Ep. 571 - The King of Staten Island

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Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Devindra gets ready for a big move across the country amid the pandemic. David watches The Great while Jeff checks out Hannah Gadsby: Douglas. For the feature review, the cast reluctantly rent The King of Staten Island, the newest Judd Apatow movie starring SNL member Pete Davidson.

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Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~25:00)

David - Dave Chappelle’s 8:46, Quiz, The Great

Devindra - Insecure, I May Destroy You, Normal People

Jeff - Hannah Gadsby: Douglas, The Last Ride, The Hobbit

Feature (~1:04:00)

The King of Staten Island

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast.
0:22.7	I'm David Chen and with me are DaVinci R Hardware and Jeff Canada.
0:27.4	Welcome to the show everyone.
0:28.4	What we got in store for you today on the podcast, some what we've been watching, a lot
0:32.0	of stuff we've been watching recently.
0:33.8	Then we're going to move on into an in-depth review of Judd Apatow's latest movie, The
0:38.2	King of Staten Island, which is available right now on, I think it's called Premium Video
0:43.6	On Demand.
0:45.3	So you can rent it as an at home, for 20 bucks, as an at home theatrical, bringing the
0:53.9	theater to you right now.
0:56.4	And if you had any choice.
0:58.4	When the same as every other streaming thing, it just costs more right now.
1:03.3	When the concept of theaters meant something, bringing the theater home to you at 20 bucks,
1:09.3	but anyway we'll talk about it and whether we thought it was worth the money.
1:13.6	But yeah, that's what's going to happen today here on the Slash Filmcast.
1:18.8	Before we get into any of that though, something we've been doing over the course last few
1:23.4	weeks is just checking, a weekly check-in.
1:26.6	And we've actually got a lot of great feedback about this.
1:28.6	People, I saw a note on Twitter, I think that when I'm checking in with you guys on the
1:34.4	podcast, it's like I'm checking in with our listeners is how they feel.
1:38.5	And I think that's true.
1:42.4	We are living through unprecedented times right now.
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