Ep. 596 - Mank

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Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

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David, Devindra, Jeff discuss the news that Warner Brothers is putting new releases on HBO Max. What does this move mean for the film industry and movie theaters as a whole? For the feature review, the cast talks about Mank, the highly anticipated David Fincher film out on Netflix right now.

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Weekly Plugs

David - Culturally Relevant interview with Alex Goldstein (and Aneesh, coming soon!)

Devindra - Engadget Podcast: Tech tips for dating and breakups with Dr. Nerdlove

Jeff - We Have Concerns episode about robots and the universal glow

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What you’ve been watching (56:00)

David - My Octopus Teacher, The Painter and the Thief,

Devindra - Tiny Creatures

Jeff - The Goes Wrong Show

Feature (~1:21:15)
Mank
Spoilers (~1:42:48)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast.
0:22.6	I am David Chen and with me are, Divindra Hardower and Jeff Canada.
0:28.0	Welcome to the show everyone today on the podcast.
0:31.3	We got some what we've been watching we want to run through with you.
0:33.5	We got some weekly plugs to give you and then we're going to conclude with an in depth
0:37.7	review of the new David Fintcher film, Mank, which is streaming right now on Netflix.
0:44.3	In the after dark, we got some listener questions we're going to go over and talk about Citizen
0:49.4	Kane, which we've rewatched in preparation for today's episode of a show just to reflect
0:54.5	on how it holds up.
0:56.1	What are thoughts on it today?
0:57.9	Whether it deserves the title of the best film of all time, all that and more on this
1:02.2	week's Slash Filmcast and after dark.
1:05.7	You can find more episodes of this podcast at Slash Filmcast.com, email us at Slash Filmcast.gmail.com.
1:09.7	Before we get to any of that, Jens, we got to talk about the massive, nuclear news that
1:18.2	dropped last week.
1:20.4	This is possibly one of the biggest, not possibly, one of the biggest news film news stories
1:27.4	that has happened.
1:28.9	Certainly since we started doing the podcast, possibly in our lives, which is that last
1:34.3	week HBO Max announced that they would be streaming every single film in the Warner
1:45.5	Brothers theatrical slate for one month in the year 2021.
1:50.8	So basically, the movies will come out in theaters, quote unquote, you know, if theaters
1:55.0	are open or if there are theaters that are available to play them, and at the same time that
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