Ep. 834 - The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Devindra is on vacation this week so to kick things off, David and Jeff return to the putting green with Happy Gilmore 2, head to space with Gattaca, and push their endurance to the limit with The Chase. Then, Devindra joins the show as the trio step into the next phase of the MCU with The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

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What we've been watching (~00:17:31)
David - Happy Gilmore 2, Gattaca
Jeff - Happy Gilmore 2, The Chase, The Devil’s Plan S2

Featured Review (~01:08:26)
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
SPOILERS (~01:38:06)

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome to the film cast.
0:10.0	It's the film cast.
0:11.0	Hey!
0:14.0	It's the film cast.
0:19.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the filmcast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.3	I'm David Chen and this month you can get Pedro Pascal as a romantic interest,
0:29.7	Pedro Pascal as an annoying liberal, and Pedro Pascal as a scientist, we truly live in a Pedro Pascal's.
0:37.1	Joining me today is Jeff Kadana. Gotta say, I'm pretty excited to review F4 this week, but it just, it seems like only a few weeks ago we reviewed F1. I know, right? My, how time flies. Seriously, I don't even remember F2 and 3.
0:57.7	Those are, of course, vague and oblique references to the fact that today in the podcast,
1:01.4	we're going to be reviewing the Fantastic Four first steps.
1:05.8	Diffinger Hardrow will be joining us for that review, but we did record it early.
1:11.4	And we made it available for patrons at patreon.com slash film podcast. I tried to make a bunch of reviews this summer available early for patrons.
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1:22.0	Patreon.com slash film podcast.
1:24.7	You can find more episodes of this show at thefilmcast.com.
1:27.1	Email us at slash filmcast at gcast.com. Email us at slash
1:28.1	filmcast at gmail.com. Today, we are going to be discussing some what we've been watching,
1:32.9	as well as some weekly plugs before we get to our F4 review. But first, let's go through a few
1:41.3	emails. Let's,
1:45.0	every week people send in some emails at slash filmcastachemail.com.
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