This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast invites you to settle into a pair of cracking interviews. First up, Ben Travis has a sit-down with Richard Linklater [22:48 – 42:49 approx], director of the excellent Hit Man, which is out now and available to stream over on Netflix. Then, Chris Hewitt has a bonny time with the wonderfully loquacious Stephen Fry [1:06:39 – 1:26:31 approx], whose father-daughter road-trip dramedy Treasure, based on Lily Brett’s 1999 autofictive tome Too Many Men, arrives in cinemas this week. (By the way, Fry quotes a movie at one point during the interview, and even if we gave you a thousand guesses at what it’s from we reckon you probably still wouldn’t get it.)

Between the interviews then, you’ll find Chris — now mercifully free of his gammy leg (it’s better, and has not in fact been amputated) — back in the pod booth, running rings around Helen O’Hara and James Dyer (literally, not metaphorically) as the team discuss the best sunglasses in the movies. There’s also a tonne of movie news to digest, including the new Paddington In Peru trailer and the potentially perilous state of being for the MCU’s Blade after another director of the ill-fated project bit the dust (metaphorically, not literally) this week. And as if that ain’t enough, Chris, Helen, and James tackle Inside Out 2, Freud’s Last Session, Ama Gloria, and the year’s barmiest film, Sasquatch Sunset, in the reviews section. After all, a Sasquatch has gotta know its limitations.

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