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The Filmcast

Ep. 854 - Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

The Filmcast

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff get out the vote for Ella McCay, head down the road to revenge with Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, and navigate a new world in Left-Handed Girl. Then they return to the scene of the crime with Rian Johnson’s latest film, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.

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Weekly Plugs
David - New Travel Vlog: Q&A 
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on Netflix/WB
Jeff - Jeff’s Cameo Page

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)   
What we've been watching (~00:39:43)
David - Left-Handed Girl, Sentimental Value
Devindra - Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Smiling Friends
Jeff - Ella McCay, Song Sung Blue

Featured Review (~01:16:44)    
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
SPOILERS (~01:40:01)

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies.

0:24.1

I'm David Chen, and I watched this week's movie doing this thing I told you about where

0:28.0

I hold my hand upside down.

0:29.9

Joining me today is Dibin Your Hardware.

0:33.3

I can't wait until Benoit Blanc figures out who Noah Segan is in all his movies.

0:37.6

It's one guy. That's the greatest case of all.

0:41.5

And Jeff Kanata.

0:42.6

I'm Jeff Kanata and I'm still searching for my daily bread.

0:48.4

Those are, of course, all vegan oblique references to the fact that today of the podcast,

0:52.3

we're going to be reviewing Wake Up Dead Man, Colon, out mystery rolls trippingly off the tongue uh you can of course find

1:00.6

more episodes of the show at the filmcast.com email us slash phonecast at email.com support

1:04.1

the show at patreon.com slash film podcast today we got some what we've been watching for you some

1:10.4

really fun titles to discuss as well as some weekly plugs.

1:14.9

But first, you know, DeVindro, welcome back to the show.

1:17.8

DeVindra was out last week. Nothing has happened, right? Nothing has happened while I was out.

1:20.8

Devendra was traveling last week. He was not here. And yeah, absolutely nothing happened in the last week since we last recorded with Divida, of course.

1:30.5

Certainly no earth-shattering events in the realm of Hollywood.

1:34.7

But yeah, we are going to get Dvindra's opinion about the big Warner Netflix news.

1:41.5

Of course, there have been some updates in that situation as well that we'll talk about. But first, really before that, we do need to acknowledge the fact that Rob Reiner and his wife passed away. As we're recording this within the last 24 hours, you're probably listening to this a little bit later. I mean, they were murdered. They were murdered. Yeah. Murdered.

2:02.0

Very tragically.

2:04.0

And we need to just acknowledge what a massive loss this is for culture, for cinema.

2:13.8

A lot of people have pointed out that Rob Reiner had a generational run in terms of movies.

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