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Water Cooler: Godzilla vs. Kong, Creepshow, Unhinged, Little Shop of Horrors, The Ewok Movie, Exterminate All the Brutes, Mr. Beast

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🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On the April 7, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, 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: Brad is out but will be back later this week. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Reading:Jacob read The View From the Bridge by Nicholas Meyer. What we’ve been Watching:Jacob went to theaters for Godzilla vs Kong, and Peter saw Godzilla vs. Kong at home on HBO MAX. Peter rewatched Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure on Disney+. He’s also been watching a bunch of Mr. Beast on YouTube. Jacob watched the new episode of Creepshow, finished Hulu’s Sasquatch and watched Tiger. Chris watched Unhinged, Mare of Easttown, and finally started watching Ted Lasso. Ben watched Easter Parade and the first two episodes of Exterminate All the Brutes. Hoai-Tran watched Little Shop of Horrors, has been revisiting Pushing Daisies. What we’ve been Eating:Peter on Easter went to Outback Steakhouse and had a boomerang margarita flight.   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 Apple Podcasts, 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 Helm Daily for Wednesday, April 7, 2021.

0:06.0

On today's episode we're going to discuss what we've been up to at the water cooler.

0:09.2

This is Slash Helm Editor-in Chief Peter Sorretta and joining me on today's podcast,

0:12.4

Slash Realm Managing Editor, Jake Paul.

0:14.8

Hello, hello.

0:16.3

Writer, Wightran Bowie.

0:17.6

Hey everyone.

0:18.8

And Chris Evangelista.

0:20.0

Hello.

0:21.2

And Brad is not here this week, but he'll be back next week or actually he'll be back on this

0:25.9

podcast later this week so you can look forward to that.

0:29.8

None of us have been doing anything exciting this week so we're going to move on to what we've been reading.

0:35.2

Jacob, what have you been reading?

0:36.8

I read the View from the Bridge by Nicholas Meyer,

0:39.2

who is best known for directing Star Trek 2 and Star Trek 6.

0:42.5

But this is his overall memoir of his time in Hollywood,

0:45.9

which covers not only the Star Trek movies,

0:47.4

but also him making the infamous TV movie,

0:50.6

the day after, the time travel, you you know romcom adventure time after time the

0:55.4

books he wrote the screenplays he wrote and it's a really interesting read

0:59.3

because even though the cover of the book really sells this as being a Star Trek book. Meyer himself was never really into

1:05.2

Star Trek. He's actually pretty dismissive of it early in the book. And it turns up he's kind of the right guy to save it because

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