Ep. 589 - The Trial of the Chicago 7

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Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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David, Devindra, and Jeff review the Netflix movie The Trial of the Chicago 7. The film, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, tells the story of the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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Feature (~1:10:30)
The Trial of the Chicago 7

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, David Chenier, just a quick note to say that in this episode where we discuss the trial of the Chicago 7,
0:06.2	please just assume that we are going to be talking spoilers for the film right at the beginning of the review.
0:11.9	So there's no spoiler section, we are just going to get into spoilers pretty early on in the review,
0:16.4	so keep that in mind and hope you enjoy the episode. Thanks.
0:30.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast. I am David Chen and with me today are David DraHarnowar and Jeff Kanada.
0:48.0	Welcome to the show everyone on today's episode of the podcast. Well, we got some special announcements we want to tell you about early on in the podcast.
0:57.1	We're going to move on into some what we've been watching, follow that up with some weekly plugs and then conclude with an in depth review.
1:04.1	This week we'll be discussing the trial of the Chicago 7, the newest film written and directed by Mr. Aaron Sorkin.
1:11.1	So that is what we got in store on the podcast today. Yeah, we've been to a dry spell Dave on on movies and it looks like, you know, the rains are a common when it rains.
1:22.4	So for the last few weeks, it's been actually quite a struggle to figure out what we're going to be reviewing and starting this week today, this episode, it's there's tons of movies coming out like so many that we're going to have difficulty actually covering them all.
1:39.4	So yeah, feel free to continue to use hashtag slash tag to let us know what you'd like us to cover what you think we should keep an eye out for.
1:48.4	But yeah, it's going to be tough can be tough to choose one movie per week. Champagne problems. We got champagne problems all of a sudden.
1:56.4	You know, one of my favorite lines and movies is that you'd appreciate Jeff Kanada is the 25th hour Edward Norton Spike Lee movie.
2:04.4	Yeah.
2:06.4	What is it? Champagne from my real friends real real pain for my sham friends. That's what it's pretty good. That's a good one.
2:15.4	It's a good one. It's a good one. So anyway, before we get to any of that today, which one am I? Which category am I?
2:23.4	We have some, it's a mystery.
2:25.4	Okay.
2:26.4	We have some big news folks and we talked about this a little bit on last week's episode of the podcast.
2:32.4	But we are launching a patreon.
2:35.4	Yeah.
2:36.4	We're launching a patreon.
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