November 13, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Predator: Badlands,” “Frankenstein,” “Nuremberg,” “Die My Love,” “Christy,” and “It Was Just an Accident”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz discuss film and ponder its mysteries — all for the cinematographically illiterate folk in the world. Job’s a good ‘un.

The reviewed:

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November 6, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Bugonia,” “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” “Hedda,” “Ballad of a Small Player,” and “KPop Demon Hunters”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz have a lot more films to catch than they’ve seen thus far. Frankenstein is already on Netflix, so you know.

What’s in theaters:

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October 30, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” “A House of Dynamite,” “Regretting You,” “Shelby Oaks,” and “Blue Moon”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz watched Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, and, boy howdy, they have some thoughts about Jeremy Allen White’s portrayal of The Boss of All Bosses).

The films being observed:

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October 23, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Black Phone 2,” “Good Fortune,” and “After the Hunt”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film and wonder aloud what kind of installments of Star Wars we might have gotten had David Fincher or Steven Soderbergh directed them. Oh, you may mock — but the gatekeepers of the Star Wars franchise pondered that very same question. Schedules were set, dinners eaten, drinks drunk, and concepts hashed out before the producers opted for other aesthetes.

Out (and Proud):

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October 16, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “The Smashing Machine,” “Anemone,” “Good Boy,” “Tron: Ares,” “Roofman,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” and “John Candy: I Like Me”

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Back after their successful world tour last week, Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film.

The here:

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October 2, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “One Battle After Another,” “The Strangers: Chapter 2,” “Dead of Winter,” and “Eleanor the Great”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film. They will be taking holiday next week, so no new talk until 16 October.

What’s in the theaters:

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September 25, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” “Him,” “The Senior,” and “The History of Sound”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz discuss film in their own inimitable idiomatic fashion.

The here:

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September 18, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” and “The Long Walk”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz chit the chat over film — in particular, both generations of Spinal Tap.

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September 11, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” “Highest 2 Lowest,” and “Twinless”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film. Schulz talks about The War of the Gargantuas, the 1966 kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, which does sound very enjoyable — perhaps even more than what we’ve seen of late.

What’s on:

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September 4, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “The Roses,” “Caught Stealing,” “The Toxic Avenger,” and “The Thursday Murder Club”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz have reunited, and it feels so good. So good, it seems, that they can brook any amount of disappointment, so long as it’s baked into a given film’s story, and not the natural product of a crappy directorial execution.

The latest releases:

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