Ep. 857 - No Other Choice
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
David, Devindra, and Jeff keep calm and carry on in Fackham Hall, race to the top in the fourth season of Industry, and investigate a mixed media murder with Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Then they dig into the struggles of capitalism in Park Chan-wook’s latest film No Other Choice.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Patreon: Everything Notable That Happened in David Chen’s Life in 2025
Devindra - All my CES stuff at Engadget
Jeff - DLC 633 with Ashley Esqueda and 634 with Allen Brooks
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:13:07)
David - Fackham Hall, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, Heated Rivalry
Devindra - Industry S4, The Pitt S2, Alpha
Jeff - Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Featured Review (~01:03:37)
No Other Choice
SPOILERS (~01:22:18)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to the film cast. |
| 0:09.0 | It's the film cast. |
| 0:11.0 | It's the film cast. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the filmcast, a podcast about movies. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm David Chen and I feel pretty confident. |
| 0:26.7 | You guys are talking to 2026's Pulp Man of the Year. |
| 0:31.3 | Joining me today is Devendra Hardewar. |
| 0:34.0 | I've also thought about murdering my enemies to win in capitalism. |
| 0:38.3 | That's just the world we live in. |
| 0:40.2 | And Jeff Kanata. |
| 0:41.6 | I asked Dave if we were going to podcast again in 2026, and he said, yes, we have no other choice. |
| 0:50.6 | It's so true. |
| 0:51.6 | Those are, of course, all vague and oblique references to the fact that today of the podcast, |
| 0:55.2 | we're going to be reviewing Park Chanwick's newest film, No Other Choice, |
| 1:00.4 | which is out in theaters right now. |
| 1:03.4 | I do want to mention, by the way, After Dark tie-in. |
| 1:07.1 | Today on this week's After Dark, we are going to be discussing Park Chan book's horror thriller |
| 1:12.5 | classic Old Boy, which is something that's been in the works. And when I say in the works, |
| 1:18.7 | I mean people have been waiting for it for. Horner is a bit much, but yes. Many, many years. |
| 1:24.9 | Really, you don't think it's a horror thriller? Maybe just thriller. How about thrill? |
| 1:27.3 | No, it's a thriller? It's just thriller. How about thrill? No. |
| 1:28.8 | It's a thriller. |
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