Ep. 519 - Aladdin (GUEST: Aisha Harris from The New York Times)
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The Filmcast
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
When Devindra is away, David and Jeff come out to watch the latest Disney live-action Aladdin. Together with Aisha Harris from the New York Times, the cast find out whether the remake live up to the original 1992 version.
Read Aisha Harris’s article in the New York Times on why the reiteration doesn’t make Disney more progressive, and Anisa Khalifa’s post on why the casting can’t solve its flawed foundations.
Check out Jeff Cannata’s new D&D show Dungeon Run. Listen to David’s other podcast Write Along with writer C. Robert Cargill Devindra's new podcast Know More Tech, answering your question on the latest gadgets. Subscribe to David's Youtube channel at Davechensky.
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Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What We’ve been Watching (~10:00)
David - The Nightingale, Booksmart, The Perfection
Jeff - The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!
Feature (~38:00)
Aladdin (feature review contain spoilers)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash film cast. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm David Chen and with me today is Jeff Kanata. |
| 0:26.4 | And welcome to the show. |
| 0:27.4 | I think your hardware is not joining us this week. |
| 0:29.6 | He is off at Computex. |
| 0:31.7 | So it's just going to be me and Jeff for this opening segment where we talk about what |
| 0:34.3 | we've been watching. |
| 0:35.4 | But then we are going to have Aisha Harris from the New York Times join us for our review |
| 0:39.9 | of Guy Richie's Aladdin. |
| 0:42.1 | Really looking forward to that. |
| 0:43.3 | It's a great discussion. |
| 0:45.4 | But before we get to any of that, you can find more of our episodes at Slash Film Cast.com. |
| 0:48.6 | You can also email us at Slash Film Cast at gmail.com. |
| 0:54.0 | And some of you did email us at Slash Film Cast at gmail.com. |
| 0:56.9 | And I want to read a couple of emails. |
| 0:59.0 | So let's start with this email recommendation from Zach from Boston, Massachusetts, my |
| 1:04.3 | old stopping grounds who writes in the Slash Film Cast at gmail.com. |
| 1:08.0 | Hey guys, have you had a chance to see the Hulu original, the act? |
| 1:12.5 | It's the true story of a mother and her young daughter with countless physical ailments. |
| 1:16.4 | Childhood cancer which left her bald. |
| 1:18.1 | She uses wheelchairs of your allergies to common things like sugar, unable to eat orally |
| 1:21.9 | and must use a port in her stomach. |
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