Easter Guestapalooza (Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland, Ludwig Göransson, Osgood Perkins), Movie Musicals, And The Oscars' Latest Stunt

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week's Empire Podcast (episode 664 if you're keeping score!) is more packed with goodness than your average Easter egg. Not only do Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and Alex Godfrey get into a discussion about what exactly makes a musical a musical (along with an impromptu visit to a certain mountain), but they tackle the week's movie news, including the revelation that the Oscars will finally have a Best Stunt Design category (note: this was recorded, due to the Easter holidays, before the new Fantastic Four trailer and Star Wars movie news. We'll get to those next week), and review Ryan Coogler's Sinners, Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's Warfare, and the new Steve Coogan film, The Penguin Lessons. And if that weren't enough, our guest egg overcracketh, as Chris sits down with Steve Coogan and co-star Jonathan Pryce, [21:13 - 33:16 approx] and Sinners' genius composer, Ludwig Göransson, [1:31:25 - 1:45:01 approx] while Alex has an engrossing chat with Warfare's directors, Ray Mendoza and the other Alex G. [52:19 - 1:07:55 approx] And finally, there's an excerpt from Chris' wonderful spoiler special chat with The Monkey director, Osgood Perkins. [1:46:16 - 1:57:31 approx] Our full spoiler special for that movie is now up in our spoiler special feed. Phew, told you it was a packed show. Enjoy!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	At BP, we've reset our strategy to grow value for shareholders,
0:06.0	growing upstream, focusing downstream, playing to our strengths, and disciplined investment in the transition.
0:14.0	This is a reset BP.
0:17.0	Find out more at BP.com forward slash reset. Transition activities such as EV charging, bioenergy and
0:24.8	renewables are a much smaller but key part of our business. The Empire podcast is brought to you
0:31.7	in association with National Rail. Tweet's posts, reels, WhatsApp, voice notes, TikToks. People today are more connected than they've ever been.
0:39.7	But no matter how many different ways exist to communicate via your phone, there's nothing quite like doing it face to face.
0:45.5	Take this podcast, for example. Could we dial in from our respective homes and bring you all this film-related fun remotely pandemic style?
0:51.7	Of course we could. But why would we pass up the opportunity to bang on about
0:55.0	the MCU and wax lyrical about June Messiah in the flesh, especially when our colleagues of such
1:00.4	lethal cunning are just a train ride away? But that's not all trains are good for. After all, if
1:04.5	Richard Reacher can explore the furthest corners of America with nothing but a folding toothbrush in
1:08.6	his pocket, there is no reason why you can't use the
1:11.1	rail network to see some of the UK's hidden gems. Perhaps you've always wanted to visit some of the
1:15.4	great British landmarks, or maybe you're itching to take a tour of some of the nation's iconic
1:19.7	movie locations. Wander the halls of Thor's Asgard, or, as it's known on Earth, Durham Cathedral, take a trip to the planet Takadana
1:27.6	to reenact the fight with Kylo Wren
1:29.4	in the forest of Dean,
1:30.8	or even make your own Batcave in the gardens of Nedworth House,
1:33.7	as Tim Burton did in 1989's Batman.
1:36.2	The nation is your cinematic playground,
1:38.0	so what are you waiting for?
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 17 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bauer Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bauer Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.