Ep. 855 - Avatar: Fire and Ash
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: Pluribus and Fallout S2
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: 2025 was a year of AI, smart glasses and spineless Big Tech
Jeff - DLC’s Favorite Games of the Year!!
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:08:48)
David - Sentimental Value, The Mastermind, Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts
Devindra - From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, Heated Rivalry, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 4K
Jeff - Sentimental Value, Taskmaster S19
Featured Review (~00:59:10)
Avatar: Fire and Ash
SPOILERS (~01:29:18)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's no better feeling than waking up surrounded by comfort. |
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| 0:23.6 | The home of your kind of cozy, Denelm. The home of homes. Hello, everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast, a podcast about movies. I'm David Chen, |
| 0:56.1 | and Avatar Fire and Ash? More like Avatar, The Way of Water, too. Joining me today is |
| 1:03.2 | Dividra Hardwar. Imagine Una Chaplin describing this movie to her grandfather, Charlie Chaplin. |
| 1:09.2 | Grandpa, I'm in a movie, except it's not me. It's my |
| 1:12.5 | full performance, but it's not me. I'm not, I'm in a place. I'm on another plan. It's not really a place. |
| 1:16.1 | It's important. My God. Mike, imagine that. He basically did the exact same thing with the little |
| 1:22.5 | potatoes on the forks. Yes. And Jeff Kanata. |
| 1:29.0 | If every single thing in this movie is performance captured, that means that little |
| 1:34.2 | dude kissed Sigourney Weaver. |
| 1:40.1 | Got to take your shot when you get it. |
| 1:42.2 | Those are, of course, all vague and oblique references the fact that today on the podcast, |
| 1:45.1 | we're going to be reviewing Avatar, Fire, and Ash. |
| 1:48.2 | That is going to be our main review this week. |
| 1:50.9 | Guys, I don't know if you can hear, but I got, I believe, |
| 1:56.9 | something called the superflu this last week. |
| 1:59.8 | I'll take the soup. |
| 2:01.0 | I don't know if it's actually super flu, but I got completely devastated by something this |
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