Podcast Update and Water Cooler: The Righteous Gemstones, Cruising, and More

On the May 7, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what we’ve been watching.

In the Water Cooler:

• What we’ve been Doing:
• Ben has an announcement to make about the show (check him out on Bluesky), met up with BJ and Harmony for dinner, went to Jazz at LACMA, visited Cloud Gate (aka The Bean), the Art Institute of Chicago, and saw a Chicago Cubs game.
• BJ went into the Criterion Mobile closet, saw her first pullquote on a billboard, and got a new movie tattoo
• What we’ve been Reading:
• BJ is reading The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
• What we’ve been Watching:
• Ben watched The Righteous Gemstones and The Rehearsal season 2.
• BJ watched Cruising, Blinded By the Light, The Righteous Gemstones
• What we’ve been Eating:
• Ben met up with Brad in Chicago to see a movie he can’t talk about yet, and ate at Pequods and Mr. Beef.
• BJ is SO JEALOUS BEN HAD PEQUODS. But in continuing her quest to eat gimmick food, she finally tried the Doritos branded vodka.
• What we’ve been Playing:
• BJ is playing Nintendo 64

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