Ep. 816 - Novocaine

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff head to outer space with Ash, clock into the second season of Severance, and dig into the arresting power of Adolescence. Then they grit their teeth and see how much pain they can withstand with Novocaine.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on Google’s Pixel 9a
Jeff - DLC 592 with Jesse Norris

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:28:07)
David - Ash, CHAOS: The Manson Murders, American Murder: Gabby Petito
Devindra - Severance S2
Jeff - Adolescence

Featured Review (~01:06:06)
Novocaine
SPOILERS (~01:17:35)

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1:12.9	It's the film cast.
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1:23.5	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies.
1:38.5	I'm David Chen, and you know, we used to get an action movie like Novocaine once every two week in theaters, but nowadays, uh, the movie stars a TSA agent and Jason Bateman's trying to release a chemical weapon and it's called Carry On and it's streaming on Netflix.
1:40.9	Joining me today is Devendra Hardewar.
1:44.1	For the love of God, don't let Jack Quaid be the next Wolverine.
1:47.8	And Jeff Kanata.
1:49.8	I'm Jeff Kanata,
1:53.3	and I have whatever the opposite of Novocaine is.
1:57.1	Everything hurts.
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