Ep. 836 - Weapons

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff take shelter from the 2025 remake of War of the Worlds, hunt down Xenomorphs in Alien: Earth, and navigate friendship with the second season of Platonic. Then they investigate the high-concept horror of Zach Cregger’s latest film, Weapons.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: An Interview with the winner of Wings of Voice from The Rehearsal
Devindra - Ask Engadget: What to do if you’re still on Windows 10
Jeff - Jeff’s Cameo Page

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:02:01)
David - War of the Worlds (2025), Alien: Earth, Dangerous Animals
Devindra - Alien: Earth, King of the Hill S14, StuGo
Jeff - Platonic S2, WWE: Unreal

Featured Review (~01:20:07)
Weapons
SPOILERS (~01:38:22)

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0:24.6	For the rest of time.
0:25.1	Yes.
0:25.5	Okay.
0:25.8	Good. Yeah. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the film cast, a
0:42.3	film cast, it's the film cast,
0:45.3	it's the film cast, and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies.
0:52.3	I'm David Chen, and I hate it when Thanos and Silver Surfer fight.
0:58.0	Joining me today is Davinja Hardewar.
1:00.2	This is why we need to outlaw the Naruto run.
1:05.0	And Jeff Kanata.
1:07.0	I did not realize how safe Dave Chen is that he shaves his head until watching this movie.
1:20.6	Okay, okay, I get it.
1:22.7	It took you a second to get mine, Jeff, but I saw the look of realization on your face
1:26.8	when you figured out what I was talking about. But those are all vague and oblique references to the fact that today on the podcast, we're going to be reviewing weapons. New Zach Craigor movie, the guy who is behind Barbarian. And, God, it has been the summer of Warner Brothers, man. Like, they have been crushing it at the box office.
1:44.6	They've had, I think, what is it, four or six, number one movies in a row.
1:50.6	Minecraft movie, Superman, you know, like all these movies.
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