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The Filmcast

Ep. 476 - Skyscraper

The Filmcast

The Filmcast

News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss Moviepass's surge pricing, try to figure out what's up with Three Identical Strangers, and get ambivalent about Who Is America. Be sure to read Aja Romano's review of Who Is America, Jen Chaney's review of Who Is America, Kristen Lopez's piece on disability in Skyscraper, and Katy Sullivan's perspective on Skyscraper.

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Shownotes

What We've Been Watching

Jeff - Three Identical Strangers
Devindra - Gemini, Summer of Sam, Bloodsport
David - Who Is America

Featured Review
Skyscraper

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast, the official podcast of Slashfilm.com.

0:24.3

I'm David Chennan with me R, to Vindra Hardware, and Jeff Kanata.

0:28.9

Welcome to the show, people. Today what we're going to be doing is discussing some what we've been watching,

0:33.2

and then we're going to be diving in depth for our featured review this week, which is going to be Dwayne the Rock Johnson's Sky Scraper.

0:42.1

I think Dwayne the Rock Johnson is.

0:45.2

He is the Sky Scraper.

0:46.3

Sky Scraper.

0:47.2

Yeah.

0:47.8

Scraping the sky.

0:49.4

He's sky scraped, for sure, in that movie.

0:52.3

So find more episodes of this podcast at Slashfilmcast.com, email us at Slashfilmcast.com.

0:58.2

And I want to do some follow-up, which we sometimes do at the beginning of our episodes, follow-up on our conversation last week about AMC StubbsAlist and also MoviePass.

1:11.9

So one thing I wanted to mention about AMC, we talked about some of the positives and negatives of the StubbsAlist, which is AMC's new subscription service.

1:20.4

One thing we did not mention that I wanted to make sure we mentioned was that to subscribe to ALIS, you need to subscribe for three months minimum.

1:28.2

Didn't mention that during our pros and cons of AMC StubbsAlist.

1:31.3

So it's like $60 minimum and it's billed monthly.

1:34.7

So it's not like you pay $60 up front all at once.

1:39.3

But it is kind of a commitment.

1:40.5

You can't make an impulse purchase of ALIS.

1:43.5

This is true.

1:44.2

You know what also cost me $60?

1:46.0

What is it?

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