Ep. 867 - Project Hail Mary

The Filmcast

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4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff go for broke in How to Make a Killing, brace for change with The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, and take to the seas with the Disney Fantasy Cruise. Then they take one last chance on our universe with Project Hail Mary.

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Weekly Plugs
David - The eXpat Files: It Was Just Not an Accident
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 mess
Jeff - Formative Media episode 2

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:06:15)
David - How to Make a Killing, Heel
Devindra - The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, Videoheaven, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Jeff - Disney Fantasy Cruise Ship, Phineas and Ferb

Featured Review (~01:14:00)
Project Hail Mary
SPOILERS (~01:42:30)

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0:38.3	It's the film cast.
0:40.3	It's the film cast.
0:42.3	It's the film cast.
0:45.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the film cast.
0:51.3	A podcast about movies.
0:53.3	I'm David Chen, and I agree with the main ideas set forth by Project Hail Mary.
0:58.3	Make male astronauts hot again.
1:01.1	Joining me today is Diven Your Hardware.
1:03.3	Project Hail Mary, also the name of my last-ditch effort to make Dave watch Firefly.
1:07.5	One more try.
1:08.5	I've got one more try.
1:10.5	And Jeff Kanata. I finally got what I've
1:13.6	been wanting. A movie co-starring Ryan Gosling and The Rock.
1:19.9	Oh, wow. Perfect. After that whole pre-show speech, too, Jeff. Okay, anyway, it's fine.
1:29.4	Welcome to the podcast, folks.
1:34.4	Those are very vague and oblique, non-spoileries references to the fact that today is a podcast.
1:37.0	We're going to be reviewing Project Tale Mary,
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