On the Empire Podcast this week we talk to the great Richard Linklater director of

the remarkable boyhood and fast rising Irish actor Jack Rainer drops by to matter about

Transformers Age of Extinction Plus.

We tackle those films and begin again and as all the usual movie news and nonsense on

the only movie podcast that could defend better than Brazil.

Hello part I'm Chris Hutt and welcome to the Empire Podcast.

As with last week we got a serious staff shortage this week, lots of people galloping

to wear holidays and set visits and junkets and whatnot.

Some john by just two colleagues to chew the cinematic card and you know what?

We quite like it with three, this may become the regular scene of things.

First up is our editor and walking pub quiz machine, stick 50 p.m. and just see what happens,

go on, see what happens, it's Ali Plum, hello.

Yeah I like to think of myself as an hipbox rather than a quiz machine.

I want people to touch all those buttons and then make me get that bit on the monopoly

board that gives you another go.

Oh yeah.

Do you prefer coins or cards in general?

In terms of people inserting things into you.

Ah good question.

Possibly the best I've ever been asked.

I would say I prefer when people insert coins into me.

Next up we have our art house guru, a man who once blew a month's wages on a pub quiz machine

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