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:

  • A Minecraft Movie (dir Jared Hess, starr Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Hansen).
  • The 2023 comedy-horror Hell of a Summer (dirs Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk, starr Fred Hechinger, Abby Quinn, D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, Bryk, Wolfhard, Pardis Saremi, Rosebud Baker, and Adam Pally).
  • The 2024 drama The Friend (dirs Scott McGehee and David Siegel, starr Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Sarah Pidgeon, Carla Gugino, Constance Wu, and Ann Dowd).

Previews:

  • Warfare (dirs Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, starr D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henry Zaga, and Charles Melton).
  • The Amateur (dir James Hawes, starr Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, and Laurence Fishburne).
  • Drop (dir Christopher Landon, starr Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, and Jeffery Self).
  • The animated Christian film King of Kings (dir Seong-ho Jang, voice Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman, Mark Hamill, Pierce Brosnan, Roman Griffin Davis, Forest Whitaker, Ben Kingsley, and Oscar Isaac).
  • The Chosen: Last Supper Part 3 (dir Dallas Jenkins, starr Jonathan Roumie).

“A Minecraft Movie,” “The Friend,” and “Hell of a Summer”