On the Empire podcast this week, we bring Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, the director's

Ruby Sparks, to glorious life, just by porting about them. Nicholas Wyndon Reffin drives

into the pod booth, drives into the pod booth, to talk about pusher with Richard Coil,

and as usual, there's more news, reviews, and movie-related daffness than you can shake

a stick at it. Although, why you want to shake a stick at it is beyond me. Hello, pod,

I'm Chris Eward, and welcome to the Empire podcast. The only movie podcast that hasn't

loved a tie-briter and Tom Hanks' general direction, mainly because they're very expensive

and very difficult to throw. As ever, I'm joined by three people who

in custom and a sternly worded letter from HR dictates, I should call colleagues. First

off, I'm joined by the best of the best, the cream of the crop. A man who right now is

wearing a sweater that can best be described as a funcular. It's Nick DeSemilian. I was

actually going for shortish no lemons. I take offense to that. A funcular is a good word.

This is a very hip jumper. A funcular is how Robert Prosky's

character is described at the end of gremlins, too. I've always liked that word as a result

of that. Next up, there must be a sale on DeSemilian's, because we've got another one.

By one, get one free. This one, of course, is our resident art house guru, a man so in

love with independent cinema, let he's the only person in the world who makes jokes about

fast binders penis. It's Phil DeSemilian. He's just staring at me. Phil with hatred. No,

no, I'm just doing this one silently. Oh, really? Yeah. Call it the Adorea, like.

Look it up. And last but not least, is the man who makes his podcast possible through the

sheer power of his editing skills as skills with an S. It's a bouncy, flouncy, wonderful

hunker man that is Ali Plum. How are you? I'm well. I'm grateful for the compliment.

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