514 – The Phoenician Scheme, Summer Game Fest ’25, The Life of Chuck
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
Katey, Matt, Da7e and David
4.6 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week, Da7e and David get to weigh in on Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme (and are pretty nice to it, maybe?), then a very tired Patches reports back from this year’s Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles (the only thing happening in that city is Summer Game Fest, right?), then Katey and Da7e talk about the second Stephen King adaptation movie of the year, Mike Flannagan’s The Life of Chuck.
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Marvel Throuple Rom Com
2:59 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 514!! E-mail!
15:13- Tidbit – The Phoenician Scheme
33:06 – Mini-Segment – Summer Game Fest 2025
47:25 – Segment 3 – The Life of Chuck
1:01:35 – Outro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Iron Man Thor and Captain America in honor of The Materialist starring Madam Webb, Dakota |
| 0:07.3 | Johnson, Captain America, Chris Evans, and Reed Richard Pedro Pascal in theaters this weekend, |
| 0:13.3 | make a rom-com throuple with actors who have been in Marvel movies. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Katie Rich, and I'm going through the Wikipedia page for actors who have been in Marvel |
| 0:20.6 | movies, which really scrambled my brain. It's very hard to understand. But so I'm going Rich, and I'm going through the Wikipedia page for actors who have been in Marvel movies, which really scrambled my brain. |
| 0:22.2 | It's very hard to understand. |
| 0:23.7 | So I'm going to actors who have been in Marvel movies, but didn't really get that well used by them. |
| 0:27.7 | So we've got Salma Hayek. |
| 0:29.2 | She's married to an international arms dealer who's played by Tony Leung. |
| 0:32.3 | And then Brian Tyree Henry shows up at this American movie producer who wants to use her richest to finance his next movie. |
| 0:39.2 | Somehow all three of them fall in love. |
| 0:39.6 | Wow. |
| 0:42.4 | That's a, that's a coherent pitch. |
| 0:43.1 | Okay. |
| 0:45.8 | I am Matt Patches. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm going to go with three of Marvel fans' favorite characters. I'm going to go with Harry Stiles, uh, famously played eros or star fox or not |
| 0:57.0 | Star Fox. Oh yeah, Star Fox. No one is Star Fox, isn't it? Star Fox. Charlize their own as Claire. |
| 1:02.7 | We loved her. And, uh, uh, Brett Goldstein as Hercules. Everyone's favorite. Everyone knows that |
| 1:09.5 | happened. From the MCU and they will be starring in post-credit |
| 1:12.7 | scene romance. I love it. I'm David the 7, and I'm picking Sebastian Stan, Michael |
| 1:19.5 | Fastbender, and Angelina Jolie in some sort of high society arrangement where everyone is trying |
| 1:24.7 | to out-glamour each other, because that's what I would like to watch. |
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