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Mike Schulz is given a moment to extol the virtues of the new Last Picture House before he discusses with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra the movies he has seen — as is their weekly wont.
To whit:
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Mike Schulz discusses with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra the fact that, when you’ve seen nine films since the last time you appeared on the radio, you might need to use lightning rounds. To whit: Continue reading November 30, 2023, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Napoleon,” “Saltburn,” “Wish,” “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” “Trolls Band Together,” “Rustin,” “Next Goal Wins,” “Thanksgiving,” and “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life”
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Mike Schulz discusses with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra the recent incident where the whole of Oppenheimer was posted on Twitter. One presumes it has since been taken down. Director Christopher Nolan has urged fans to hold out for the DVD/Blu Ray version of his film, and, given the uniqueness of the audiovisual spectacle, one is inclined to take his word for it. Getting right into it, Schulz confirms his disengagement from The Marvels, directed Nia DaCosta and starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Park Seo-joon, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh, and Samuel L Jackson — that is, his disengagement from being able to engage fully with the story. Continue reading November 16, 2023, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “The Holdovers,” “The Killer,” “Journey to Bethlehem,” and “The Marvels”
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River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail and his homie, Gary, re recent highlights, both online and within Issue N° 1015. If you’re a dog owner, you’ll definitely want to give it your attention. To whit: Continue reading Todd McGreevy & AD in the Morning on WQUD Discuss the November Edition of River Cities’ Reader
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River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail and his Sancho Panza, Gary, re recent highlights, both online and within Issue N° 1014. The October Reader cover was the occasion for McGreevy to break out his best Transylvanian accent in an effort to make some legitimately scary material a little more, uh, palatable. To whit: Continue reading Todd McGreevy & AD in the Morning on WQUD Discuss the October Edition of River Cities’ Reader
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Mike Schulz confirms with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra that the Reader has a database where you can look up old reviews by Schulz to find out what he thought about, say, The Hateful Eight (which none of them have any love for). Levora and Pitra also comment upon Schulz’s critical industry, because, well, five films requires a lot of time to sit on one’s butt in a dark room staring at a screen, y’know? The first film to test Schulz’s gluteal endurance was Priscilla, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Domińczyk, Tim Post, Continue reading November 9, 2023, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Priscilla,” “Nyad,” “The Marsh King’s Daughter,” “What Happens Later,” and “Fingernails”
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Dave Levora and Darren Pitra tell Mike Schulz how glad they were that Schulz brought his 9-year-old “younger friend” to see Five Nights at Freddy’s. Levora and Pitra’s reasoning is that, much like the Taylor Swift Eras concert film, Freddy’s didn’t seem like a movie made for middle-aged men like them. Directed by Emma Tammi and starring Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard, Freddy’s is a horror film for kids — nothing that’s going to invade the dreams of our intrepid trio. Security guard Mike Schmidt (Hutcherson) stays overnight at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza and finds Continue reading November 2, 2023, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” and “After Death”
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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about his favorite Halloween costume from when he was growing up (a grandfather clock) and his least favorite (a pack of Bubble Yum chewing gum — cool concept, but squat execution, rendering movement difficult). Pitra thought it behooved him to ask Schulz because we will not be hearing from him until after the holiday. The three then discuss the one film Schulz saw this week: Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, and Scott Shepherd. At three-and-a-half hours’ runtime, Continue reading October 26, 2023, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Killers of the Flower Moon,” plus Previews of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” “Freelance,” and “Anatomy of a Fall”
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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the perils of being a movie critic: Namely, holding opinions that run contrary to the popular taste. While he’s a big fan of 1976’s Murder by Death (directed by Robert Moore from a script by Neil Simon and starring Eileen Brennan, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, Estelle Winwood, and Truman Capote), critics remain largely dismissive of what they regard as cornball material — even though a case can be made that there are different levels of cornball, and Continue reading October 19, 2023, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl Shorts, “Fair Play,” and “The Burial”
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Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about how Taylor Swift’s forthcoming concert film Eras Tour will not only benefit fans of Swift (Schulz mentions they’ll be getting better seating), but the AMC theatre-chain, given how the Hollywood actors’ strike knocked the Fall film schedule for six. The upshot of Swift’s having bypassed the major studios to work directly with AMC is that AMC stands to get 43% of every ticket sold (rather than the usual 20% starting-point, escalating every subsequent by 5% — and now you know why theater-chains are eager to hold films over for as long as they can; Continue reading October 12, 2023, on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Stop Making Sense,” “The Exorcist: Believer,” “No One Will Save You,” and “Flora and Son”