Ep. 852 - Train Dreams

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff make an everlasting decision with Eternity, step through Shaker history in The Testament of Ann Lee, and swing for greatness with Marty Supreme. Then they hop the tracks for a new life with Train Dreams.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: Matt Goldberg’s Pluribus recaps
Devindra - Subscribe to the Engadget Podcast
Jeff - DLC 628 with Jacob Geller

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:34:42)
David - Eternity, Rental Family, Zootropolis 2 (in English)
Devindra - The Testament of Ann Lee, Lurker
Jeff - Marty Supreme, The Chair Company S1 Finale

Featured Review (~01:24:44)
Train Dreams
SPOILERS (~01:43:59)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.6	I'm David Chen, and I'm of the opinion that Train Dreams would be a better film if it switched titles with no country for old men.
0:31.9	Prove me wrong, folks.
0:34.0	Prove me wrong.
0:35.1	Wait, so no country has to be called Train Dreams?
0:37.2	Exactly. Yes. Think about it. Does work. It doesn't work. Think about it. Think about all the trains in that movie, guys. I actually did a, I looked up the, for this joke, I went to find the script of No Country for Old Men, and I searched for the word train in the script, and it did not
0:54.6	appear a single time, unfortunately. So the joke just does not work, sadly. All that said, Dividur Hardware.
0:59.5	So it's a Dave Chinjoke then.
1:03.5	Joining me today is Dividra Hardware.
1:05.7	Finally, we've got Owen Lars and Jinnar or so in a movie together.
1:10.0	And Jeff Kinnata.
1:11.6	It's called Train Dreams and there's not a single Bindle in this movie?
1:17.0	Zero out of ten.
1:19.3	Those are vague and oblique references to the fact that today of the podcast, we're going to be discussing the Netflix film Train Dreams.
1:27.4	Of course, that comes after we're going to be discussing
1:30.2	some what we've been watching, a little bit of film news, and some emails at slashfilmcast
1:34.5	at gmail.com. You can find more episodes of the show at the filmcast.com. Email us at slash
1:39.2	filmcast at gmail.com. Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving, a happy Black Friday and a Cyber Monday.
2:00.9	Jeff, I know you had a harrowing travel story, which we'll discuss this week's After Dark. But other than that, how is everyone's Thanksgiving? Did you just have a good Thanksgiving? Any highlights? Good turkey. Good family. I got to squeeze in a bunch of movies that I wanted to watch too.
2:01.4	Nice. It's been a good movie watching over here.
2:03.2	Yeah, I think I watched like seven movies of the course last few days, so that was good.
2:06.9	I wish I could have watched more movies.
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