Water Cooler: Blitz, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Sing Sing, and More
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On the December 5, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been watching.
In the Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Jacob read The Future Was Now by Chris Nashawaty, Shock Value by Jason Zinoman, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Ben rewatched Severance season 1 and Vertigo, and watched Blitz, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing, and Nosferatu.
- Jacob watched Shrinking, Gladiator II, and the Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell miniseries.
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| 1:00.1 | December 5th, 2024 on today's episode of the show. We're going to gather around the virtual |
| 1:04.0 | water cooler and talk about what we've been watching. My name is Ben Pearson. I am an editor |
| 1:07.8 | at Slashfilm.com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor, Jacob. Hello, hello. All right, Jacob, before we get into what we've been watching, let's get into what we've been reading. What have you been reading recently? I have a lot of things to talk about. And in fact, I cut this list in like half. I've been reading a lot as we spoke, Ben. But I'll talk to stuff I think of most interest to our readers, starting with The Future |
| 1:31.2 | Was Now by Chris, Chris Nashawati. |
| 1:34.3 | This is the second one of his books I've read. |
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