On the Empire Podcast this week, we get caught in a tornado and swept to the magical

land of alls where we spoke to Sam Raimi and Zach Braff. We talked to Tim Roth about

his new film Broken. We experience side effects with Jude Law and talk Robot and Frank and

Parker for good measure. Hello Pod, I'm Helen O'Hara and welcome to the Empire Podcast,

the only movie podcast that has been to the magical land of alls, but came back because

there weren't enough multiplexes. I'm once again stepping into Chris Hewitt's shoes

because he's been sent on a top secret but very exciting mission to LA, which you can

read about in a future issue of Empire. And since I've not been sent anywhere top secret

or exciting but instead have been left here to languish unexcited, I thought I'd spice

up my day by hosting this week. Now, Union rules dictate that I must be joined in the

pod booth by three of my esteemed colleagues in case my ex-ex chromosome suddenly drive

me mad and I start saying nice things about Catherine Heigel and or talking about Neil

Polish. So welcome to the boys. First up, we have a man whose back garden contains a

veritable orchard of trees of wooden clogs. Hello, Phil Desemblen. Hi, Helen. How are you

doing? Yeah, good. It was an art house joke, right? No, yeah, absolutely. I don't have

garden. Let alone an orchard. Okay, but you also don't have a tree of wood. Oh, no, I do

have a tree of wood. So it's a kind of flight of fancy. Or a bush of wooden clogs. Isn't

they art house tree house? My art house tree house is launching soon. Yeah, I'm excited about that.

It's going to be awesome. Next up, we have we complete the Desemblen double bill with the

mysterious figure known only as Nick Desemblen, a man who yesterday watched the final Twilight film

without having seen any of the preceding installments. How did that go? It was abstract. It was like

the most violent abacrombian fitch advert or photoshoot ever. It was insane. There would

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