Ep. 876 - Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
David, Devindra, and Jeff assess the price of pop stardom in Mother Mary, check out Riz Ahmed’s take on a classic in Hamlet, and try to find the perfect pitch with Tuner. Then they return to a galaxy far far away with Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Stephen David Miller’s Cannes Dispatches
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on RGB TVs, OLED and what to buy this weekend
Jeff - Jeff’s Cameo Page
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:16:46)
David - Mother Mary, Hamlet (2025)
Devindra - Hamlet (2025), Nemesis, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord
Jeff - Tuner, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
Featured Review (~01:05:29)
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
SPOILERS (~01:28:46)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm David Chen and somehow The Mandalorian returned. |
| 0:28.7 | Joining me today is Devendra Hardewar. |
| 0:30.9 | The Mandalorian and Grogroom will return to your TV screens where they belong. |
| 0:36.1 | And Jeff Kanata. |
| 0:38.5 | Is this the way? |
| 0:42.0 | Good question, Jeff. |
| 0:43.4 | We're of course going to discuss that because those are all vague and oblique references |
| 0:46.9 | to the fact that today on the podcast, we're going to be reviewing the Mandalorian and |
| 0:50.9 | Grogu. |
| 0:51.9 | By the way, if you're a patron at patreon.com slash film podcast, you get that review early. So hope you enjoyed that over the Memorial Day weekend. You can find more episodes of the show at thefilmcast.com. Email us at slash filmcast, gmail.com. We got some what we've been watching for you. We got some film news for you. And then email we're going to read and discuss slash filmcast at gmail.com. |
| 1:13.9 | First I wanted to mention guys, check it on the summer movie wager. |
| 1:18.2 | Obsession is one of the big hits of the summer. |
| 1:21.9 | It is going to make a lot of money in its second weekend. |
| 1:28.6 | Like really fairly unprecedented amount of money in its second weekend compared to the first. |
| 1:33.5 | Nice. |
| 1:34.0 | And $100 million is in sight. |
| 1:37.4 | Nice. |
| 1:38.1 | So that means it could make the top 10. |
| 1:39.7 | You know what movie is almost definitely not going to make the top 10, though? |
| 1:43.2 | Mortal Kombat 2. I remember talking to my wife about the opening weekend. what movie is almost definitely not going to make the top 10 though mortal combat two i remember uh talking |
| 1:46.9 | to my wife about the opening weekend of that film and i think it opened to like what 35 millions |
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