The 25th December may have been and gone, but that doesn't mean that Christmas is over just yet folks — and while Father Christmas enjoys a bloomin' lie down, the team here at Empire still have a gift or two in our collective sack to dole out. All of which is to say that the time has come for the Empire Podcast Review Of The Year 2024, a nearly three-hour-long episode of the pod in which Chris Hewitt, James Dyer, and Helen O'Hara convene to offer their wit, wisdom, and other such verbal responses to the past twelve months in the world of cinema.
We've got listener questions on the best sub-90-minute movies of the year, 2024's weepiest pictures, and the standout scenes in the naffest films (*cough* 'Space Oddity' in Venom: The Last Dance *cough*). We've got rankings of the best movies of 2024, the best performances, and the best performances specifically in Dune: Part Two. We've got reflections on the best interviews the pod team have had this year, on the best cinematic moments of this year, of the best musical moments in movies this year. If it happened in 2024, cinematically speaking, then you can be damn sure it's being reviewed here. What we have got is, essentially, three big ol' movie lovers gathered in a pod booth, chewing the fat and breaking down one heck of a year in the world of film. There's a lot of laughs, a lot of chat, a lot of fun, some plugging for Helen O'Hara's two (yes, two!) new books coming in 2025, and even occasionally some discerning film criticism — yes, seriously! As the credits roll on 2024, let us be your year end's closing suite, your post-credit sting on 2024 if you will. And, as ever, please do enjoy — we'll be back in the new year with Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, and Nicholas Hoult as we get set to do this all again in 2025.
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