Ep. 648 - West Side Story (2021) (GUEST: Caroline Siede)

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4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff talk about the cancellation of Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop. Devindra catches up on theater-going in New York City while David and Jeff cram movies by the end of the year. For the feature review, the cast visits West Side Story, Steven Spielberg’s take on the classic musical.

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Weekly Plugs

David - David chats Halo Infinite with Jeff Grubb

Devindra - Engadget Podcast on the best and worst in tech for 2021

Jeff - cameo.com/jeffcannata

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)

What we've been watching (~12:27)

David - The Harder They Fall, Drive My Car, The Worst Person in the World

Devindra - Drive My Car, Voir, Licorice Pizza, The Matrix Awakens

Jeff - Santa Inc, Nine Days, Drive My Car

Feature (~56:30)
West Side Story(2021)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Filmcast, the podcast about movies.
0:22.0	I'm David Chen and when you're a podcast listener, you're a podcast listener all the way from
0:28.3	your first podcast episode to your last dying day. Joining me today is David Hardowar.
0:34.9	This podcast is brought to you entirely in Greece or speak, Daddy O.
0:39.0	And Jeff Kanada. I just heard an intro from DaVindra.
0:49.9	Beautiful. Welcome to the show everyone. Those are of course all references of the fact that
0:53.7	later on today we're going to be reviewing Steven Spielberg's newest film, West Side Story.
0:58.1	Along with film critic Caroline Sita, it's going to be a great conversation. Look forward to that.
1:03.3	You can find more episodes of this podcast at thefilmcast.com, email us at slashfilmcast at gmail.com.
1:09.2	If you want to support this podcast head on over to patreon.com slash film podcast, sign up for ad free
1:14.0	episodes and or exclusive after darks. Today on the podcast we got some more I've been watching for
1:20.2	you and some weekly plugs before you get to our West Side Story review. A lot of stuff to get to
1:24.6	because I don't know about you guys. I have been cramming. I try to get stuff ready for our
1:30.1	best of 2021 list. So much pressure. So many things. That's time of the year.
1:34.2	Too many things. I'm going to go on a limb. I think this year is going to be probably our most
1:39.2	diverse list is my guess. Like there's going to be most I can guarantee it. Yeah.
1:44.8	Well, yeah, I mean last year was also really weird, right? So yeah, but yeah, I think this
1:48.9	will be pretty weird here. Okay. A couple of other things I want to mention before I get into what
1:53.0	we've been watching. First thing is that on the AFRADARC available at patreon.com slash film podcast,
1:58.8	we are currently doing a matrix retrospective. Today on this week's AFRADARC, we're going to be
2:04.3	discussing the matrix reloaded next week. Revolutions in the lead up to the matrix
2:08.9	resurrections as our main review. So be sure to sign up so you don't miss any of that conversation.
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