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



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:

  • The Roses (dir Jay Roach, starr Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, and Kate McKinnon).
  • Caught Stealing (dir Darren Aronofsky, starr Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Live Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Bad Bunny, Griffin Dunne, and Carol Kane).
  • The 2023 remake of 1984’s The Toxic Avenger (dir Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Julia Davis, Jonny Coyne, Elijah Wood, and Kevin Bacon).
  • Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club (dir Chris Columbus, starr Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, David Tennant, Jonathan Pryce, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Richard E Grant, Tom Ellis, Geoff Bell, Paul Freeman, Sarah Niles, and Ingrid Oliver).

Those that are en route:

  • The Conjuring: Last Rites (dir Michael Chaves, starr Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Mia Tomlinson, Ben Hardy, Rebecca Calder, Elliot Cowan, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Beau Gadsdon, Molly Cartwright, Tilly Walker, Peter Wight, and Kate Fahy).
  • Highest 2 Lowest (dir Spike Lee, starr Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice).
  • The tenth-anniversary re-release of the Disney+ cinematic adaptation of the highly-rated biographical musical Hamilton (dir Thomas Kail, starr Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Daveed Diggs, Anthony Ramos, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Okieriete Onaodowan, and Jonathan Groff).
  • Twinless (dir James Sweeney, starr Sweeney, Dylan O’Brien, Aisling Franciosi, Lauren Graham, Tasha Smith, Chris Perfetti, François Arnaud, Susan Park, and Cree Cicchino).
  • The Cut (dir Sean Ellis, starr Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe, and John Turturro).
  • Lurker (dir Alex Russell, starr Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Wale Onayemi, Daniel Zolghadri, and Sunny Suljic).

“The Roses,” “Caught Stealing,” “The Toxic Avenger,” and “The Thursday Murder Club”