The Filmcast

This week, David, Jeff, and Devindra discuss the challenges of seeing Hamilton, the sadness of The Orville, and wish they could see T2 in theaters without the 3D. Be sure to read Peter’s essay on getting into the Magic Castle and Devindra’s review of T2.

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SHOWNOTES

What We’ve Been Watching

David: Hamilton

Devindra: T2 3D, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Insecure

Jeff: The Orville, Bojack Season 4, Bo Burnham’s Make Happy

Film News:

Colin Trevorrow out of Star Wars 9

Hollywood blames Rottentomatoes

Featured review: (1:08:00)

It

SPOILERS (1:34:00)

Credits

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Tune in for the thrilling conclusion to this year’s Summer Movie Wager. Thanks to Dennis for creating the Summer Movie Wager site this year and thanks to everyone for playing!

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2017 Summer Movie Wager Rules

The rules for the game come from TimeTravelReview’s Summer Movie Pool:

The object is to pick the films that you think will be the top-ten grossing films of the summer, in order of box-office performance. As I’ve said, that means only films released from May 1st 2016 to the Labor Day weekend, counting only the money those films make domestically (US and Canada) in that period. In other words films from March or April might still be making money after May 1st, but they don’t count; films released from May on could start racking up foreign B.O., but that doesn’t count; films released from May on could still be making money into September, but that doesn’t count either. Box Office numbers are generally available late Monday or Tuesday after the weekend closes. For the last seven or so years, I have been using box office numbers from Yahoo Box Office which gets their numbers in turn from Box Office Mojo. So what you will be doing is figuring out what 10 films will make the most money, and putting them in order of what you think they will gross at the box office. BUT, in addition to your top 10, you get to pick 3 “Dark Horses”- films you think *might* make it, but that you are not confident enough about to put into the top 10 proper.

 

2017 Summer Movie Wager Scoring:

Getting number 1 or number 10 dead-on gets you 13 points (each).

The rest of the scoring goes like this:

10 points for numbers 2-9 dead-on

7 points if your pick was only one spot away from where it ended up

5 points if it was two spots away

3 points if your pick is anywhere in the Top 10

1 point for each dark horse that makes it into the Top 10

The scoring is tabulated so that you get the SINGLE HIGHEST point value for each pick- that is, if you get number ten right, you don’t get 13+3, you only get 13. This year your can play along with us by submitting your list on thesummermoviewager.com. Anyone who submits their list by Friday will be counted in the updated scoreboard.

Peter Sciretta’s List:

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Despicable Me 3

Spider-Man: Homecoming

War for the Planet of the Apes

Wonder Woman

Transformers 5

Cars 3

Pirates of the Caribbean 5

The Mummy (2017)

Dunkirk

Darkhorses:

Alien: Covenant

The Emoji Movie

Valerian

David Chen’s List

Despicable Me 3

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Wonder Woman

Transformers 5

War for the Planet of the Apes

Cars 3

Dunkirk

Pirates of the Caribbean 5

The Mummy (2017)

Darkhorses:

Alien: Covenant

Baywatch

Captain Underpants

Germain Lussier’s List:

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Despicable Me 3

Transformers 5

Pirates of the Caribbean 5

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Cars 3

Wonder Woman

Alien: Covenant

Dunkirk

War for the Planet of the Apes

Darkhorses

 The Mummy (2017)

Baywatch

Captain Underpants

Jeff Cannata’s List:

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Transformers 5

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Despicable Me 3

Cars 3

War for the Planet of the Apes

Pirates of the Caribbean 5

Dunkirk

Alien: Covenant

The Mummy (2017)

Darkhorses

Rough Night

Baywatch

Wonder Woman

Devindra Hardawar’s List:

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Despicable Me

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Wonder Woman

Dunkirk

Transformers 5

Pirates of the Caribbean 5

War for the Planet of the Apes

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

The Dark Tower Aug 4

Darkhorses:

Atomic Blonde

The Mummy (2017)

King Arthur

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David, Jeff, and Devindra discuss the brilliance of Ozark, the racial subtext of Good Time, and why AMC doesn’t want you to be disappointed with MoviePass.

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SHOWNOTES

What We’ve Been Watching

David: Good Time, Icarus, Ozark

Devindra: Game of Thrones, The Defenders, Death Note

Jeff: Icarus, finished Ozark, Ducktails

Film News:

Ed Skrein backs backs out of Hellboy

Moviepass cuts prices

Joker origin movie

Featured review: (1:05:30)

Logan Lucky

SPOILERS (1:19:30)

Credits

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This week, we bring you two of our favorite reviews from the archives: Our reviews of Transformers: The Age of Extinction and Chappie.

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Featured reviews:

Transformers: The Age of Extinction

SPOILERS (39:26)

Chappie (58:55)

SPOILERS (1:21:23)

Credits

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With David out sick, Devindra and Jeff team up this week to chat about The Glass Castle, the latest film from Short Term 12 director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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SHOWNOTES

 What We’ve Been Watching

 Devindra (03:45): Annabelle: Creation, Tacoma, Hellbade: Senua’s Sacrifice

Jeff (18:17): Game of Thrones S7

Featured review:

The Glass Castle (31:12)

Credits

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David, Jeff, and Devindra discuss Kathryn Bigelow’s newest film, Detroit. Be sure to check out Angelica Jade’s review, Jason Bailey’s review, and Zeba Blay’s review.

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 What We’ve Been Watching

Slashfimcourt (31:30)

Featured review:

Detroit (44:10)

SPOILERS (1:00:45)

Credits

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David and Matt Singer from ScreenCrush review The Dark Tower. Then, Devindra and David discuss Bong Joon-Ho’s new film Okja. Be sure to check out Matt Singer’s review of The Dark Tower and Josh Spiegel’s review of The Dark Tower.

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Featured Review

The Dark Tower (with SPOILERS)

(59:15) Okja

(1:20:00) Okja SPOILERS

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David, Jeff, and Devindra are joined by Britt Hayes from ScreenCrush to review Atomic Blonde. Check out Britt’s review of the film. 

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Featured Review

Atomic Blonde

(30:15) SPOILERS

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David, Jeff, and Devindra discuss the visual brilliance of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, plus praise Netflix shows Friends from College and Ozark.

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SHOWNOTES

What We’ve Been Watching

Everyone: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Jeff: Friends from College, Ozark

Featured Review with SPOILERS (33:47)

Dunkirk

Credits

Our sponsor this week is Bombfell. For $25 off your first purchase, go to bombfell.com/filmcast.

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David, Jeff, and Devindra discuss why Pandora Land was a historical accident, the hyper-specificity of Oh Hello, the disappointing Bad Batch, and the brilliance of Hasan Minaj’s Homecoming. Read Edgar Wright’s tribute to George Romero.

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SHOWNOTES

What We’ve Been Watching

Jeff: Oh Hello, Friends from College

Devindra: The Bad Batch ,The Defiant Ones, Game of Thrones

David: Netflix specials: Aziz Ansari Live at Madison Square Garden, Norm MacDonald: Hitler’s Dog, Gossip & Trickery, Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King.

Film News

Emmys

Martin Landau and George Romero

Star Wars hotel

Featured Review (1:18:00)

War for the Planet of the apes

SPOILERS (1:39:00)

Credits

Our sponsor this week is Bombfell. For $25 off your first purchase, go to bombfell.com/filmcast.

Our music sometimes comes from the work of Adam Warrock. You can download our theme song here. Our Slashfilmcourt music comes from Simonmharris.com. Our spoiler bumper comes from filmmaker Kyle Hillinger.

If you’d like advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail [email protected].

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