Ep. 827 - The Phoenician Scheme

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff test their lying skills with the second season of Poker Face and take a swing at greatness with Stick. Then they fly high with Wes Anderson’s latest film The Phoenician Scheme.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Ballerina and Karate Kid Legends reviews
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on the Switch 2 launch + Apple’s WWDC 2025
Jeff - DLC 603 - The Summer of Games special

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:45:41)
David - Mountainhead, 28 Days Later
Devindra - Poker Face S2
Jeff - Stick

Featured Review (~01:15:10)
The Phoenician Scheme
SPOILERS (~01:30:34)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the film cast, a podcast.
0:11.0	I'm David Chen. Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.9	I'm David Chen, and I imagine Wes Anderson discovering Michael Serra is like Oppenheimer
0:28.6	discovering highly enriched uranium for the first time, the ultimate weapon.
0:33.7	Joining me today is Devinger Hardewar.
0:35.9	This movie confirms something we've always known,
0:38.9	Brian Cranston.com.
0:43.1	And Jeff Kanata.
0:44.8	Just curious if either one of you would care for a hand grenade.
0:49.6	Yes, sir.
0:50.5	Thank you kindly.
0:51.5	Those are vague and oblique references
0:53.4	the fact that today in the podcast,
0:54.7	we're going to be reviewing Wes Anderson's newest film, The Phoenician Scheme.
0:59.3	Of course, before that, we got some film news to discuss.
1:04.0	We got a slash film court we're going to do today.
1:06.3	And then some what we've been watching.
1:08.7	A lot of stuff to get to.
1:09.8	You can find more episodes of this podcast at thefilmcast.com.
1:12.3	Email us at slash filmcast at gmail.com.
1:16.2	But before we get to anything,
1:17.5	I do want to provide a little update on a topic that we discussed last week.
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