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October 3, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “The Wild Robot,” “Lee,” “Will & Harper,” “My Old Ass,” and “Megalopolis”



Mike Schultz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk movies:

Continue reading October 3, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “The Wild Robot,” “Lee,” “Will & Harper,” “My Old Ass,” and “Megalopolis”


September 26, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “The Substance,” “Never Let Go,” “His Three Daughters,” and “Transformers One”



When it rains, it pours, and Mike Schulz, after wandering through a virtual desert of cinema these last couple weeks like a sundowning Moses, has defied expectations, stayed alive, and made it to the Promised Land to lay down the law, to kibitz over the commandments, with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra.

Well, four of them, anyway:

Continue reading September 26, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “The Substance,” “Never Let Go,” “His Three Daughters,” and “Transformers One”


September 19, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Speak No Evil” and “The Killer’s Game”



Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra get right into it this time around — very light on the “hail-fellow-well-met” pleasantries and straight onto the business at hand.

And business isn’t, well, good:

Continue reading September 19, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Speak No Evil” and “The Killer’s Game”


September 12, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and “The Front Room”



Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra spend some time on the back-half talking about the cinematic iterations of Batman (meaning, Burton and Nolan) and the coming Joker: Folie à Deux, which, if Todd Phillips feels he must continue genuflecting to Martin Scorsese in his sequel, he will have to somehow incorporate his love of New York, New York (1977, starr Liza Minelli and Robert De Niro) as well.

Hmmmm. . .

These, here, now, the films:

Continue reading September 12, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and “The Front Room”


September 5, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Reagan” and “AfrAId”



Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra turn in a tight ten-minute back-and-forth this week, a consequence of Schulz having seen two films and two previews, total. He usually has more than that, you understand. But that, apparently, is how the season is shaking out: After Beetlejuice Beetlejuice next week, he’ll be catching the new, animated Transformers film. In addition to all these incredibly important dates to keep, Schulz is also directing A Streetcar Named Desire at the Playcrafters Barn Theatre, so he’s got quite a bit going on in his life right now.

The films under review:

Continue reading September 5, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Reagan” and “AfrAId”


August 29, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Sing Sing,” “Blink Twice,” and “Strange Darling”



Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, movies, discussion of. That’s the set-up. That’s what they do. That’s what’s done. We’ll let you know if they decide to play off it (introduce a guest speaker, say) or outright abandon it (the three opt to perform scenes out of Samuel Beckett’s Play, for instance). It’s likely they won’t mess with the format like a certain someone does the mic settings at the beginning of each klatch.

These are the films Schulz has seen:

Continue reading August 29, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Sing Sing,” “Blink Twice,” and “Strange Darling”


August 22, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Alien: Romulus,” “Didi,” and “My Penguin Friend”



Mike Schulz discusses the possibility with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra of an Oscar for Previews, the last Tim Burton film he’s fallen in love with (as opposed to merely enjoying), and the shock reveal that, in the original Beetlejuice, Michael Keaton was on-screen a total of sixteen minutes (get out!), before getting down to the meat of the matter — other movies!

They are:

Continue reading August 22, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Alien: Romulus,” “Didi,” and “My Penguin Friend”


August 15, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “It Ends with Us,” “Cuckoo,” “The Instigators,” “Borderlands,” “Trap,” and “Harold and the Purple Crayon”



Mike Schulz met up with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra at Awake Coffee to discuss all matters movie. There was no broadcast the previous week, so the trio had a bit of ground to cover.

To whit:

Continue reading August 15, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “It Ends with Us,” “Cuckoo,” “The Instigators,” “Borderlands,” “Trap,” and “Harold and the Purple Crayon”


August 1, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Deadpool & Wolverine,” “The Fabulous Four,” and “Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location”



Mike Schulz discusses cinematic matters with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra. Levora believes Twisters could have used more twisters than it gave its audience. That was last week. This week’s fare pales in comparison:

Continue reading August 1, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Deadpool & Wolverine,” “The Fabulous Four,” and “Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location”