Ep. 806 - Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
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David, Devindra, and Jeff investigate a disappearance with I’m Still Here, return to the office with the second season of Severance, and fly back to the world of stop motion animation with Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Then they dive into the treacherous crime world of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding TV: Squid Game Season 2
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: Wrapping up CES 2025
Jeff - DLC with Bailey Meyers
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:16:26)
David - I’m Still Here, Dave goes 4K-crazy: A Bittersweet Life, Galaxy Quest
Devindra - Severance S2, Squid Games S2
Jeff - Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Bad Sisters, Cunk on Life
Featured Review (~01:06:12)
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
SPOILERS (~01:23:09)
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Comments
imo what makes this movie great is the pacing, the beautiful scenery, the scumbaggery, the cig smoking, etc. This is NOT a movie you go see for the thought provoking plot, the depth of character, making sure the writers cross all their T’s and dot all their I’s. To take a fine tooth comb to this movie is, imo, to misunderstand completely what it’s trying to do. You go for the shtick, not the taught, fundamentally sound script writing/acting. Come on Jeff and Dave. This is a popcorn B movie and if you go into it w that mind frame it delivers on all fronts.
Asher Maitin
2025-02-01 18:55:10 +0000 UTCThey present Donnie in the first movie as a guy who is in charge of his surroundings at all time, and no one has any idea…in this one he‘s in charge of fuck all.
Dave Epp
2025-01-21 18:32:38 +0000 UTC* * * SPOILER ALERT * * * An easier fix for this movie is just to have the police drive away with Donnie and the crew until they’re out of sight and then turn into a parking structure and let them go because Donnie saw this coming a mile off and paid them off in advance.
Dave Epp
2025-01-21 18:29:54 +0000 UTCThank you kindly! Our little sister is on my watchlist
Calvin Jones
2025-01-17 21:04:59 +0000 UTCIt's not a movie it's a show (just like the amazing Makanai last year, also from Kore-eda), and the title is Asura. I preferred Makanai, but it's still very good and recalls earlier Kore-eda like Still Walking or Our Little Sister
Matt
2025-01-17 20:59:12 +0000 UTCSpeaking of Claes Bang, I urge you to check out The Square – Ruben Östlund's film from 2017. Bang is spectacular in it!
Linus
2025-01-17 08:51:43 +0000 UTCI'm going to date myself terribly, but I saw Jamiroquai back in the 90s here in the US, and the singer, Jay Kay, said in between songs that he loved coming to America because we have water with the brand name Crystal Geyser. He explained how back home in the UK that everyone calls each other "geezer", and if someone is "crystal" it is very complimentary. So every time he had a bottle of Crystal Geyser water he felt like he was receiving a huge compliment 😂
Stranger2Reality
2025-01-17 06:43:51 +0000 UTCJeff needs a nap.
toeknee
2025-01-17 05:46:16 +0000 UTCSo sorry to hear about David Lynch's passing. May he rest in peace ♥️🙏🏽
Kevin H
2025-01-16 23:54:31 +0000 UTCI have a fun game for the hosts (and anyone else) to play. I just saw a trailer for the new Jason Statham movie called A Working Man, and I'm willing to bet all three hosts could predict with 100% accuracy the entire plot of the movie from just the very first image at the start of the trailer. The trailer starts with Statham on a construction site while wearing a hard hat. It's crazy, but that's enough to know with complete accuracy what the movie is about. Try it out for yourself, click on the trailer and pause it one second in then guess the premise of the movie and I guarantee you'll get it 100% correct 😂 https://youtu.be/zTbgNC42Ops
Stranger2Reality
2025-01-16 22:18:23 +0000 UTCLetterboxd already let me down :(
Calvin Jones
2025-01-16 21:48:55 +0000 UTCIMDb might be quicker mate
Mark P
2025-01-16 21:46:09 +0000 UTCI will have you gentlemen know, earlier this week I had to make a court appearance to testify about a thing...when I arrived, I thought to myself "I'm going to raw dog this wait," just because of Jeff and Dave.
Joseph Cahill
2025-01-16 20:15:45 +0000 UTCWhat was the name of the Shoplifters director new film?
Calvin Jones
2025-01-16 16:34:03 +0000 UTCJust shouting out the director Adam Elliot for Jeff, an Australian known for stop motion. He released Memoir of a snail- and he (and his team) are fantastic! All three films are just phenomenal!
Jay Wood
2025-01-16 14:29:00 +0000 UTCI don't see how years can have passed between DOT1 and 2 when he's served with divorce complaint in the first and we see his divorce finalized (with a scene literally in Family Law Court) in the second. It doesn't look like Gerry Butler's marriage was so complicated that the divorce would drag on for years. Come on now. In the world of these films, it's a maximum of 2 years between events of first and second. Maximum.
Papool Chaudhari
2025-01-16 06:47:34 +0000 UTCYou can tell when the Filmcast fans have no interest in the movie being reviewed by the fact that there are no comments about the movie being reviewed lol.
Papool Chaudhari
2025-01-16 05:45:32 +0000 UTCI hate to be a pedant (JK I love it) but the Galaxy Quest 4K is a native 4K scan, not an upscale. By Grabthar's Hammer!
Russell Hull
2025-01-16 02:18:54 +0000 UTCW&G is very not-London!
Iain Clarke
2025-01-15 16:02:48 +0000 UTCOn geezer - Dave and Jeff are both right. In English, geezer implies Old, but in an affectionate way. In London-ish, it is just man. Like Diamond Geezer is "top bloke". I'm sure Guy Ritchie uses it liberally.
Iain Clarke
2025-01-15 15:59:48 +0000 UTCI’m a Brit and co-sign the above.
Garry L
2025-01-15 12:42:06 +0000 UTCThe copy of A Bittersweet Life Dave and Devindra are talking about is the 4K disc from Second Sight Films. They’re a UK distributor and their transfers and special features are top of the line. 99% of 4Ks are region-free so maybe that’s why it was available on Amazon? Anyway I’d recommend their 4K versions of The Witch and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Goodspeed
2025-01-15 11:04:16 +0000 UTCIn Kermode & Mayo reviews of Guy Ritchie films I’ve heard them described as “geezer” as in very man-ish/bro etc
ak
2025-01-15 03:40:28 +0000 UTCGeezer Butler (bass player for Black Sabbath) gained the nickname when he was a kid
Peter Meilleur
2025-01-15 00:42:48 +0000 UTCIt was so long - I forgot the question. Need to repeat the question for the Habenero answer.
Mark Griffith
2025-01-14 20:30:18 +0000 UTCI was ready to write that the sci fi invisible shield was dumb but it's a real thing lol
Cardassian Vexillology
2025-01-14 19:36:03 +0000 UTC“Geezer” is definitely used for men of all ages in the UK. It’s similar to “guy.” Also sometimes has a positive connotation, saying a guy is good - “yeah he’s sound, he’s a geezer.” Source - many years lived in the UK
Cameron S
2025-01-14 18:33:16 +0000 UTCIt’s been updated in Apple Podcasts!
Brian
2025-01-14 18:28:48 +0000 UTCI've had a few Patreon RSS feed podcast not show up in the past few days, had to listen on the Patreon app, so it's not just this pod.
Grant Cosper
2025-01-14 18:01:45 +0000 UTC
