Ep. 809 - Companion

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff take a virtual visit to the Sundance Film Festival to check out Zodiac Killer Project and Atropia, and catch up with everyone’s favorite web slinger in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Then they look into an ghastly near future with Companion.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Davechenpoker.com
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: DeepSeek blows up the AI world
Jeff - Jeff’s Cameo Page

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:16:45)
David - Sundance: Zodiac Killer Project, Predators, André Is an Idiot
Devindra - Sundance: Atropia, Sorry, Baby, The Things You Kill
Jeff - Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, You’re Cordially Invited, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Featured Review (~01:14:40)
Companion
SPOILERS (~01:25:36)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast.
0:09.0	I'm David Chen, Hello, everyone, and welcome to the filmcast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.6	I'm David Chen, and boy, Sophie Thatcher has had bad luck over the course of the last year
0:29.1	hanging out with men in remote houses.
0:31.6	Don't do it.
0:33.2	Joining me today is Dividur Hardwar.
0:35.3	This movie made me realize we're not seeing enough Jack Quaid these days, guys.
0:38.9	Not in other movies coming out soon, not in several TV shows.
0:42.1	I really would love to see more of Jack Wade's punchable face.
0:46.2	And Jeff Kanata.
0:47.7	I'm just here to celebrate 2025's first fully mulleted movie character.
0:54.9	Wow.
0:56.3	Wow, those are all actually legitimately vague and oblique references to the fact that today on the podcast.
1:02.3	What a mullet is.
1:04.2	To the fact that today on the podcast, we're going to be reviewing companion.
1:08.7	Really excited to hear what you guys think about this movie.
1:11.5	You can find more episodes of this podcast
1:12.9	at the Filmcast.com.
1:13.9	Email us at slash filmcast at gmail.com.
1:16.2	Of course, we got some,
1:17.1	we've been watching for you,
1:18.2	Divindra Hardor and I,
	...

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