Ep. 583 - Mulan (GUEST: Nancy Wang Yuen)

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Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

After months of delay, Disney's live-action Mulan finally made its debut on the Disney Plus streaming service (for a premium). David, Devindra, and Jeff talk about their mixed feelings toward the movie with sociologist and author Nancy Wang Yuen.

Read Nancy's review of Mulan here.

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Shownotes (all timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~08:00)
David - You Cannot Kill David Arquette

Devindra - My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service

Jeff - World’s Toughest Race

Weekly Plugs (~43:00)
David - The Coronavirus Diaries

Devindra - Engadget Podcast on NVIDIA’s new GPUs and Intel’s new CPUs (+ Galaxy Z Fold 2)

Jeff - Dungeon Run: The Story So Far

Feature (~50:00)
Mulan
Spoilers (~1:29:00)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast.
0:22.7	I am David Chen and with me are Vinder Hardoward and Jeff Canada.
0:27.8	Welcome to the show everyone. Today on the podcast we got some what we've been
0:32.0	watching for you and then we're going to move on into an in-depth review.
0:35.8	This week we're going to be reviewing the 2020 live action remake of Mulan.
0:41.3	It's just out in theaters right now and is the subject of some controversy that
0:45.7	we'll discuss briefly. Really looking forward to that review. We got Nancy Wong-Yoon
0:50.6	joining us for the discussion so get excited for that but before we get to any
0:56.4	of that first of all just want to say hello guys. How's everything going?
1:01.2	It's going pretty terrible man pretty terrible. Yeah you know I don't I don't I don't
1:07.2	doubt it Jeff but that's that you your your son had a birthday party recently
1:11.0	right? How'd that go? Oh party is a very pre-COVID word to use.
1:16.3	It's a big facsimile of a party now. Yeah he had a birthday and there were decorations.
1:24.1	We got decorations from Amazon. I was a hot wheels themed party. Nice.
1:29.0	And my mom came into town for that which was which was nice. I hadn't seen my mom in six months.
1:33.7	She used to come almost once a month to visit the grandkids and we hadn't seen her in six months
1:37.8	and she drove down and was here for quite a while actually 12 days she leaves tomorrow.
1:44.6	And so that was nice but yeah it was been it's been rough here. There's lots of lots I mean it was
1:53.2	literally yesterday in at my house the LA Times reported a record heat. I was 122 degrees
2:02.6	at my house which has never never been recorded in my area before. So that's fun. That's a
2:09.7	smoke and everything right and the smoke from the fires and
2:15.2	Did you hear about the the plague Jeff? I hear Lake Tahoe has plague. The plague?
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