On the Empire Podcast this week we have a producer, a director, his wife and her lover,

all we would have if we hadn't already eaten his wife and her lover.

So we'll have to make do with the entirely uneaten talents of Jason Blum, the producer

and Brett Ratner, the director, as they talk with the purge Anarchy and Hercules respectively.

That's not all though, we also cast our beady critical collective eye on the likes of,

well, the purge Anarchy and Hercules, as well as Nick Cage's latest possible return to form Joe.

Plus all the usual movie news and nonsense on the only movie podcast that's currently being

beamed into your brain via hypnotic space lasers operated by Half-Kit and Half-Cat creatures,

known as Katins, who invisibly float around your head on tiny clouds of smudness.

No, wait, hang on, no, yep, no, I read that wrong.

The only movie podcast that you're currently listening to.

Hello, pod, I'm Annie Plum and welcome to the Empire Podcast, as you may have noticed I am not

Chris Hewitt, who is in Comic-Con and I am not Helen and horror, who was on holiday somewhere

that isn't here and I'm not Phil DeSemilin, who can't be me because he's right in front of me

sitting there, looking at his intelligent handsome nearby face.

I can tell he's in dire need of an introduction that doesn't mention art house films or subtitles,

so Phil, I'm going to tell you how nice you look. Phil, you look nice.

Thanks, Annie. Did I nail it? Yeah, good. I like, I missed the, I missed the art house introduction

a little bit. You absolutely pray. Ben is another person also in the room. He is here in our special

of course, we've been doing a lot of this lately. Three-man pod booth, he is our third man,

a man so offensively pleasant, it's almost pleasantly offensive, it's our occasionally resident

nice guy, Ben Kirby Ben, you look nice today. Thank you, that's very kind, that was pleasant to be

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