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Ben Travis
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Ben Travis
@BenSTravis
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.
- 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
- exile (feat. Bon Iver) – Taylor Swiftwhat song is he listening to
- Imagine making four film as outstanding as this, back-to-back. Imagine refusing to miss like this!
- 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*Star Wars: The Force Awakens - shot 152
- This exchange was on the last episode of The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds and it was the greatest put-down ever 🔥🔥🔥
- 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: empireonline.com/tv/features/st…
- 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 🍻👊🏻🐝
00:00 - Replying to @BenSTravisDon’t have a Soundcloud to plug, but: – Vote Labour – Nationalise the railways – Protect the NHS at all costs
- 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: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m…
