Water Cooler: RIP Val Kilmer, Discworld, The Studio, and More

On the April 2, 2025 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.

Before we get to that, RIP Val Kilmer.

In the Water Cooler:

• What we’ve been Doing:
• Jacob ran two half marathons and then suffered a terrible accident.
• What we’ve been Reading:
• Ben read The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.
• Jacob read The Path to Paradise by Sam Wasson, and has begun reading Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
• What we’ve been Watching:
• Ben has been watching a bunch of stuff he can’t talk about yet, but he wants to talk about The Brutalist 4K.
• Jacob watched Warfare, Mickey 17, The Studio, and The Pitt.
• What we’ve been Playing:
• Ben has been listening to The Serpent and the Rainbow score.

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