Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt, welcome to the Empire Podcasts review of the year 2014.

Joining me today to discuss the ups and downs of the past 365 days or so, our most

post in the post in the leap year was it? No, no, definitely just 365. Okay, good.

Are most of the people whose voices have made you laugh, made you cry and chilled you to the

bone this year, especially when there may be? They've done a putrid lorry impression.

They are, of course, Helena Harah, how are you? I was doing well until you did that impression.

I don't know what's wrong with that, Helena Harah. Feel the same way, how are you? Yes, very good.

Good. I like that impression, so that I don't have that sense. Why would you enable him?

Seeing a young isn't Helen doesn't like it but she really loves it.

An alley plan. Hello. Did we think, for example, the 2014, which didn't look the

promised in our paper, delivered more than it promised? Or do we think that it was actually a bit of

another well-meaning? I think I might give it four stars. Four stars, you're not mad. Now,

but looking back, there were a lot of films that I have really enjoyed and I will watch again,

and in some cases, again and again and again. So, a film that starts off with Inside

Loan Davis and finishes with Paddington. That's got to be a good year, even if there's an

eye-franconstein in the middle. You've just got to let that go, I think. There's always an

eye-franconstein in the middle, isn't there? Like a world-shitter's kind of wreck. That cinema.

There's always going to be the old bab one. There's been some bab ones, but I think it's been a good year.

I think looking at our list of top 50, there's some really outstanding films and it feels like

there's been some quite experimental numbers in there as well. I mean, boyhood obviously.

Lock. Lock. Yes. Nightcrawler. Thinking of in terms of what Helen was saying in terms of

movies you'd watch again and again, in my personal top 20s, not the top 20 or the top 50 of the

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