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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.

Continue reading May 30, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” “Babes,” and “The Garfield Movie” →

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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.

Continue reading May 23, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “IF,” “The Strangers: Chapter 1,” “Back to Black,” and “I Saw the TV Glow” →

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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. . .

Continue reading May 16, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” →

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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,

Continue reading May 9, 2024 on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “The Fall Guy,” “Tarot,” “The Idea of You,” and “Unfrosted” →

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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:

Continue reading May 2, 2024 on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Challengers,” “Unsung Hero,” and “Boy Kills World” →

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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.

Continue reading April 25, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Abigail,” “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” and “Sasquatch Sunset” →

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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:

Continue reading April 18, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Civil War,” “Arcadian,” “Vanya,” and “Hundreds of Beavers” →

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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:

Continue reading April 11, 2024, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” “In the Land of Saints and Sinners,” “Ripley,” “The New Omen,” “Monkey Man,” “Wicked Little Letters,” and “Problemista” →

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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra take an extended stroll down Memory Lane with the films from 1989. Road House wasn’t the only film released that year, you know. That’s what Wikipedia tells us, anyway.

To the movies, ladies and gentlemen!

Continue reading March 28, 2024 on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” “Road House,” “Shirley,” “Immaculate,” and “Late Night with the Devil” →

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Mike Schulz was over the moon with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about how many films he was able to watch and review (five) and still visit his mother in Chicago. Good job, homie.

Here, now, the reviews:

Continue reading March 21, 2024 on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Arthur the King,” “Love Lies Bleeding,” “One Life,” “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” and “Snack Shack” →