Empire Of The Ants | Episode 377

Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton (The Silver Scream Spook Show) join Jim to discuss Ishiro Honda's classic 1964 Kaiju film "Ghidora, The Three-Headed Monster, starring Yosuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi, Hisaya Ito, Haruo Nakajima, Masanon Shinohara, ...  Show more

Jim talks about a classic Drive-in Horror Move from 1976 - "Squirm," starring Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R A Dow, Fran Higgins, Jean Sullivan, Peter MacLean, and Directed by Jeff Lieberman. A severe thunderstorm knocks down power lines near a small Georgia town causing electr ...  Show more

Hanna-Barbera’s classic cat-and-mouse cartoon series Tom and Jerry kicked off when their debut short, ‘Puss Gets The Boot’, was released by MGM on 10th February, 1940.  But, at that time, the stars of the film were known as ‘Jasper and Jinx’. And studio bosses very nearly canned ...  Show more

Wes Anderson's new film, Asteroid City, has so many incredible actors in it that we were able to send John Nugent to the Cannes Film Festival recently, steal three of them away for interview purposes, and put them back before anyone even noticed. So, in this week's episode of the ...  Show more

Another week, another packed episode of the Empire Podcast, and once again we're joined by some cracking guests. First, Jeffrey Wright, the freshly Oscar-nominated star of American Fiction, joins Chris Hewitt to talk about that movie, his working practices, the film's unusual ori ...  Show more

On this week’s show, the panel is first joined by Slate business and culture writer Nitish Pahwa to discuss Monkey Man, Dev Patel’s dazzling but muddled directorial debut. The ultra-violent action flick stars Patel as Kid, a young man who works his way into a secret brothel for t ...  Show more