Ep. 581 - Boys State (GUEST: Roxana Hadadi)

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Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

David weighs the risk and reward to see Tenent in theater while Jeff raves about #SLASHTAG, the hashtag used to recommend movies to the whole gang.

For the feature of the week, David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Roxana Hadadi to review Boys State. See what this winner of Sundance Documentary Grand Jury, directed and produced by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine, has to says about our politics today.

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Weekly Plugs

David - Culturally Relevant interview with Jesse Moss and David gives his wife a haircut

Devindra - Republic City Dispatch returns! Looking back at Book 1 of Korra

Jeff - Cameo going strong!

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~11:30)

Jeff - Ted Lasso, John Was Trying to Contact Aliens, High Score, Lovecraft Country, SummerSlam

David - The Vow (A Nexium Story), Married at First Sight vs. Love on the Spectrum

Devindra - Lovecraft Country, Tesla

Feature (~1:02:00)

Boys State
Spoilers (~1:32:00)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast.
0:22.5	I am David Jen and joining me today are, Divendra Harnowar and Jeff Kanada.
0:27.9	Stay on the podcast, we are going to discuss what is going on in the world of film right
0:32.0	now before moving on to some of what we have been watching.
0:34.9	We have a lot of what we have been watching to discuss today.
0:37.1	And then we are going to conclude with an in-depth review.
0:39.0	This week we are going to be discussing Boy State, a new documentary that is on Apple TV
0:44.5	Plus.
0:45.9	We got Roxana Hadadi joining us for that review, really excited about that.
0:50.8	And I should just say, if you haven't seen Boy State, if you haven't heard of Boy State
0:54.6	the movie, check it out.
0:56.2	It is really, really compelling as you are going to hear us talk about.
0:59.3	So yeah, if you bought an Apple product any time in the last year, I think, right?
1:05.2	Like any Apple hardware product, you can get Apple TV Plus for free.
1:09.2	So we are still in that window.
1:12.3	So check out Boy State.
1:14.5	It is available right now in Apple TV Plus.
1:16.7	Okay.
1:18.5	Before we get to what we have been watching, a quick word about what has been going on
1:22.5	the last week, just from a movie perspective.
1:27.3	Tenet.
1:28.3	Gents.
	...

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