Ep. 702 - Babylon

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

David, Jeff and Devindra discuss why it might be worth paying attention to the Royals, praise Aubrey Plaza's work in Emily The Criminal, and get mildly disappointed by Violent Night. Then, they dive into Damien Chazelle's newest film Babylon.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: The 10 Biggest Hollywood Fiascos of 2022
Devindra - Best stuff to binge over the holidays
Jeff - DLC Favorite Games of the Year 2022

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~20:00)
Jeff - Violent Night
David - All Quiet on the Western Front, Harry and Meghan,
Devindra - Emily the Criminal, White Noise

Featured Review (~1:03:20)
Babylon
SPOILERS (~1:26:23)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast a podcast about movies. I am David Chen and
0:24.9	hello Mr Cameron it's Damien Chazelle I have a weird question for you joining me today is
0:31.7	DaVindra Hardowar we come to this place for the magic of drugs drinks and debauchery baby
0:39.5	and Jeff Kanada three hours and ten minutes is the new 90 minutes
0:46.0	those are of course all vague and oblique references to the fact that today in the film cast we're
0:49.8	going to be reviewing Babylon the new Damien Chazelle movie that is in theaters right now it didn't
0:56.5	do very well but that is not necessarily a testament of its quality we'll be discussing it here on
1:01.9	the podcast of course before that we got some what we've been watching for you and some film
1:05.9	news we're going to discuss you can find us online at thefilmcast.com email us at slashfilmcast
1:10.8	at email.com and find us on tiktok twitter and youtube at the filmcast pod except on tiktok where we
1:18.3	are just the film cast. So before we get to any of that though let's talk about a couple of film
1:24.2	news items as I mentioned now say what you will about the film cast and many people have I mean
1:29.4	over time I'm just going to say people have said things about the film cast like we're annoying
1:35.2	quote I'm doing air quotes right now we're annoying our voices are grating our opinions are
1:42.6	uninformed you know or the film cast what's that mm-hmm yeah you know people say all those things
1:49.5	but you know what they can't say guys you know what they cannot say about the film cast
1:54.6	that we don't have our finger on the pulse of what's happening in the movies that we don't
1:58.6	have a finger on the pulse of what's happening in home video releases in the aid because literally
2:03.4	last week here on the film cast I decried nay blasted the the Warner media's decision to remove
2:18.5	shows like Westworld and and other shows off of HBO Max and I wondered hey what's going to happen
2:25.5	with beloved TV shows that are only available in HBO Max right now like station 11 yeah you cannot
2:31.0	purchase we basically called up Warner Brothers and was like this will not stand mm-hmm the film cast
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