing a new head of DC Films. It is 2022 and Warner Bros is appointing a new head of DC Films
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If, like me, you're obsessed with the fact that a quick blast of Los Campesinos plays over the title card of The Mitchells Vs The Machines, I asked @michaelrianda about it when I spoke to him for a feature in the new Empire (on sale now). It's not in the piece, so here you go:
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God, #Barbie really is extraordinary. One of the weirdest big studio movies in recent memory. That this film exists, in this form, is something we’ll be talking about for years to come. Greta!.
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UK DRAG RACE FANS: @NetflixUK are streaming Season 9 episodes every week starting on Saturday!!!
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The Great British Bake Off just got us all invested in tomato swans and suddenly killed them off minutes later - is this #GBBO or Game Of Thrones?! #RIPTomatoSwans
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Got a Mission: Impossible hot take:. Aside from the Burj Khalifa setpiece (which remains an all-timer sequence), for my money Mission: Impossible III is a better, more consistently exciting film than Ghost Protocol. JJ’s film feels vastly underrated these days. Real banger.
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I wrote my first @empiremagazine cover feature!!! And it's Marvel!. Had ace chats with Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Kevin Feige, Kari Skogland, Malcolm Spellman, Emily VanCamp and Daniel Brühl about a very different kind of Marvel epic. Out next week!
On your left! Empire’s new issue is an exclusive dive into @MarvelStudios' all-action superhero epic The Falcon And The Winter Soldier – chatting to @AnthonyMackie, Sebastian Stan, Kevin Feige, @EmilyVanCamp and more. On sale Thurs 18 March. READ MORE:
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Really excited about the launch of Lumo, but also want to scream THIS IS WHAT TRAINS WERE ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR
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Can’t wait for the reappraisal of Eternals. I really didn’t get it on first watch, but it is fascinating on rewatched. Narratively layered, beautifully made, really distinctive filmmaking. A banger lying in wait.
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Netflix’s current business model: ‘Put Dudley Dursley in every movie’
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Gandalf rocking into Rohan and turning King Theoden from this (left) to this (right) is the original Queer Eye
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The. Bat. Man.
Light up the Bat-Signal – Empire’s world-exclusive #TheBatman issue is here, with the full story on the caped crusader’s radical reinvention. The first of two collectible covers features Robert Pattinson in the new Batsuit. Out Thurs 23 Dec. READ MORE:
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Watching Ted Danson’s inability to floss is the purest way to start your day ❤️
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Brief shot of Ronan the Accuser, from Guardians of the Galaxy, in the #CaptainMarvel trailer.
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Early sign that 2021 might actually be good: Dredd is coming to Netflix on New Year’s Day!
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Big day today! I wrote my first major feature for @empiremagazine this month on #Shazam, after going on set last year. Writing an Empire feature on a major superhero movie is a huge privilege, and I’m immensely proud of it. Go and pick up the new issue now! ⚡️
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That little montage at the end of the Bake Off 🥺 all those lovely people, who love making cakes and baked goods, making friends and achieving their dreams and keeping us all entertained in a thoroughly shitty year 😭 #GBBO.
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Heads up, comic nerds! If you’ve been paying close attention to recent MCU output and have been wanting to read @kierongillen and Jamie @McKelvie’s Young Avengers run, the complete digital omnibus is a bargain £6 on ComiXology this weekend 👀
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Did we just spend 99 minutes discussing a 2 minute trailer, mostly about how much it looks like Doctor Strange is touching himself in this scene? Of course we did!
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Here's Tessa Thompson standing between the legs of Janelle Monae's vagina trousers in the #PYNK video
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I wrote a Star Wars cover feature for Empire. I WROTE A STAR WARS COVER FEATURE FOR EMPIRE!. The Book Of Boba Fett. Favreau. Filoni. Rodriguez. Kennedy. Morrison. Wen. One hell of a bounty. Hunt it down on Thursday 💥.
Boba Fett lives! Star Wars’ biggest, baddest bounty hunter is back, and ready to rule the criminal underworld. Check out Empire’s world-exclusive #TheBookOfBobaFett cover, on sale from Thursday 25 November. READ MORE:
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This is a shot from Austin Powers, right?
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The Mitchells Vs. The Machines continuing to be *the* film of 2021.
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We already knew the non-televised category thing would be bullshit, but this is really awful. Sat watching (mostly) inane pre-awards chatter on the broadcast while major awards are being handed out. So disrespectful. Feels so wrong. A total mistake from the Academy. #Oscars2022.
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Aardman’s Star Wars short is an absolute joy – and I got to have a chat with its director about bringing Bristol to the galaxy far, far away (as well as the return of a certain legendary X-wing pilot!). Here’s an early peek:.
EXCLUSIVE 🚨. Aardman’s #StarWarsVisions racing pilot short brings back Wedge Antilles: "He has more lines in our film than the original trilogy," director Magdalena Osinska tells Empire. READ MORE:
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#SeeYouYesterday on Netflix is *really* good. A Spike Lee-produced, sub-90 min time travel indie movie that’s hugely entertaining and dramatically potent. Charismatic performances, sharp script, stylishly made. @stefonbristol is a filmmaker to watch. Get on it!
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This #InternationalWomensDay comes with a staggeringly clear example of the way that even women on the biggest public stage aren't listened to or believed – the validity of their experiences dismissed, questioned, and mocked. It's gaslighting on a mass societal scale.
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• Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes should be called Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes. • Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes should be called War For The Planet Of The Apes. • War For The Planet Of The Apes should be called Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. …welcome to my TED Talk.
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I’ve been a huge @ThatKevinSmith fan ever since I watched a VHS of Clerks way too young. In the new @empiremagazine, out today, I wrote my first Empire Masterpiece feature – about how it’s both one of the simplest movies ever made *and* an iconic, historic piece of filmmaking 📼
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This movie is a masterpiece, and this interview is *everything*
EXCLUSIVE: Rian Johnson is "even more proud" of The Last Jedi five years on, he tells Empire in a major new interview reflecting on his #StarWars sequel. READ MORE:
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These text cards in the recent #TheNewMutants teaser made me chuckle, seeing as *literally everything* has so far managed to stop The New Mutants.
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My interview with Daniel Radcliffe is out on this week’s #EmpirePodcast! This was a huge one for me, and he was so great. Talking iconic villain performances, Jungle Run, Desert Island Discs, directing, the Harry Potter reunion, making Chamber Of Secrets and more. Go and find it!
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This is terrible news, properly gutting. Nobody wins in this situation. Thinking of all the team, and the loyal readers. Buy magazines, people – I promise you they’re great 💔.
Gladiator II is on the cover of Total Film’s upcoming issue 356, which hits print and digital newsstands on October 10. It’s with a heavy heart that we announce that this will be the final issue of the print magazine. We like to think that this final print edition is a showcase
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The #SpiderVerse embargo has lifted then. It is absolutely astonishing. The easiest five stars I’ve given since Everything Everywhere All At Once. My review for @empiremagazine:.
'Visually astonishing, emotionally powerful – another masterpiece.'. Miles Morales returns, teaming up with Spider-Gwen to take on a multiversal villain, in Spider-Man: #AcrossTheSpiderVerse. Read the Empire review now:
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I would also say that 'The Rise Of Skywalker retcons everything from The Last Jedi' is a vast oversimplification at best and flat-out untrue at worst, but there's little chance of having a nuanced conversation about that online.
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Please don’t come near me or my large jar of slime ever again 😠
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Remember when we got a new Matrix for Christmas a couple of years ago? What a time to be alive
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I’m seeing rogue headlines, so let’s be clear: JJ Abrams didn’t say the Star Wars sequel trilogy needed a bigger plan. Read the quotes. He spoke in general terms about episodic storytelling and how narratives evolve. Whatever you think of those films, that’s not what he said.
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Absolutely overwhelmed. May have nearly cried in the middle of the Empire office ❤️🦕🦖
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This new issue of Empire with @edgarwright is pretty much the #Endgame Portals sequence of magazines – and not only because a) that was a cinema moment for the ages, and b) we have Chris Evans. More names coming imminently. #onyourleft
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The more that serious Star Wars bros insist – very gravely – that he's actually called The Child, the more intent I am on calling him Baby Yoda at every opportunity. *Sips soup pointedly*
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The bleakest of post-Taylor Swift scenes. Queued nearly two hours to get out, been trapped on a tube for 30 mins between Wembley and Finchley Road. Now someone has thrown up and everyone’s gipping. Plus a daddy long legs has started flying around and people are screaming. Cursed.
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@SaffeyaS you know me, when it comes to early 00s r&b / hip-hop references i'm Always on Time.
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Here it is, lovingly immortalised in Marvel's #Eternals – the Camden restaurant simply known as 'All You Can Eat For £8.80' ❤️
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For the new @empiremagazine, I was thrilled to interview the amazing @JanelleMonae – on taking charge at the Oscars, the power of genre, Afrofuturism in the mainstream, making Moonlight, wanting to be the MCU's Storm, and 'getting shit done'. She's our past, present, and future.
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