Vroom vroom! This week’s episode of the Empire Podcast is something of a rarity, as we only have one guest. But what a guest it is! We sent our very own geek queen Helen O’Hara along to talk to Jeff Nichols, director of Take Shelter, Midnight Special, and Mud. Together, they talk the challenges of working with motorcycles and the joys of working with such stars as Jodie Comer! Tom Hardy! Austin Butler! Mike Faist! Michael Shannon! and more on his new 1960s set biker movie, handily called The Bikeriders.

Back in the podbooth, host Chris Hewitt is joined by Helen, James Dyer, and Amon Warmann for another fun-filled episode in which the team discuss this week’s listener question: Which movies deserve to have their visual effects overhauled in special editions? Then, in this week’s bumper movie news section, our colleagues of such lethal cunning discuss who should direct the MCU‘s embattled Blade movie, a slew of upcoming sequels (Smile 2! Uncharted 2! Spaceballs 2!), the box office success of a recently released sequel (Inside Out 2), and newly announced release dates for Jordan Peele’s next movie and Brad Pitt’s F1 film (in which he will *not* play an F1 car). And as if that ain’t enough to be going on with, there’s also reviews of The Bikeriders, tennis doc Federer: Twelve Final Days, insane (or should that be in Seine?) French shark thriller Under Paris, and meta-horror The Exorcism. As ever, please do enjoy.

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