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The Filmcast

Ep. 527 - The Lion King

The Filmcast

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss exciting news out of San Diego Comic-Con, covering everything from Tom Cruise in Top Gun 2, Natalie Portman as Thor, and Patrick Stewart returning as Captain Picard.

For the feature review, the cast collectively ask the existential question "what's the reason of being for this new Lion King movie?"

Read about why even furries think the Cats trailer looks unattractive here. and read about the future of Hollywood under the shadow of Disney here.

Listen and subscribe to David’s newest podcast Culturally Relevant, including his interview with writer/director Lulu Wang about her new film, The Farewell. Check out Jeff Cannata’s 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.

You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook.

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)

What We’ve been Watching (~10:55)
David - Crawl, Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy

Film News (~18:45)
Featured review: The Lion King (with SPOILERS) (~1:13:00)

Credits:
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Film Guests.

0:22.6

I am David Chen and with me are DaVindra Hardowar and Jeff Canada.

0:27.6

Welcome to the show everyone.

0:29.6

What we are going to do here on today's podcast, we got so much in store for you all today.

0:35.5

We are going to start with some watching and then move on into a discussion of a bunch

0:40.2

of news that happened.

0:41.2

Now typically we don't talk about film news anymore.

0:44.1

We leave that to the pros at Slash Film Daily, which you can find at daily.slashfilm.com.

0:49.7

But so much news dropped at Comic Con this week.

0:52.6

It was Comic Con week, we got to talk about it.

0:55.0

We got to talk about it.

0:56.0

We can't not talk about it.

0:58.7

And so I'm actually I'm giddy.

1:01.0

I'm giddy Jeff because there's like so much that I want to cover with you folks.

1:06.2

It's going to be a lot of fun.

1:07.4

So yeah, that's what we got in store for you.

1:10.1

And then we have an in-depth review of John Favreau's The Lion King coming up at the

1:14.4

end of the episode as well.

1:15.6

So that is what is in store on the Slash Film Guests this week.

1:18.2

David, you're Hardowar.

1:19.2

You are broadcasting from in the middle of a tornado of some kind, right?

1:23.7

What's going on in New York right now?

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