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



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



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”



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”



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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April 10, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “A Minecraft Movie,” “The Friend,” and “Hell of a Summer”



Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk film and aver the normal run-times of latter-day releases, with the notable exceptions including the forthcoming The Chosen: Last Supper 3 clocking in at over three hours:

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March 27, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Snow White,” “The Alto Knights,” “No Other Land,” and “Locked”



Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra love to review movies and ruin each others’ days — in this instance, Dave telling Mike who the lead for the forthcoming Blumhouse Mummy reboot will be. That’s just cruel. . .

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