River Cities Reader Podcast

River Cities Reader Podcast


Latest Episodes

May 22, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” and “Nonnas”
May 22, 2025

Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra throw down on the latest batch of movies: Final Destination: Bloodlines (dirs Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, starr Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Richard Harmon, Owen P

Todd McGreevy & AD in the Morning on WQUD Discuss the May Edition of River Cities’ Reader
May 22, 2025

River Cities Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks with WQUD GM Aaron Dail on May 13, 2025, concerning the May issue of the Reader, Issue 1033. Dail says that anyone who wants to pitch Netflix a serie

May 15, 2025, with Dave and Darren “Clown in a Cornfield,” “Shadow Force,” “Fight or Flight,” and “The Shrouds”
May 15, 2025

Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk film and drop plot twists on the clown movie: This is what Schulz saw: Clown in a Cornfield (dir Eli Craig, starr Katie Douglas, Aaron Abrams, Carson Ma

May 8, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Thunderbolts*,” “Another Simple Favor,” “The Surfer,” “Rust,” “The Accountant 2,” and “Until Dawn”
May 08, 2025

Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra talk film and were talking a lot of film here. Cant wait to see Final Destination Bloodlines: Thunderbolts* (dir Jake Schreier, starr Florence Pugh, Seba

April 24, 2025, with Dave and Darren — “Sinners” and “The Wedding Banquet”
April 24, 2025

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”
April 17, 2025

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”
April 10, 2025

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”
April 03, 2025

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”
March 27, 2025

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
March 25, 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