Slow Horses Season 5 (with Showrunner Will Smith), Him, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and More
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On the September 24, 2025 episode of /Film Weekly, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by several people to talk about the latest film and TV news, the Halloween Horror Nights experience in Las Vegas, Justin Tipping’s new sports horror movie Him, and Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and I’ll wrap up by talking a bit about Slow Horses season 5 and presenting an interview with showrunner Will Smith.
(~00:25) In The News:
- https://www.slashfilm.com/1971533/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel-live-bad-news-american-media/
- https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/damon-lindelof-pledges-not-to-work-with-disney-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-1236523784/
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-reactions-marvel-disney-stars-1236376120/
- https://bsky.app/profile/mattbelloni.bsky.social/post/3lzf47qwewc2y
- More than 400 celebrities signed an open letter from the ACLU calling this a “dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation,” comparing the situation to the McCarthyism that ruled over the 1950s.
- Disney brought him back: https://www.slashfilm.com/1975610/jimmy-kimmel-live-return-date-disney/
- https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/disney-plus-hulu-price-increases-october-2025-1236527241/
- https://deadline.com/2025/09/sleepaway-camp-kenan-thompson-developing-reimagining-1236548085/
- https://deadline.com/2025/09/randy-savage-biopic-kenan-thompson-in-development-1236552908/
- https://deadline.com/2025/09/scorsese-dicaprio-jennifer-lawrence-what-happens-at-night-1236548458/
- https://variety.com/2025/music/news/taylor-swift-film-theaters-october-showgirl-1236524158/
- https://x.com/AMCTheatres/status/1969072793095483593
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO1HzoNAVYX/?igsh=M2kxb3g4eWNyZm1v
- https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-lands-here-be-monsters-tron-ares-joachim-ronning-1236549380/
- https://deadline.com/2025/09/long-walk-david-jonsson-cooper-hoffman-the-chaperones-1236552986/
(~05:05) Halloween Horror Nights: Vegas Edition
Here's How Universal's Horror Unleashed Compares To Halloween Horror Nights
(~12:55) Him
Him Review: Marlon Wayans Is Scary Good In This Nightmarish Sports Horror Movie
(~21:43) A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Review: A High-Concept Romantic Fantasy With No Passion
(~35:24) Slow Horses season 5
(~37:21) Interview with Slow Horses showrunner Will Smith
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Weekly. It's Wednesday, September 24th, 2025. And on today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news. We'll talk about the Halloween Horror Nights experience in Las Vegas, Nevada. We'll talk about Justin Tipping's new sports horror film, Him, Koganada's A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. And I'll wrap up by talking a bit about Slow Horses Season 5 and presenting an |
| 0:21.4 | interview with that show's showrunner, Will Smith. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at |
| 0:26.2 | slashfilm.com. And let's kick things off with a news rundown here. So the whole Jimmy Kimmel |
| 0:32.2 | situation happened since we put out our last episode. At this point, you're probably sick of hearing |
| 0:37.3 | about it. And you've likely heard |
| 0:38.7 | a million reactions to that. |
| 0:40.9 | So I'm not really going to bore you with that here other than just to say props to people |
| 0:44.9 | like Tatiana Maslani, Damon Lindeloff, and Sarah McLaughlin for speaking out about the situation |
| 0:49.9 | more forcefully than many of their colleagues. |
| 0:53.6 | Kimmel's suspension was lifted last night, and that news came a day before Disney announced |
| 0:58.3 | that there would be price increases to Disney Plus and Hulu. |
| 1:01.2 | I'll leave it to you to judge if that timing sounds suspicious at all. |
| 1:05.5 | He returned in some markets, although Sinclair and Nexstar, the ABC affiliates, who exacerbated this mess, are, to the best of my knowledge, still not running the show in the markets that they serve. |
| 1:17.1 | And then Donald Trump immediately threatened to go after ABC again. |
| 1:20.5 | So, you know, just another day in the United States of America. |
| 1:23.5 | So let's get to the rest of the news. |
| 1:25.5 | Kenan Thompson's production company is making some moves, developing a reimagining of the |
| 1:31.3 | horror movie Sleepaway Camp and a biopic of the wrestling icon macho man Randy Savage. |
| 1:37.8 | What a one-two punch that is. |
| 1:39.6 | And frankly, I just wasn't even aware that Keenan Thompson even had a production company. |
| 1:44.8 | Of course, he's been an S&L mainstay for decades at this point. |
| 1:49.2 | But I'm curious to see if those movies end up getting made. |
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