Ep. 859 - Dead Man's Wire

The Filmcast

News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff go on the hunt with Sirât, head deep undercover with Ponies, and attempt to solve the mystery at the heart of Agatha Christie's Seven Dials. Then they reckon with the depth of American greed with Gus Van Sant’s latest film, Dead Man’s Wire.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Stephen David Miller’s 10 Cinematic Pairings
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: Why would Apple want to make an AI pin?
Jeff - DLC 636 with Imran Khan

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:30:06)
David - Sirât, Wonder Man, Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Devindra - Ponies, Hal & Harper
Jeff - Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Featured Review (~01:07:27)
Dead Man’s Wire
SPOILERS (~01:23:24)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.9	I'm David Chen, and a movie set in the 70s about large financial institutions taking
0:29.1	advantage of everyday Americans.
0:31.4	Sure hope that at some point in the last 50 years, they worked on that a tiny bit at least.
0:37.5	Joining me today is Diffin Your Hardware.
0:39.8	We're going to double up here.
0:41.2	Surely the banking industry learned something from the events of this film.
0:46.3	And Jeff Kanata.
0:49.6	Last week, a movie with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in the same movie this This week, Gus Van Zant, we're in a goodwill hunting assents.
1:01.1	Those are vague and oblique references of the fact that today on the podcast,
1:03.9	we're going to be reviewing Dead Man's Wire, new Gus Van Sant movie that potentially
1:10.3	has a lot of relevance and resonance with events
1:12.9	going on these days. But you're listening to the film cast. We got a couple of film news
1:18.4	items to discuss with you as well as what we've been watching this week and then some weekly
1:24.8	plugged before we get to our review of Dead Man's Wire.
1:29.1	So let's get into it.
1:31.1	The one thing I wanted to start off by mentioning is 28 years later to Bone Temple,
1:37.0	a movie that we all loved, unfortunately, continues to do pretty poorly at the box office.
1:44.0	It dropped pretty substantially. Yeah, it dropped pretty poorly at the box office. It dropped pretty substantially.
1:46.7	Yeah.
1:47.0	It dropped pretty substantially despite being rated extremely well by us.
1:52.3	The most important demographic.
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