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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the films he’s reviewed this week. Before they get rolling, Levora informs Schulz that an unidentified, unsolicited caller had texted him to convey to MS that Bad Boys: Ride or Die was his jam. Thanks, Identity Redacted!
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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the latest round of films he’s reviewed. They get right into it, folks. These are professionals at work. They know their jobs. Don’t taunt or gawk at them. They’ve got moves, and they know people.
The films are:
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Mike Schulz discusses with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra what a low box-office draw this Memorial Day was — you have to go back to 1995, the summer of Caspar, for a lackluster opening that couldn’t be blamed on a pandemic. Schulz wasn’t expecting Furiosa to break records, being a Hard-“R”-rated film. Still, it must have been tough for him to watch a film crash and burn, financially, in quite the manner that Furiosa, a film devoted to crashing and burning, did.
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Mike Schulz discusses with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra the films that he brought for them from the sea. The haul this week was considerably more plentiful than the one film Schulz saw (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes). Such privations forced them to talk about TV shows. They appear to be stuck in that mindset, as they find other stuff to discuss other than film. Like their childhoods, and whether or not they had imaginary friends.
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Mike Schulz has only one full-fledged film to discuss with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, directed by Wes Fall and starring Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, and William H Macy. Compared to the bravura direction of Matt Reeves (2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes), Fall’s is workmanlike — that is to say, competently executed. Competence, particularly in this era, isn’t anything to disesteem outright. Nonetheless, one returns to the words of the Twentieth Century dramatic critic John Mason Brown: “The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.” If you can tell a story well, then good on ya; but if you can make that story stick in peoples’ heads for decades to come. . .
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra continue a prior discussion of their mutual fondness for Marcia Strassman, of Welcome Back, Kotter and MASH fame,
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra just can’t seem to get enough of each other. They discuss the habit of recent films to distinguish films as pre- and post-COVID pandemic and the seeming return of sex to the cinema, sans Purex. And not a moment too soon, apparently.
The films Schulz caught are:
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra dealt with some microphone-monkeying that had gone on before Levora and Pitra climbed aboard and got on with it. They discuss the family Shyamalan, with M Night’s daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan’s forthcoming directorial début The Watchers. Will Ishana be hobbled by the defects of her familial predecessor, Manoj Nelliyattu? God, let’s hope not.
And here, now, the reviews.
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra chit the film chat for a tight fifteen. Schulz liked what he saw this week, which disappointed Levora, who finds Schulz to be most fun when he’s attacking some form of abominable tripe. No luck this week, Dave.
The films under discussion:
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Mike Schulz has overcome last week’s problem (car died, again) to make it into studio to jaw with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about stuff cinematic. Schulz credits the fine folk at Uber for making the film-going experience sans automobile an enjoyable one, even when the films proved underwhelming or even anti-whelming.
These are the films that Schulz has reviewed: