Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (Pa...

On this week's episode, the boys chat with Chris and Lizzie, the hosts of the What Went Wrong podcast about why Hollywood produces so many "twin films," movies that have very similar concepts and that release within a year of each other. They also debate whether A Bug's Life or A ...  Show more

A Kubrickian schedule! Two months of shooting in the mud! Roundworm, tuberculosis, and mass-method acting! What are the building blocks of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic jidaigeki film, Seven Samurai? Chris and Lizzie learn of Kurosawa's battles with censors (Japanese and American ...  Show more

In May 1999 hordes of Star Wars fans swarmed movie theatres for an event that many thought might never happen. It was release day for a movie they had spent the past 15 years longing for, but all the excitement soon turned to confusion, disappointment and in some cases even anger ...  Show more

On this REPOSTED episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha record a new introduction for their episode on STAR WARS: EPISODE VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI in honor of the passing of James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader. Steve and John explore James Earl Jones's perfo ...  Show more

On this REPOSTED episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha record a new introduction for their episode on STAR WARS: EPISODE V - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK in honor of the passing of James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader. Steve and John explore James Earl Jones's p ...  Show more

We've gone bonus content mad on the Empire Podcast this week! Every day this week, we'll bring you a brand new pod, culminating in Friday's mothership. And we kick things off with this very fun, and compact, commute-sized conversation with two of the key figures behind last year' ...  Show more