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Water Cooler: Catching Up With the Films of 2020

/Film Weekly

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

On the December 10, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to at the water cooler.   Opening Banter:   At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:Everyone has been playing catch-up with the 2020 movie slate. And that’s all we’re talking about today. What we’ve been Watching:Ben and Brad watched Boys State Jacob and Ben watched Freaky. Ben and Brad watched Nomadland HT and Ben watched Sound of Metal Brad and Ben watched Possessor HT and Ben also watched Mank and Another Round Ben watched The Old Guard, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Archenemy, Wild Mountain Thyme, and Love and Monsters. Jacob watched The Trial of the Chicago 7, Bad Education, and The Painter and the Thief. Hoai-Tran watched Wonder Woman 1984, She Dies Tomorrow, The Call. Brad watched folklore: the long pond studio sessions, and Minari   Additional Things We Mentioned: Culturally Relevant Interview with Boys State director Jesse Moss   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 Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, 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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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Thursday, December 10th, 2020 on today's episode

0:04.8

where you're going to be gathering around the virtual water cooler to talk about what we've been up to, what we've been watching.

0:10.1

My name is Ben Pearson, I'm the senior writer at slash film at slash film managing editor Jacob Hall.

0:16.0

Hello, hello.

0:17.0

Weekend editor Brad Omen.

0:19.0

Hey, that's me.

0:20.0

And writer, Why Trend Bowie.

0:21.0

Hey everyone.

0:22.0

All right guys, Chris and Peter are not with us today. and writer White Trend Bowie. Hey everyone.

0:22.8

All right guys, Chris and Peter are not with us today,

0:25.2

but we have a lot to talk about today.

0:27.4

We're doing a special edition of the water cooler today.

0:30.4

We are, over the past few weeks we have been trying desperately in some cases to

0:36.4

catch up with a lot of the movies that we've missed so far in 2020 and despite

0:41.4

you know what several people may tell you on the street,

0:45.0

hopefully you're not actually not talking to anybody in the street right now because there's still a pandemic going on,

0:49.0

but you know, it seems to me that like there's a procession out there that no movies came out this year and yes a ton of movies were delayed

0:56.4

But this podcast is here to dispel you of that notion that no movies came out in 2020 because we have a lot of things to talk about.

1:04.3

So we're scrapping all of our discussion about film and TV and what we've been eating and playing and reading and all that kind of stuff and just

1:11.7

drilling down into the 20-20 content that we've been catching up with.

1:15.0

So with all of that said, let's go ahead and just jump right into it.

1:19.0

Brad, you and I watched Boys State, let's go to you first. What did you think about that one?

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