Halloween Water Cooler: Doctor Sleep, BoJack Horseman, Cronos, The Shining, Knives Out, Harriet, Pixar, AppleTV+, Jojo Rabbit, Dolemite Is My Name, Undone, Sleepy Hallow,

Oct 31, 2019

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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