#464 — Mike Rianda, Alexandre Aja, Darius Marder

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode of the Empire Podcast is one of those jam-packed, bumper-sized affairs. Largely because we have three incredible directors guesting on the show. First up is Mike Rianda, whose animated marvel The Mitchells Vs The Machines, is one of our favourite movies of the year thus far. He talks to Chris Hewitt and Ben Travis about his experiences making the movie, providing a few voices along the way, and even reveals that he listens to the pod. We're so sorry, Mike. Then, Chris has a chat with the French filmmaker Alexandre Aja about his new sci-fi thriller, Oxygen, a high-concept flick in which Melanie Laurent wakes up in a futuristic pod with no memory of how she got there. And last but not least, Chris has a slightly spoilerific chat with Sound Of Metal's brilliant director, Darius Marder, ahead of that film's release into UK cinemas next week. This is also a preview of their spoiler special interview, which will soon be available to subscribers. Then, in the virtual podbooth, Chris is joined by Helen O'Hara and James Dyer for a fun episode in which they discuss the week's movie news, from an unrecognisable Leonardo DiCaprio to the latest casting news for Knives Out 2; review Oxygen, Those Who Wish Me Dead, and Fried Barry; and in a listener question inspired by The Mitchells Vs The Machines, discuss which directors would become giant faces on their own personal Mount Rushmore. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	The M.R. Podcast is weak, it's time for another of our occasional guest, Hatrix, as
0:20.0	we're joined by a trio of wonderful directors.
0:23.9	First off, goal, it's my grander from the Mitchell's Fursism Machines, Scocha, it's
0:31.7	Alexandra Aga from Oxygen and Crikey.
0:37.4	Back for more, it's Sound of Metal's Darius Martyr, all that and more on the M.R. Podcast
0:42.8	that has forgotten what a Hatrix actually is.
0:45.7	It's been a very hard season for Liverpool fans, folks.
0:50.0	Very hard season indeed.
0:51.6	Hello, pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the M.R. Podcast.
0:54.3	This week I'm joined by not a Hatrix of colleagues of such lethal cunning, because there's only
0:59.1	two of them and that is technically a brace, a brace of colleagues of such lethal cunning,
1:05.1	geek queen, Helena Hara.
1:07.1	Hello, I like Hatrix, like the one that Johnny Depp does in Benny and June.
1:11.1	Oh, no, it's problematic.
1:13.3	Canceled.
1:14.3	I couldn't remember which film Charlie Chaplin did one, but he's also problematic so it doesn't
1:20.2	really help.
1:21.2	But it's like a Russian dog.
1:22.6	I was forced to go and see Benny and June at the cinema against my will.
1:27.1	I was dating someone at the time and I wanted to go and see Jurassic Park and she made me
1:30.1	go and see Benny and June and I remember thinking I could be watching fucking T-rexas
1:33.6	instead.
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