Ep. 860 - Send Help
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
David, Devindra, and Jeff remember the late great Catherine O'Hara, dig deeper into a mystery with A Private Life, look to the stars with Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and head to Hollywood for Marvel’s latest TV offering, Wonder Man. Then they signal for rescue with the new Sam Raimi film, Send Help.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Sundance Coverage
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: What do prediction markets like Kalshi cost us?
Jeff - You’ve Never Seen What?
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:20:12)
David - A Private Life, Sundance: One in a Million, The Incomer
Devindra - Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Sundance: Josephine, zi
Jeff - Wonder Man, Fackham Hall, Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Featured Review (~01:08:45)
Send Help
SPOILERS (~01:24:53)
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Credits:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm David Chen, and I complain about my podcast co-host, Noxious Oaters, all the time, |
| 0:29.2 | but I don't get a crash on a desert island. |
| 0:32.5 | Joining me today is Jeff Kanata. |
| 0:34.8 | Being stuck on a desert island with the person who tells you what to do, when to do it, and where to be. |
| 0:40.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:42.1 | Sounds delightful, Dave. |
| 0:46.0 | And Devendra Hardwar. |
| 0:48.5 | At least Rachel McCatham's didn't take a red eye in this movie. |
| 0:52.4 | They're going to have to get Sherlock Holmes over here to figure out what happened in this crash. She should have started a notebook diary. You know, funny games. Nailed it. Not funny games, not funny games. She wasn't in funny games. Game night. Game night. Game night. Game night. Game night. Killing of a sacred deer. Dr. Strange. It's so good to see her back. |
| 1:12.6 | That's all I'm saying. |
| 1:14.6 | Was she killing of a secret deer? |
| 1:15.6 | She, yeah, she's briefly in that movie. |
| 1:17.6 | Rachel McDonnells is my number one crush. |
| 1:22.6 | She's so good. |
| 1:24.6 | My wife is aware of that. |
| 1:26.6 | She calls her my girl. |
| 1:29.4 | Like, she is my number. |
| 1:32.7 | Like, if I had one wish this holiday season. |
| 1:33.4 | Wow. |
| 1:37.8 | If I had one, if I, one hall pass, that would be, that would be the one. My favorite thing about send help, which we will discuss as our main review today, is that the movie tried to make her look unappealing. |
| 1:46.3 | And then it literally didn't take. |
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