The Empire Movie Podcast #633 ft. Alicia Vikander, Jude Legislation, Jeremy Saulnier

There’s extra friends than hosts on the Empire Podcast this week people as, because of a mix of labor absences, holidays, and *checks notes* a canine consuming Chris Hewitt’s podcasting microphone, solely Helen O’Hara and James Dyer are on pod-duty this week. However worry not! Although their numbers be depleted, our two colleagues of such deadly crafty nonetheless carry the film-related enjoyable. Within the pod sales space (properly, over Zoom — curse ye, Covid!), Helen and James tackle a brace of listener questions, considering which doomed crews in movie they’d need to be caught with earlier than pontificating on whether or not online game films are the diversifications are the subsequent comedian ebook films. Then, on this week’s film information part (recorded earlier than the Ocean’s 14 story broke, naturally), the pod workforce deal with a slew of recent trailers — Minecraft, Nightbitch, Smile 2, and extra — and talk about Ian McKellen’s potential return to Center-earth.

On the evaluations entrance then this week, we’re tackling Tudor thriller Firebrand, Tim Burton sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith people horror Starve Acre, and tense Netflix thriller Insurgent Ridge. The primary of these movies, Firebrand, offers two of our friends within the form of Henry VIII (aka Jude Legislation) and Katherine Parr (aka Alicia Vikander), who discuss to Helen and Chris respectively. [Timings for those two are 17:04 – 33:12 approx for Alicia, and 51:28 – 1:09:04 approx for Jude.] And Insurgent Ridge offers our different interviewee proper on the finish of the pod, as Chris Hewitt talks to author/director Jeremy Saulnier about his film’s lengthy path to our screens [1:32:47 — 1:51:41 approx]. Subsequent week needs to be again to enterprise as ordinary within the pod sales space, however till then, as ever, please do get pleasure from.

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