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April 24, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Sinners” and “The Wedding Banquet”
Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk film, with Schulz enthusing over Sinners. Does anyone really want to celebrate the re-release of Revenge of the Sith? Releases: Sinners (dir Ryan Coogle
April 17, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Warfare,” “The Amateur,” and “Drop”
Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk movies and the lack of any new animated releases on the immediate horizon: Warfare (dirs Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, starr DPharaoh Woon-a-Tai, Will
April 10, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “A Minecraft Movie,” “The Friend,” and “Hell of a Summer”
Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk film and aver the normal run-times of latter-day releases, with the notable exceptions including the forthcoming The Chosen: Last Supper 3 clocking in a
April 3, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Death of a Unicorn,” “The Woman in the Yard,” and “A Working Man”
Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra go yard on the weeks stack of film: Death of a Unicorn (dir Alex Scharfman, starr Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Tea Leoni, and Richard E Grant). Th
March 27, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Snow White,” “The Alto Knights,” “No Other Land,” and “Locked”
Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra love to review movies and ruin each others days in this instance, Dave telling Mike who the lead for the forthcoming Blumhouse Mummy reboot will be. That
Iowa’s HF927 Geoengineering Bill’s Origin Story Feb 11.2025
On February 11, 2025, more than 75 concerned citizens gathered in room 102 at the Iowa state capital for the House Environmental Protection Sub-Committee hearing regarding House File 191 (now HF927 se
March 20, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Black Bag,” “Novocaine,” “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie,” “Opus,” “Omni Loop,” and “The Electric State”
Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk movies, of which there are many, and many of them risible, and probably not by intention: Black Bag (dir Steven Soderbergh, starr Cate Blanchett, Michae
March 13, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Mickey 17,” “In the Lost Lands,” and “The Rule of Jenny Pen”
Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra discuss the films Schulz reviewed as well as the celebrated tunes of their youths and some of their harder-to-explain-away plot developments: Mickey 17 (d
March 6, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Last Breath” and “Riff Raff”
Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra get into it over the latest batch of releases. For a moment, one saw the preview info for In the Lost Lands and thought the Paul Anderson director was Pau
March 3, 2025, with Dave and Darren — BONUS Oscar Dish
Its the morning after the Oscars, and Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra have so much to talk about. Enjoy! Notes on the 2025 Academy Awards Telecast