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Christmas Water Cooler: Batman: White Knight, Three Identical Strangers, Marwen, Hate U Give, Skate Kitchen, The Endless, Die Hard, Spider-Verse, First Man, Codenames & More

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4.4942 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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On the December 26, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista, to talk about what they’ve been up at the Water Cooler. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it). At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:Brad had his annual Friendsmas party, was forced to open almost all the White Elephant Christmas gifts himself, helped his friend Ben create his own Escape Room Peter brought one of his favorite board game designers Jamey Stegmaier to the Magic Castle. Ben is bouncing back and forth between his parents’ and in-laws’ houses for Christmas; visited Top Golf for the first time Hoai-Tran went to Georgetown Glow with her sister and mom, had her annual Secret Santa with her high school friends, and ate a lot. What we’ve been Reading:Comixology is having their big year end sale, so Peter usually buys a lot of the big critically acclaimed comics and graphic novels. He read Batman: White Knight by Sean Murphy (written and art) and is half way through The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. Brad isn’t reading yet, but is excited to dive into a Young Frankenstein book about the making of the movie and Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down. Chris finished Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz’s The Sopranos Sessions. What we’ve been Watching:Ben watched Three Identical Strangers.   Brad saw Widows, Bumblebee and Welcome to Marwen.   Peter saw Aquaman for the second time, but this time in IMAX. He watched the season finale of Survivor: David vs. Goliath. At home he caught up on some screeners and movies on streaming, including The Hate U Give, You Were Never Really Here, Upgrade, Skate Kitchen, The Endless, and The American Meme. He also watched the first couple episodes of the new Guillermo Del Toro-produced Netflix and Dreamworks animated series 3Below: Tales of Arcadia, and the first episode of Syfy’s Deadly Class. Hoai-Tran (finally) saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Minding the Gap, rewatched Game Night, saw Die Hard for the first time, and binged the latest episodes of Terrace House. Chris (re)watched First Man, Vice and Destroyer. What we’ve been Eating:Peter officially lost 30 pounds. Then spent Christmas eating Chinese food. He somehow gained a handful of pounds in the process. Brad found the Hershey’s milk chocolate bar with Reese’s Pieces What we’ve been Playing:Peter played a new board game he got for Christmas called Photosynthesis. Brad has been listening to the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack. Hoai-Tran played Codenames for the first time, got a PS4 for Christmas. Other articles mentioned: /Film’s Die Hard 30th Anniversary coverage 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. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Have you ever browsed in Incognito mode?

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It's probably not as Incognito as you think.

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Google recently settled a $5 billion lawsuit

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after being accused of secretly tracking users in Incognito mode.

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Google's defense? Incognito does not mean invisible.

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In fact, all of your online activity

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is still 100% visible to a ton of third parties,

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unless you use Express-DPN.

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Third parties like your internet service provider,

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your mobile network provider,

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and the admins of your Wi-Fi network,

0:28.6

which could be your school, your boss, or your parents,

0:31.4

can still see every website you visit even in incognito mode, but not with

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express VPN. They reroute all of your traffic through servers that are secure and

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encrypted so nobody can poke around and see what you've been up to.

0:43.4

Express VPN is ridiculously easy to use.

0:46.0

It is literally one click and you're protected.

0:48.6

It works on a ton of different devices, your phone, your laptop, your tablet, and more, so you can stay protected anywhere.

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And it's been rated as the best virtual private network by respected tech reviewers like The

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Virge and CNET.

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I don't like the idea of anyone spying on my internet activity for all kinds of reasons

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so it's important to me personally to use express vpn to make sure my online activity is my own.

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