Ep. 846 - Black Phone 2

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

David and Devindra dive into the life of a titan with Mr. Scorsese, return to the world of foreign intrigue with season three of The Diplomat, and investigate workplace weirdness in The Chair Company. Then they accept a deadly call with Black Phone 2.

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Weekly Plugs
David - davechentravels.com
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on Apple’s new M5 devices

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:40:41)
David - Mr. Scorsese, Good Boy, Task
Devindra - The Diplomat S3, The Chair Company, Frankenstein

Featured Review (~01:16:35)
Black Phone 2
SPOILERS (~01:24:31)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the filmcast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.8	I'm David Chen, and I'm looking forward to talking about the new movie starring the well-known
0:29.0	actors Ethan Honk and Mason Tucan.
0:35.3	Nice callbacks.
0:36.7	That was so stupid. Nice callbacks. That was so stupid.
0:37.7	Nice callbacks. Joining me today's...
0:39.3	Real ones know what you're referring to.
0:41.2	Real ones...
0:41.7	That's called... Yeah, that's called a callback.
0:43.1	That's called continuity on the podcast, you know?
0:46.3	Joining me today is Divinger Hardwar.
0:48.2	This movie is very different than when the Hawk calls me in my dreams.
0:53.0	It's just going to be me and DaVer today jeff is away traveling as i've
0:56.9	mentioned in the past few weeks uh yeah travel month for us all all it's travel month for the film cast
1:02.5	every one of us is doing a little bit of traveling this month and so you're going to hear different
1:06.3	configurations of the podcast but uh... divinger you just were traveling, right? Where were you? I was just traveling.
1:12.0	I just traveled to New York to see my wife's family and we all just like brought the kids. We had like
1:16.2	a mini birthday for my daughter. So that was fun. If anybody is traveling right now, just, you know,
1:21.5	give yourself time. Be gracious with the TSA people. They are getting a little crazy. I'll tell you,
1:27.1	because they're all
1:28.3	working without any guaranteed pay at this point, but I definitely had some fun conversations
1:33.1	with TSA. I did, you know, I went to L.A a couple weeks ago, and I did say thank you. I made
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