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Hello and welcome to another episode of Luke's English podcast.

This one is episode number 220 and it is called a cup of tea with Cornilio Dragomireescu

also known as the son of the dragon tamer or Dragoon in which I invite a friend on to the podcast and we just kind of chat about various things.

I like these episodes because it gives me a chance to get to know someone on the podcast and I feel like I'm an interviewer.

And you can listen to some natural free-flowing conversation

in English. Let me tell you a little bit about Cornilieu. He is a filmmaker and comedian, originally from Romania. He lives in France now where he writes, directs, produces and acts in films and television projects.

Cornilu is a polyglot which means he speaks a number of languages

including Romanian, French and English. He's a movie buff which just

he knows lots of stuff about movies and films and things.

What's the difference between a film and a movie, Luke?

Well, they're the same thing, all right?

A movie is just American English, film is British English.

Some people might say that we use the word film in a more serious way, and movie refers to the more kind of Hollywood popcorn kind of thing

you know the sort of film you watch when you eat loads of popcorn on a Saturday

night just sort of frivolous entertainment.

But really it's British and American English,

although lots of British people say movie as well now.

For me a movie is a kind of popcorn film

and a film is slightly more serious.

Anyway, they're quite interchangeable.

So Cornilieu is a bit of a movie buff.

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