FilmBookCast Ep. 102 – Shazam! (2019)

FilmBookCast Ep. 102

FilmBookCast is an entertainment industry news podcast about the latest movie and television show news.During each episode, FilmBook contributor Mike Smith and his co-host Mike DeCriscio also review a new movie that has recently been released. This week, they’re talking the latest movie from director David F. Sandberg and the 7th overall film in the DC Extended Universe, Shazam!

Shazam‘s plot synopsis: “We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s case, by shouting out one word – SHAZAM. – this streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid can turn into the grown-up superhero Shazam.”

Shazam! stars Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Djimoun Hounsou, among others.

SHOWNOTES

FILM NEWS (3:45)

James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad will see the return of Viola Davis, Joel Kinneman, and Jai Courtney; The Eternals may feature Angelina Jolie and Kumail Nanjiani

Baz Luhrmann’s next film will be an Elvis Presley biopic featuring Tom Hanks

Joel Coen is going solo to direct a new MacBeth with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand

Mark Hamill will voice Chucky in the Child’s Play remake.

DISCUSSIONS (22:40)

Mike D – Goliath Season 2, Good Luck Miss Wyckoff, Umbrella Academy, Cowboy Bebop, In The Dark 

Mike S – Dumbo, The Beach Bum, A League Of Their Own

FEATURED REVIEW  (1:04:30)

Shazam!

SPOILERS (1:31:55)

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