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Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast. I'm David Chenin with me are

David from Hardware and Jeff Canada. Welcome to the show what we're going to do here on today's podcast is we're going to have a very brief what we've been watching segment and then move on into a Slash Film Court segment, which is the segment whereby we adjudicate a film related dilemma. You can always email us on Slash Filmcast.com and then finally conclude with an in-depth review of Velvet Buzzsaw the new Dan Gilroy movie that's out on Netflix right now April Wolf Film Critics going to join us for that

review of Velvet Buzzsaw and then if that's not enough Slash Filmcast goodness for you we're going to follow it up with an after dark episode about burning the thriller question mark drama question mark starring Steve Yun and also Dan Gvazdin is going to join us for that part of the episode.

So lots to get to on this week's episode of the podcast lots and store for you stay tuned you can find more episodes at Slash Filmcast.com email us at Slash Filmcast.com but let's get to what we've been watching David in your heart or what have you been watching this week.

I've been checking out Russian doll the new show on Netflix starring Natasha Leon and co-created by Natasha Leon Amy Polar and Leslie headland and you may if you saw Bachelorette I think back in 2013 or so like she directed that movie and wrote that so she's been somebody I've been keeping an eye on for a while and I know she's been doing TV.

This show is like it's kind of tough to describe I will say it is groundhog day-esque and it starts Natasha Leon and the entire thing is about her trying to determine why this crazy thing is happening to her on a drunken night.

I think what really sells the show though is is basically Natasha Leon being you know a badass being a reverent being hilarious I think this show works as a great comedy but also like as it goes on i'm about two episodes away from the end it's only eight episodes.

Yeah it's trying to dive into deeper and more meaningful stuff but mostly i'm struck by how much fun this show is to watch we started it and before I knew we were watching you know half the season it's only four you know it's four half an hour episodes goes by really quickly because it's just a movie length but it's actually yeah we saw I saw four so I saw four half hour episodes got it.

Yeah you just both through that real quick so yeah it's an easy watch it's a ton of fun if you've you know appreciate Natasha Leon it's definitely worth watching but I also think it's a really fun mix up of the groundhog day formula and also it's a to me it's a real reminder of like how how lasting that concept is like we've just seen it redone so many times and I think it's just going to continue indefinitely which kind of makes sense but it's a great conceits and I think that the next thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to do it.

Yeah the show's just a ton of fun but what did you think Dave so I saw the first two episodes of Russian doll I thought the first episode was great I thought it's like you said it is a a concept that I stood the test of time there's many movies like it in the past I'm thinking obviously groundhog day 12-01 with Jonathan Silverman there's another movie I'm going to make sure on that that that sure okay yeah.

And I thought the first episode was really enjoyable and then the second episode really kind of almost like I didn't get past the second episode because I'm like I don't know if I'm going to keep watching this because when you have a groundhog day style show or movie or whatever there's always a moment when the protagonist says am I crazy I'm what's going on with me here you know and they just try to figure out like what is actually happening what are the physical

physics and mechanics of what's actually happening and in a movie that part of the movie is like you know 10 minutes right and this show stretch that out into like half an hour where the characters just like what's going on and I just like the episode to felt like it did not advance the plot whatsoever and I'm just like I don't know if I can deal with the entire series being like this but you've made a

episode for it's it's not it's not all like that you suggest like I will say this year it kind of makes sense why she's going on this huge exploration of like why this whole thing is happening because she's also like you know she she's kind of a heavy drinker she takes all sorts of drugs like conceivably it could be anything in her system that's kind of making this happen psychologically so it's like you know it's a scientific method and she explores all those possibilities in episode two right yeah yes but speaking of movies like this you know I had another I

watched another really weird time bending movie this past week that I that also was a bit rough in my opinion and it was have you guys sort of this movie called plus one I wrote this I do this other

podcast about writing and the creative process with C. Robert Cargill it's called right along at right along podcast calm that's W.R.I.T.E.

and the question that we came we discussed this week was how do you make a low budget movie that takes place in one location that's like just a few characters right like you can't afford that many actors you can't afford that many locations like what do you do and his suggestion which I thought was very smart was you basically make a film that has a super high concept sci-fi premise big idea

kind of thing and that way the special effect is happening in the audience's head right that like the audience is being like oh we're not watching people like in a in a in a shack behind the filmmakers house we're watching two people have this

interaction in space you know or whatever whatever it is right like that that you have something so high concept that like the audience is doing work to build the world for you

and it also works you know doesn't have to be sci-fi too you know if you think of a movie like reservoir dogs it's basically yeah you know there's this grand action heist thing that all happens in your imagination that's right because all the characters are in this you know very cheap one location but they talk about what just happened out there in the crazy heist great example another example we brought up with the one I love which is the mark two plus Elizabeth Moss

film directed by Charlie McDowell you know it's the majority of it is just those two actors and there is like a very interesting sci-fi premise to it that kind of yeah it's very interesting it allows those two actors to kind of strut their stuff

anyway so another movie I watched was plus one this movie that Cargo recommended I did not like that movie but I liked the concept of it which is that a temporal event

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