Ep. 853 - Jay Kelly

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

David and Jeff discuss the massive industry implications of Netflix's acquisition of Warner Bros., face a dark past in It Was Just an Accident, and try to stay on their feet with Stumble. Then they take a look at a life lived in front of the camera with Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Jay Kelly.

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Weekly Plugs
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Jeff - Jeff’s Cameo Page

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:50:32)
David - It Was Just an Accident, Murdaugh: Death in the Family
Jeff - It Was Just an Accident, Stumble

Featured Review (~01:20:41)
Jay Kelly
SPOILERS (~01:33:17)

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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 am very grateful that I got to see it end before it ended.
0:28.9	Joining me today is Jeff Kanata.
0:31.9	Jay Kelly is the blef blenada of George Clooney's.
0:37.4	All right. It's just me and Jeff today. Devindra is trash. the blef blenada of George Clooney's.
0:38.2	All right.
0:40.3	It's just me and Jeff today.
0:42.9	Devendra is traveling for the week.
0:46.5	But those are vague and oblique references to the fact that today on the podcast, we're going to be reviewing Jay Kelly, new film on Netflix, starring George Clooney and
0:52.7	Adam Sandler in a rare dramatic role.
0:55.8	You can find more episodes of this show at the Filmcast.com.
0:57.8	Email us at slash filmcast at gmail.com.
1:01.2	And support the show at patreon.com slash film podcast.
1:03.8	Today we are going to discuss a bunch of random film news items that have been filling up our feeds before we get to some what we've
1:14.1	been watching, some weekly plugs, and then our review of Jay Kelly.
1:20.1	But first, let's follow up really quickly from last week's episode.
1:23.8	You know, we talked about rush hour for last week.
1:29.6	I did want to make clear. Thank you to several people for pointing out. Paramount has agreed to distribute Rush Hour for whenever it gets made.
1:35.8	They're not the ones making it, but apparently that's going to be a thing. And Paramount is like,
1:40.6	whatever you want, Don, whatever you want, baby, we're here for you, Don.
1:46.4	At that point, I asked you all, hey, if you had the power to dictate that a long dead thing
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