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The Empire Film Podcast

#46: Feb 1, 2013 - Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis, Rafe Spall

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2013

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

With regular host Chris Hewitt away on a top secret mission to Los Angeles, Helen O'Hara takes his place in the podcast hosting chair, overseeing a show where reviews editor Ian Freer explains just how star ratings work, The Muppets sequel gets analysed and the week's releases - including Flight and Bullet To The Head - are reviewed. Plus, look forward to a snippet of the longer Denzel Washington and Robert Zemeckis interview and a fresh 15 minutes with I Give It A Year star Rafe Spall and I Give It A Year writer/director Dan Mazer. Just wait until you find out who (or what) a 'Rapscallion' is...

Transcript

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0:00.0

On the Empire Podcast this week, we take flight with Denzel Washington and Robert Zemeckis.

0:19.3

We give it 20 minutes with Dan Mazer and Riff Spull on our give it a year.

0:23.5

We talk Bill Murray in Hyde Park on Hudson and we discuss the muffits again and more.

0:29.5

Hello all, I'm Helen O'Hara and welcome to the 46th Empire Podcast, the only movie

0:34.3

podcast to have landed a plane upside down and backwards while stone-cold sober.

0:39.4

You may have noticed that I'm not Chris Hewitt and that's because I've engineered a hostile

0:43.0

takeover of the show and have horribly killed him.

0:46.8

Alright fine, he's away on a trip and we'll be back next week.

0:50.4

But in the meantime, this is still mine, all mine.

0:53.4

I need to work a mabel laugh.

0:56.7

I am thrilled and relieved today to be able to welcome three colleagues to share the

1:00.5

awesome burden of this podcast.

1:03.2

First up is a man to whom awesome burdens are nothing, carrying as he does the weight

1:07.0

of the magazine on his shoulders like a modern day atlas.

1:10.6

It's Ian Freer.

1:11.6

Hey, how you doing, Helen?

1:12.6

I'm very well, thank you.

1:13.6

I'm good.

1:14.6

I'm still reeling from the news that JJ Abrams is going to be directing Star Wars episode

1:17.4

7.

1:18.4

Are you happy?

1:19.4

I'm very happy, yeah.

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