Ep. 870 - The Drama

The Filmcast

News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Submit your lists to the Summer Movie Wager website!

David and Jeff discuss the finer points of watching movies with your spouse, think about the nature of cancellation with Outcome, and kick out the jams with School of Rock. Then they put a relationship to the test with The Drama.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: The Boys Season 5 and The Pitt
Jeff - DLC 647 with Rebekah Valentine

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:59:30)
David - Outcome, Deadloch
Jeff - Taskmaster S21 Premiere, School of Rock

Featured Review (~01:30:13)
The Drama

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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.
0:23.7	I'm David Chen, and the worst thing I ever did was going up to someone and saying,
0:28.1	Hey, do you want to start a podcast?
0:32.9	Joining me today is Jeff Kanata.
0:34.7	We had the same thought.
0:36.3	Oh, really?
0:36.9	That was yours?
0:37.8	I was going to say the worst thing I've ever done is saying, sure, I'll guest on your film podcast.
0:50.2	Folks should know we do not discuss these things in a dance.
0:53.8	We just kind of let it rip.
0:56.7	And, you know, that can result in some wonderful moments.
1:00.1	And sometimes it can result in, hey, you guys need to get your act together and plan this better.
1:05.6	Anyway, welcome to the show, everyone.
1:07.3	It's just me and Jeff today.
1:08.8	Devindra hasn't been feeling well this week.
1:11.0	If you have a chance, send him some well wishes. We hope he is feeling better soon and we expect he'll be back next week on the podcast for real.
1:19.4	Anyway, today on the podcast, we got a bunch of emails. We got a little bit of film news to discuss.
1:26.8	And then some what we've been watching before we get to our review of the drama, which is what our opening statements were vague and oblique references to.
1:36.4	You can find more episodes of the show at the filmcast.com.
1:39.2	Email us at slash filmcast at gmail.com.
1:44.5	But first, a big announcement, guys.
1:47.6	I want to mention to everyone that every year we do this thing called the summer movie wager
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