Ep. 875 - Obsession
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
David, Devindra, and Jeff head to the arena for Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour, assess family dynamics in Blue Heron, and exact vengeance in The Punisher: One Last Kill. Then they fixate on a wish gone horribly wrong with Obsession.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: The Bear’s Gary Surprise Drop
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: Who needs Googlebooks?
Jeff - We Have Concerns: Time is Perception
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:15:25)
David - Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour
Devindra - Blue Heron, Is God Is
Jeff - Blue Heron, The Punisher: One Last Kill, Widow’s Bay
Featured Review (~01:07:51)
Obsession
SPOILERS (~01:26:14)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm David Chen, and guys, I once wished that I could be part of one of the longest running movie podcasts of all time. |
| 0:31.0 | And bad news, it came true. |
| 0:34.4 | Joining me today's Davindra Hardwar. |
| 0:37.1 | This one goes out to all the single |
| 0:39.2 | folks out there, the love Lauren. |
| 0:41.6 | What did we learn tonight? |
| 0:43.0 | If you have feelings for somebody, tell them. |
| 0:44.7 | Or people will die. |
| 0:48.8 | And Jeff Kana. |
| 0:50.2 | You make one little wish to join |
| 0:52.9 | your favorite film podcast. And now these guys won't leave me alone. |
| 0:59.2 | Those are, of course, all vague and oblique references to the fact that today in the podcast, we're going to be talking about obsession. |
| 1:06.0 | Or as they're often marketing it, Curry Barker's obsession, which I have to say, a lot of a person's name horror |
| 1:13.8 | movie this summer. Make it a thing. Make director's names a thing, but also do this for the women, |
| 1:19.1 | do this for everybody, you know. Possessing. New movies. Yeah, and I actually do support it to |
| 1:25.8 | figure it. I think it is like, it should be associated with the director. You should also know his name because this movie is incredible. So that's why. I'm all for, I'm all for it to Vindra. I just think that the downside is that I get a pang of anxiety when I see something like, the new film by Curry Barker and the first thought that pops in my head is should I know that guy? Am I supposed to know? Am I supposed to do people know who are people |
| 1:48.4 | talking about Curry Barker? This is how it starts. I actually I actually am very familiar with |
| 1:52.6 | Curry Barker's work because he he and Cooper Tomlinson made a lot of TikTok sketches before |
| 1:57.7 | they made this film together and so I did know who Curry Barker was, but I'm saying, guys, consideration for those who are not as caught up with the latest TikTok trends. That's all I'm saying. I know, now we know your worst fears. Not to be on the button. In the no. Like on the pulse of culture. In the no. Right. Lee Kronin? What? Does everyone know who Lee Cronin is? Guys, did I miss the Lee Cronin party? |
| 2:49.6 | Yeah. Anyway. Today on the podcast, we have some what we've been watching for you and some weekly plugs before we get to our review. But first, why do we take a visit to the Slash Film Court? Slash is the semi-regular segment |
| 2:52.5 | wherein we adjudicate your movie-related dilemmas. |
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