#1040 December 2025 Reader Print Issue ITM Analysis WQUD Broadcast with Aaron Dail &Todd McGreevy

Jason Bermas, Todd McGreevy, WQUD

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December 16, 2025 original broadcast on WQUD 107.7 FM – River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy and WQUD GM Aaron Dail indulge in their monthly audio tête-à-tête, this one concerning the December edition of the Reader. Dail gets right into it about his distrust of all things AI. Those who see the artistic benefits of AI — as a relatively new platform for art, is it awaiting its Stanley Kubrick? — might want to ask, Will the political consequence of AI necessarily lead us into the plot of a Stanley Kubrick film?

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#1039 November 2025 Reader Print Issue ITM Analysis WQUD Broadcast with Aaron Dail &Todd McGreevy

Jason Bermas, Todd McGreevy, WQUD

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Original broadcast on WQUD 107.7 FM November 12, 2025 – River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy and WQUD GM Aaron Dail bid Neil Young a happy eightieth birthday, extol Gov’t Mule’s cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs, and give big ups to the Reader’s promotion of Jason Bermas’s Deep in The Weeds: A Rough Cut — Bermas himself being a recurring feature on WQUD. (JB can also be heard on his podcast, Making Sense of the Madness with Jason Bermas.) McGreevy and Dail run through their disagreement about the influence of AI: Dail thinks it’s insidious all around, while McGreevy believes its application in the arts, particularly music, will be salutary (perhaps as long as musicians use AI to help figure out how their individual arrangements are going to sound, and not act as a replacement for their own creativity, by which point AI will be using other AI results for its search parameters and wind up producing an incestuous beast of tired clichés and banal sounds which no one will want to listen to, and the market will respond accordingly).

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December 18, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Ella McCay,” “Silent Night, Deadly Night,” and “Oh. What. Fun.”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film and holiday breaks — the latter meaning no show until the new year. Oh, and Rob Reiner is gone. Let us now praise famous men. . .

On the screen:

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December 11, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Hamnet,” “Jay Kelly,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Fackham Hall,” and “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film and discuss Netflix’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros with something akin to dread.

In theaters:

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December 4, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Wicked: For Good,” “Rental Family,” “Train Dreams,” “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” “Sentimental Value,” “Eternity,” and “Zootopia”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz have shook off the Thanksgiving turkey torpor and have reconvened in studio to discuss film with the level of poise, invention, and couthiness that we’ve come to expect from the trio.

Open for business:

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November 20, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “The Running Man,” “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,” “Keeper,” “Nouvelle Vague,” “Being Eddie,” and “The Perfect Neighbor”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz prepare for next week’s holiday by going over the stuff out there, both in theaters and streaming. Anyone who watched Angus Wall’s Netflix doc on Eddie Murphy, Being Eddie, expecting earth-splitting, scandalous revelations that will make you rethink your whole conception of what it means to be Eddie Muprhy, clearly doesn’t know that celebrities like Eddie Murphy don’t sign deals with Netflix expecting their soiled undies to be paraded before the world. That’s something we all learn to come to grips with, eventually — no?

What’s up:

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November 13, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Predator: Badlands,” “Frankenstein,” “Nuremberg,” “Die My Love,” “Christy,” and “It Was Just an Accident”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz discuss film and ponder its mysteries — all for the cinematographically illiterate folk in the world. Job’s a good ‘un.

The reviewed:

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November 6, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Bugonia,” “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” “Hedda,” “Ballad of a Small Player,” and “KPop Demon Hunters”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz have a lot more films to catch than they’ve seen thus far. Frankenstein is already on Netflix, so you know.

What’s in theaters:

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October 30, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” “A House of Dynamite,” “Regretting You,” “Shelby Oaks,” and “Blue Moon”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz watched Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, and, boy howdy, they have some thoughts about Jeremy Allen White’s portrayal of The Boss of All Bosses).

The films being observed:

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October 23, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Black Phone 2,” “Good Fortune,” and “After the Hunt”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film and wonder aloud what kind of installments of Star Wars we might have gotten had David Fincher or Steven Soderbergh directed them. Oh, you may mock — but the gatekeepers of the Star Wars franchise pondered that very same question. Schedules were set, dinners eaten, drinks drunk, and concepts hashed out before the producers opted for other aesthetes.

Out (and Proud):

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