Ep. 603 - News of the World (GUEST: Drew McWeeny from Formerly Dangerous)
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4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
It’s the dawn of a new era in America. David, Devindra, and Jeff are joined by Drew McWeeny (@DrewMcWeeny), writer of newsletter Formerly Dangerous, to discuss the new film News of the World. Does this reunion of director Paul Greengrass and actor Tom Hanks create the same buzz as Captain Phillips?
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News of the World
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Film Test. |
| 0:22.3 | I am David Chen and joining us today is DaVinger Hardowar. |
| 0:27.1 | I am the news captain now. |
| 0:29.1 | Jeff Kanana. |
| 0:31.1 | I am always grateful to be here but today I have particularly sincere thanks. |
| 0:38.3 | And also joining us today is the editor in chief of formerly dangerous, a very cool newsletter |
| 0:45.5 | Drew McQueenie. |
| 0:46.9 | Thank you for joining us today. |
| 0:50.1 | As always formerly dangerous and deeply confused. |
| 0:55.0 | So Drew you are somebody who as your newsletter title indicates was formerly dangerous but |
| 1:02.9 | now you are apparently slightly less dangerous these days. |
| 1:06.4 | You're writing a newsletter which I read fairly religiously. |
| 1:10.6 | Tell us about it. |
| 1:12.8 | It is my chance to try to reclaim how I write about movies because I did it for a website |
| 1:20.8 | for 20 years and in doing so went through a lot of evolution of the way the online film |
| 1:28.5 | conversation worked and saw it sort of come to a really great place and then saw it |
| 1:35.5 | get co-opted my opinion and really got frustrated by it. |
| 1:39.4 | And so the newsletter format allows me to just write directly for the people that are |
| 1:43.6 | interested. |
| 1:44.6 | I do some freebies a couple of times a month but for the most part everything I write |
| 1:48.5 | is for subscribers and being behind that paywall really kind of set me free both format wise |
| 1:55.5 | and I don't have to worry about clickbait at all. |
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