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Ep. 542 - Doctor Sleep (GUEST: Patrick Klepek from Waypoint)

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4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Patrick Klepek, senior reporter at Waypoint, to talk about the politics of Terminator: Dark Fate and the digital resurrection of James Dean. For their feature review, the cast return to the Overlook Hotel in Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining. Does the belated follow-up film live up to iconic original?

Read about the backlash against the James Dean casting in the Hollywood Reporter.

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Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we’ve been watching (~11:20) .
Patrick Klepek - Marianne on Netflix .
David - OITNB: Season 7, Lobby Baby, Greener Grass, Rick and Morty S4 .
Jeff - Living with Yourself .
Devindra - Castle Rock S2, The end of the F***in world S2 .

Feature (~56:00)
Doctor Sleep
Spoilers (~1:20:00)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:24.3

Jeff Canada and joining us today he is a senior reporter for Waypoint, a

0:31.2

video game website that does not shy away from strong advocacy for various

0:35.3

physicians. Patrick, Clepik, Patrick, welcome to the Slash Filmcast. How are you

0:39.3

doing this evening? This is weirding me out. My wife is going to have a meltdown

0:44.4

when she realizes I'm on a podcast with David Chen. Oh wow. And the fact that I'm

0:48.3

doing this right now, she's going to be so deeply embarrassed when she starts

0:52.7

listening to this and it is glorious. This is a high point for me.

0:56.7

Well, I have actually admired Patrick's work from way back when he was actually

1:03.7

working at one-up and he was a frequent guest on the podcast One-up Yours, which was hosted

1:09.0

by Garnet Lee and that podcast was a big inspiration for the Slash Filmcast. So now that Patrick

1:16.5

is on the Slash Filmcast, the snake has finally eaten itself and we can shut this whole thing down.

1:23.2

Thanks for having me. Yeah, but it's it's a delight to have you and of course you can check out

1:27.0

Patrick's work at waypoint.vice.com. We're delighted to have Mon today on the podcast. We're going to

1:33.2

talk about a few things. We got some well-ibon watching for you. We also have an in-depth review

1:38.4

later of Dr. Sleep, the new Stephen King Slash Mike Flanagan Slash Shining Sequel

1:47.2

movie. It's kind of a movie that has to serve free purposes. It has to be a sequel to both

1:53.2

Stephen King's book, Stanley Kubrick's film and also an adaptation of a novel Dr. Sleep.

1:58.8

So it has a lot to live up to and we will find out how well it did that later on.

2:03.0

Well, Dave, speaking of a lot to live up to, are we going to just gloss right over the fact that

2:09.2

Patrick's wife is a Chenhead? Chenheads. I think they're called Chenofiles actually.

2:14.3

Is what? I don't know. I think you want to work that one.

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