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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra discuss films that you shouldn’t see with your parents. These are the Blue Velvets of the Twen-Tennies:
The reviewed:
July 31, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” “The Home,” and “House on Eden”
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra discuss the week’s haul of film and get really analytical on the subject of the forthcoming Together:
The reviewed:
Continue reading July 31, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” “The Home,” and “House on Eden”
July 24, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Eddington,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” and “Smurfs”
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra know what you did last summer. ‘Fess up: You were living at the movies, weren’t you?
Let’s get into it.
The films:
July 17, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Smurfs,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” and “Eddington”
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk films — mostly reboots (including James Gunn’s Superman, starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, and Isabela Merced). They also talk about Jaws, whose fiftieth anniversary is being celebrated with a new documentary (Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story). Pitra tells his colleagues that he saw Sinners (dir Ryan Coogler, starr Michael B Jordan in two roles, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo) and informs Schulz that it’s merely okay, rather than some rapturous out-of-body experience:
The movies:
Tanawah Downing Interview with Todd McGreevy, June 27, 2025
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The River Cities’ Reader’s July 2025 cover story was prompted by two civil rights activists who spoke during public with business at the Davenport City Council meeting on June 25, 2025. As of July 5, 2025 that video previously available the evening of the council meeting and for days afterwards at the city’s website is no longer available. The activist Tanawah Downing has published he and his partner Jessica Saxton’s remarks to the city council at their Facebook and that can be seen at www.rcreader.com/y/tanawah. Their presentation June 25, prompted the Reader to secure an interview with Tanawah Downing a couple days later. Continue reading Tanawah Downing Interview with Todd McGreevy, June 27, 2025
July 3, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “F1: The Movie” and “M3GAN 2.0”
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk about cinema and the New York Times‘ 100 best movies of the millennium. And Superman.
What’s in:
Continue reading July 3, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “F1: The Movie” and “M3GAN 2.0”
June 26, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “28 Years Later,” “Elio,” and “Bride Hard”
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk cinema, discuss rumblings of Andor, anticipate the fourth season of The Bear, and declare their united love of air-conditioning.
The films:
Continue reading June 26, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “28 Years Later,” “Elio,” and “Bride Hard”
June 19, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Materialists,” and “The Life of Chuck”
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk film like nobody’s business. Concerning Bride Hard, of which Schulz says, “You know someone’s gonna wind up dead in the punch bowl,” that “someone” might be you.
The films:
June 12, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Ballerina,” “The Phoenician Scheme,” and “Dangerous Animals”
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra discuss all things cinematic. Hey, you remember Tim Key’s turn as Pigeon Man in Mickey 17? Dave surely does. . .
The films:
June 5, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Karate Kid: Legends,” “Bring Her Back,” and “Mountainhead”
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Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra discuss films and why some of them exist. Sometimes, there are no easy answers to that question.
Films: