Water Cooler: Halloween, Mank, Haunters, Seduced: Inside The NXIVM Cult, Almost Famous, Sabotage, Back To The Future Part II, Crimson Peak, On The Rocks, Notorious

On the November 2, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they've been up to at the Water Cooler.

At The Water Cooler:

  • What did everyone do for Halloween?
  • Peter live-streamed about Mandalorian.
  • Brad went to a friend's house for a socially distanced bonfire where masks were worn and costumes were encouraged.
  • Jacob had a thoroughly mediocre Halloween!
  • Hoai-Tran watched Rocky Horror Picture Show with friends.
  • Ben visited his nieces.
  • What we've been Doing:
  • Peter went to Downtown Disney to check out all the new Christmas merch
  • Jacob voted.
  • Hoai-Tran voted and guested on Nerdist News Talks Back.
  • What we've been Reading:
  • Jacob started reading The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History by Andy Green.
  • Peter read the first chapter of Charles Soule's Star Wars: Light of the Jedi.
  • What we've been Watching:
  • Peter has been watching more of Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult on Starz, and Sofia Coppola's On The Rocks. He's also been watching a lot of YouTube and wanted to plug two episodes: Justin Scarred's tour of Goonies filming locations and Adam The Woo stayed overnight in the Christmas Story house.
  • Brad watched Haunters: The Art of the Scare, Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, introduced his girlfriend to Back to the Future Part II, has been suckered into watching The Bachelorette.
  • Chris watched Mank.
  • Hoai-Tran watched The Wailing, A Tale of Two Sisters, rewatched Notorious, Sabotage.
  • Ben watched Crimson Peak, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, and rewatched Almost Famous
  • What we've been Eating:
  • Brad tried Sugar Cookie Hershey's Kisses, Monster Ultra Watermelon, Gingerbread Oreos.
  • What we've been Playing:
  • Brad has been playing Call of Duty's Halloween event, The Haunting of Verdansk
  • Jacob is playing Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • Hoai-Tran is terrible at Among Us.
  • All the other stuff you need to know:

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