On the Empire Podcast, this week we go smeg and nuts for the return of Red Dwarf,

with Craig Charles and Chris Barry, David Thompson, Diana Filmwriters, drops into show

us pre-historic bitches how he does things downtown, and we have all the week's film

news and reviews for you to peruse, while listening to Muse. Hello pod, I'm Chris

Youad and welcome to the Empire Podcast, the only movie podcast that steps straight

off a plane from L.A. and it feels absolutely...

Hey, whoa, hey, as ever I'm joined by three of my esteemed colleagues at Empire Towers.

Thanks for that, Phil. All of them are hopefully more awake than I am. Helen Ahara is still

missing an action. She was last seen heading to Vegas, muttering darkly about stegging an

entire year's salary on the spin of Roulette Wheel, that's £20 if you're asking. So while

she's away, doing his best in effect an approximation of her soothing Gloria Honeyford-esque tones is

a man described by Lister of a Red Dwarf as looking like loud bloke from Jethrool. It's

Ali Plum. Hello sir, how are you? Oh well, I don't know who the Jethrool Plum told

guy is, who is that? He essentially is a guy with curly hair, and I have curly hair,

you know, cray chiles as a curliest, and I just have to...

He's a curlist. I have to just take that bullshit every day in the street, where's your

flute, all that stuff, all the time. Really? Constantly? Almost constantly. Next up we have a man

who tells me privately that he's annoyed to be in pigeonholed as someone who's only

into obscure art house flicks. He lives in Breeze blockbusters and big commercial fare

like the rest of us. Conversely though, he's also possibly the only person on the planet

to have uttered immortal words, oh good, my Abbas Carriostami box set has arrived to give

us a great pleasure to welcome Phil DeSemlian, you actually said those words. Oh good, my

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