Water Cooler: Song of Spider-Man, Mulan, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Master and Commander, The Mask, and More

Sep 3, 2020

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On the September 3, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler.

Opening Banter: Several of the regular crew are going to be out traveling tomorrow in the lead-up to Labor Day weekend, so we’re only going to have two podcast episodes this week.

At The Water Cooler:

What we’ve been Doing:
- Brad went to the movie theater to see Tenet.
What we’ve been Reading:
- Jacob read The French and Indian War by Walter R. Borneman
- Chris read Song of Spider-Man by Glen Berger.
- Ben read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
What we’ve been Watching:
- Chris and HT watched Antebellum.
- Jacob watched Love on the Spectrum, High Score, Sputnik, Class Action Park, Cats, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, and The Mask.
- Chris watched Bill & Ted Face the Music.
- Ben rewatched Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and enjoyed the third episode of Lovecraft Country.
- Hoai-Tran watched Mulan, The Philadelphia Story, and the new season of Aggretsuko.
- Brad watched Earth to Ned, Robin’s Wish, rewatched One Fine Day.
What we’ve been Eating:
- Brad tried The Mandalorian cereal, and Ritz Cheese Crispers
What we’ve been Playing:
- Ben listened to the latest ultra-long episode of The Secret History of Hollywood podcast.
- Jacob played his first solo RPG session and ran another session with only one player.
- Hoai-Tran and her RPG group finally got around to Call of Cthulhu (we did the Lightless Beacon one-shot).