On the August 23, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by news editor Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler.
Opening Banter:
At The Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- Hoai-Tran saw Chris (!) and blew out her voice doing karaoke.
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Ben read What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon.
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Hoai-Tran watched Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Protégé, the Rurouni Kenshin live-action movies, Hard-Boiled, and revisited The Virgin Suicides.
- Ben watched The Green Knight and Hiroshi Inagaki’s Samurai trilogy.
Also mentioned:
- ‘The Protege’ Review: Maggie Q Takes the Lead in an Assassin Movie Misfire
- ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Review: Tony Leung’s Villain Eclipses the MCU’s First Asian Superhero
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- You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.
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