Ep. 819 - Warfare

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 114 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This episode is brought to you courtesy of our sponsors:

BetterHelp - Visit BetterHelp.com/FILMCAST to get 10% off your first month.
Huel - Visit Huel.com/filmcast today and use code filmcast to get 15% off your first order plus a Free Gift.

David, Devindra, and Jeff fall into the Hitchcockian pleasures of Drop, praise the brilliant storytelling of Common Side Effects, and wonder why Hacks doesn't just let the two main leads be friends. Then, it's time to discuss Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's new movie, Warfare.

We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms:

Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: Matt Goldberg’s The Last of Us recaps
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: Pixel 9a review + bracing for tariffs
Jeff - cameo.com/jeffcannata

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:16:05)
David - Drop, G20, The Last of Us S2
Devindra - Last of Us S2, Hacks S4, The Pitt finale
Jeff - Common Side Effects, Your Friends and Neighbors

Featured Review (~01:04:00)
Warfare
SPOILERS (~01:29:15)

Support David's artistic endeavors at his Patreon and subscribe to his free newsletter Decoding Everything. Check out Jeff Cannata’s podcasts DLC and We Have Concerns. Listen to Devindra's podcast with Engadget on all things tech. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com.

Credits:

Our theme song is by Tim McEwan from The Midnight. This episode was edited by Noah Ross who also created our weekly plugs and spoiler bumper music. Our Slashfilmcourt music comes from Simon Harris.
If you’d like advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail [email protected].

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the filmcast, the podcast about movies.
0:23.1	I'm David Chen, and I can't wait until Alex Garland makes a movie that has war in the title
0:28.0	that has something interesting to say about war.
0:31.2	Joining me today's Divinger Hardwar.
0:33.9	Warfare.
0:34.5	Who is it good for?
0:36.1	And Jeff Kanata.
0:37.7	They made a movie called Warfare, and they didn't even cast Michael Dorn in it?
0:45.2	What?
0:46.0	It's a thinker.
0:47.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:48.4	Multiple levels deep on that one.
0:50.9	Anyway, those are vague and oblique references to the fact that today in the podcast, we're
0:54.1	going to be reviewing Warfare, new movie directed by Alex Garland and Raymond Doza.
1:00.5	Should be an interesting conversation, of course. Today on the podcast, before we get to that,
1:05.3	you can, we're going to be talking about some film news. We got some what we've been watching to share with you.
1:09.9	You can find more episodes of this podcast, thefilmcast.com. Email us at slash filmcast at gmail.com. Support the
1:16.1	podcast at patreon.com slash film podcast, where if you were a patron of any level, last week, you
1:22.6	actually got access to our summer movie wager episode. We recorded the episode last week. It was a great time.
1:30.2	I think it's one of our best wager episodes ever. Check it out. And of course, if you're a patron
1:36.0	at patreon.com slash film podcast, you can get it early. Of course, right now, we are in the time
1:41.5	period where you can enter the summer movie wager at the summer movie wager.com to be considered for the leaderboard.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 6 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Filmcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Filmcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.