Ep. 808 - Presence

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

David and Jeff assess this year’s Oscar nominations, sing and dance their way through Emilia Pérez, and return to a galaxy far far away with Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Then they are joined by Devindra for their review of Steven Soderbergh’s latest film Presence.

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Weekly Plugs
David - DaveChenPoker.com
Jeff - We Have Concerns - Gut Health Among Friends

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:21:54)
David - Emilia Pérez, The Girl with the Needle
Jeff - Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Dog Man, Bad Sisters, The Devil’s Plan

Featured Review (~01:03:28)
Presence
SPOILERS (~01:23:54)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome to the filmcast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.6	I'm David Chen, and I think Steven Soderberg's presence is a present.
0:30.5	Joining me today is Jeff Kanata.
0:32.3	I'm only here because Dave Chen told me there'd be presents.
0:40.0	Welcome to the film cast.
0:41.7	It's just me and Jeff Kanata for the first part of the episode,
0:45.4	D'Vingra had a scheduling conflict, but he will be with us for the review of
0:51.4	Steven Sautilberg's presence that we're going to do today here on the podcast.
0:55.8	I do want to mention that that is the thing we recorded first.
0:59.6	So you'll hear what I mean when we get to that part of the show.
1:04.1	But anyway, today on the film cast, we're going to be discussing some Oscar nominations that happened last week.
1:11.4	We got some what I've been watching, weekly plugs, and then, of course, our main review.
1:15.0	You can find more episodes of this podcast, at thefilmcast.com.
1:17.4	Email us at slash filmcast at gmail.com.
1:20.5	Find us on patreon.com slash film podcasts where you can support us for ad-free episodes and exclusive afterdarks.
1:27.7	But first, Jeff Kanata, let's talk about some emails.
1:30.7	We got some emails to discuss at slash filmcast at gmail.com.
1:36.3	So Jeff Kanata, last week on the podcast, we talked about Wolfman.
1:40.8	We did.
1:42.3	A movie that none of us liked.
1:48.5	That's right. And I wanted to read a few emails we got about this movie uh and uh people reacting to our review of it sean writes into slash from cascima
1:56.1	com i was sorry to hear that wolfman is disappointing i was hoping for a little wolf horror moment after watching another recent
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