Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 31st, 2019
On the October 31, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler.
Opening Banter: Anyone have any interesting plans for Halloween?
- Jacob is going to sit on his friend’s driveway and drink while handing out candy.
- Brad might go see a movie with his girlfriend.
- Ben is doing absolutely nothing
- HT might do laundry, idk.
- Chris is doing nothing but wishes he was.
- Peter is going to West Hollywood’s Halloween Carnival
At The Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- Peter went to the Magic Castle twice this week for the special Halloween week theming of Cursed Temple. He experienced the Reign of Terror haunted house in a mall in Thousand Oaks and experienced the LA Haunted Hayride for the first time.
- Jacob has started using the MapMyRun app.
- Brad went to Pixar.
- Hoai-Tran visited Sleepy Hollow, did a nighttime tour of the cemetery and went to The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze.
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Jacob read The Outsider by Stephen King.
- Ben read Game of Thrones: The Costumes.
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Chris, Jacob, and Ben saw Doctor Sleep.
- Chris and Jacob watched the new episodes of BoJack Horseman.
- Peter watched a few of the new Apple TV+ shows including The Morning Show and For All Mankind. He also watched some new Disney+ shows but is embargoed until next week.
- Jacob saw Jojo Rabbit, finished Undone, watched the first two episodes of Watchmen, Eli, Dracula 2000, and rewatched The Silence of the Lambs.
- Brad watched Dolemite Is My Name, and the first episode of The Imagineering Story, but he also can’t talk about it yet.
- Ben watched The Shining, Knives Out, Arsenic and Old Lace, Hocus Pocus, The Addams Family, and The Addams Family Values
- Hoai-Tran saw Harriet, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, did a double Guillermo del Toro feature of Cronos and The Devil’s Backbone, and saw Parasite again.
- What we’ve been Eating:
- Brad discovered chocolate-dipped Biscoff cookies, tried Mystery Oreos, Hershey’s Whoppers Bar, Milky Way Salted Caramel, Sparkling Caramel Apple Juice.
- Hoai-Tran made Vietnamese beef stew in her instant pot, which was easier than she thought it would be!
- What we’ve been Playing:
- Peter played the board game The Expanse with designer Geoff Engelstein and Jeff Cannata
Other Articles Mentioned:
All the other stuff you need to know:
- You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
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Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 30th, 2019
On the October 30, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall and senior writer Ben Pearson to talk all about the HBO Max news that was announced last night.
Opening Banter:
In The News:
New Shows Announced for HBO Max/HBO:
Big Deals for Old Shows and Movies:
What will be different about this service?
How much will it cost? How does it compare to other streaming options?
Other Articles Mentioned:
All the other stuff you need to know:
- You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
- /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.
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Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 29th, 2019
On the October 29, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and television news, including Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Netflix, and Universal Studios.
In The News:
Other Articles Mentioned:
All the other stuff you need to know:
- You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
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Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 28th, 2019
On the October 28, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista for a spoiler-filled discussion of the second episode of HBO’s Watchmen, entitled “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship.”
Opening Banter:
In The Spoiler Room:
- Origins of the “Watch Over This Boy” paper, German secretary writing a flyer which aims to convince black American soldiers to come to Germany
- Angela takes the old man back to her lair, lashes out in pain behind closed doors, and then interrogates him (Dialogue: There’s a vast and insidious conspiracy right here in Tulsa, but I can’t tell you about it or your head will explode. Psychic powers, I’m Doctor Manhattan)
- Angela gets the call about Judd’s body, goes to the scene
- White Night flashback sequence
- What happened to Angela’s husband Cal?
- What happened to that shooter after the scene cuts away?
- They adopted the children of her murdered partner
- Scene with Angela’s son Topher playing with the floating toy (castle connection)
- Jeremy Irons and The Watchmaker’s Son
- Red Scare leads the charge in Nixonville, wants to round up suspects; predictably, a fight breaks out
- Angela takes coffee cup with Will’s DNA on it to the Greenwood Center for Cultural Heritage, discovers that he’s her grandfather
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Secretary of the Treasury (in real life, he’s a Harvard University professor and prominent scholar of African-American history and culture)
- Angela heads to Judd’s house, meets Joe Keene, finds skeleton in Judd’s closet
- Uses Nite Owl technology, which has been appropriated by the government
- Angela arrests Will, who is rescued by a mysterious ship wielding a huge magnet
- American Hero Story - Zack Snyder
- Is Will the original Hooded Justice?
- Episode title - any thoughts on what the painting represents in this context?
Other Articles Mentioned:
All the other stuff you need to know:
- You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
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Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 24th, 2019
On the October 24, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Marvel TV, Joker box office, Foundation, Avatar sequels, Hocus Pocus 2, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Opening Banter:
In The News:
Other Articles Mentioned:
All the other stuff you need to know:
- You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
- /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.
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Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 23rd, 2019
On the October 23, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler.
At The Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- Peter has been doing his unsubscribe week. He also went to Disneyland and Kitra build her own lightsaber. And he’s been getting recognized more often for Ordinary Adventures.
- Jacob went on a work trip to Estes Park, Colorado, where he stayed in a haunted hotel room at the Stanley Hotel, attending the Shining Ball, went on a ghost tour, toured the Rocky Mountains in a Jeep, and interviewed Mike Flanagan and more.
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Jacob re-read Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep.
- Ben read Game of Thrones: A Guide to Westeros and Beyond
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Ben, Chris, HT and Peter watched the pilot of HBO’s Watchmen
- HT and Ben saw Jojo Rabbit.
- Peter saw almost 30 minutes of The Mandalorian at the junket, watched Zombieland: Double Tap, binge watched the entire season of Unbelievable on Netflix, finished watching HBO’s Years after Years, he tried watching Dark Crystal and Stumptown, and saw Between Two Ferns: The Movie on Netflix.
- Jacob saw Doctor Sleep but can’t tell you about it.
- Ben rewatched Paradise Hills, The Pixar Story, and Toy Story of Terror, and saw Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound and Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Hoai-Tran saw Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Black and Blue, watched A Hard Day’s Night on Criterion Channel, and the first 4 episodes of His Dark Materials.
- What we’ve been Eating:
- Peter went to Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland and tried all their new food.
- Jacob drank way too much “redrum punch.”
- What we’ve been Playing:
- Jacob re-played Resident Evil 4 for the nth time, this time on the Nintendo Switch.
All the other stuff you need to know:
- You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
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Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 22nd, 2019
On the October 22, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman for an in depth reaction and analysis of the final Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer.
Opening Banter: Did you get tickets?
In Our Feature Presentation: ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Trailer Breakdown: Long Have We Waited for This
All the other stuff you need to know:
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Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 21st, 2019
On the October 21, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista for a spoiler-filled conversation about the pilot episode of Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen.
Opening Banter:
In The Spoiler Room:
- Our relationships to Watchmen prior to this episode
- Worldbuilding - American Hero Story, Dr. Manhattan on Mars, Redford as President, squid rain (are the baby squids part of a government conspiracy?), watch imagery, other easter eggs (Under the Hood)
- Overall thoughts
- Tulsa Race Massacre, real life Bass Reeves
- Cop shooting sequence (need permission to unlock the weapon)
- Regina King as Angela Abar/Sister Night
- Don Johnson as Chief Judd Crawford (why doesn’t he wear a mask?)
- Jeremy Irons as Adrian Veidt (servant relationships)
- Interrogation in “the pod”
- Shootout at the cattle ranch (those cows!), plane crash
- Judd captured and lynched on his way to visit the injured officer in the hospital
- Reveal at the end with the boy from the beginning as the murderer (?)
Other Articles Mentioned:
All the other stuff you need to know:
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Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 18th, 2019
On the October 18, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss the latest film and TV news, including Venom 2 casting, MoviePass’s latest shady dealings, a new Barney movie, Black Adam’s possible start of production, and more controversy for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Opening Banter:
In The News:
Other Articles Mentioned:
All the other stuff you need to know:
- You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
- /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.
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Posted in DefaultTag on Oct 17th, 2019
On the October 17, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and TV news, including The Batman’s new Riddler, Superintelligence heading directly to HBO Max, Bone being adapted for Netflix, whether the newly-announced Harry Potter subscription service is worth it, and how Studio Ghibli films will be available for streaming after all.
Opening Banter:
In The News:
Other Articles Mentioned:
All the other stuff you need to know:
- You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
- /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.
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