HBO's The Mortician is a Great True-Crime Doc, Materialists is Very Different From Past Lives, and More
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
On the June 18, 2025 episode of /Film Weekly, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by a bunch of people to talk about the latest film and TV news and present interviews with the writer/director of Materialists and the director of The Mortician, which has officially become the most-watched HBO doc of the last five years.
In The News: (~01:45)
- James Gunn's DC Universe Will Avoid Marvel's Biggest Problem With A Simple Rule
- One Of The Best DC Comics Ever Is Becoming A Show (With One Game-Changer)
- Robert Eggers' A Christmas Carol Can Actually Capture What Most Adaptations Miss
- Spaceballs 2 Is Actually Happening, And It's Already Done The Impossible
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/harold-and-kumar-sequel-in-the-works-1236292052/
- https://deadline.com/2025/06/netflix-tf1-france-1236436374/
- Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere | Official Trailer
(~30:35) Materialists Review: Celine Song Brings A Beautiful Depth And Yearning To The Traditional Rom-Com
(~37:27) Materialists spoiler discussion
(~01:01:40) Celine Song interview
(~01:12:09) The Mortician
(~01:21:27) The Mortician spoiler discussion
(~01:26:17) The Mortician ending
(~01:36:55) Joshua Rofé interview
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Slash Film Weekly. It is Wednesday, June 18th, 2025. And on today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news. And we'll present interviews with the writer-director of materialists and the director of the mortician, which has officially become the most watched HBO doc of the last five years. |
| 0:18.7 | My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on |
| 0:22.1 | today's episode by Slashfilm editors Jacob Hall. Hello, hello. And Brad Oman. Hey, that's me. |
| 0:28.5 | All right, congratulations to Miles Betts and William Van Beek, who won the giveaway that we announced |
| 0:34.6 | last week. I've sent your names and addresses to the PR team |
| 0:38.2 | handling the giveaway. So hopefully they'll be shipping that to you soon if they haven't already. |
| 0:42.8 | Also, just in terms of emails, I wanted to mention that we received an email from Nicole, |
| 0:48.0 | who was answering a question that Brad posed after his interview with Kevin Smith on the podcast |
| 0:52.3 | a little while back. Nicole suggested that Justin Long could play a great Lucifer in Smith's sequel to Dogma, |
| 0:59.5 | because in Brad's interview, Kevin Smith said that Lucifer was going to be played by a person |
| 1:03.6 | that he'd worked with one time before. |
| 1:05.5 | So, yeah, Brad, what do you think about that guess? |
| 1:08.3 | Unfortunately, I think it's wrong because Justin Long is in both Tusk and |
| 1:13.5 | Zach and Murie make a porno. |
| 1:15.5 | Oh, man, I forgot about Zach and Miri. |
| 1:17.7 | Okay. |
| 1:18.2 | All right. |
| 1:18.7 | But Justin Long would make a pretty good Lucifer. |
| 1:22.2 | So I do like that train of thought. |
| 1:24.4 | Maybe Kevin Smith also forgot that he was in second that that would be a reasonable assumption |
| 1:30.3 | actually but you know he is also in Jansdown about reboot so that's three so |
| 1:37.0 | oh Jesus Christ tough tough yeah that's that's a big L for me personally shouldn't have even |
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