June 19, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Materialists,” and “The Life of Chuck”

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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk film like nobody’s business. Concerning Bride Hard, of which Schulz says, “You know someone’s gonna wind up dead in the punch bowl,” that “someone” might be you.

The films:

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June 12, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Ballerina,” “The Phoenician Scheme,” and “Dangerous Animals”

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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra discuss all things cinematic. Hey, you remember Tim Key’s turn as Pigeon Man in Mickey 17? Dave surely does. . .

The films:

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June 5, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Karate Kid: Legends,” “Bring Her Back,” and “Mountainhead”

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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra discuss films and why some of them exist. Sometimes, there are no easy answers to that question.

Films:

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May 29, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” “Lilo and Stitch,” “The Last Rodeo,” and “Friendship”

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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra discuss films reviewed by Schulz, and await forthcoming releases.

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Todd McGreevy & AD in the Morning on WQUD Discuss the May Edition of River Cities’ Reader

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River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail on May 13, 2025, concerning the May issue of the Reader, Issue 1033. Dail says that anyone who wants to pitch Netflix a series called City of Davenport would need look no further than the Reader’s coverage. One could get a whole season’s worth from the fallout from the 28 May 2023 collapse of The Davenport — an ostensible drama of intrigue, official-capacity opacity, and Scott County equivocation, which plays like an old Three Stooges short directed by David Mamet. And that’s just a season.

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May 15, 2025, with Dave and Darren “Clown in a Cornfield,” “Shadow Force,” “Fight or Flight,” and “The Shrouds”

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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk film and drop plot twists on the clown movie:

This is what Schulz saw:

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May 8, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Thunderbolts*,” “Another Simple Favor,” “The Surfer,” “Rust,” “The Accountant 2,” and “Until Dawn”

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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk film — and we’re talking a lot of film here. Can’t wait to see Final Destination Bloodlines:

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