River Cities Reader Podcast

River Cities Reader Podcast


Latest Episodes

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

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film and discuss Netflixs potential acquisition of Warner Bros with something akin to dread. In theaters: Hamnet (dir Chlo Zhao, starr Jessie Buckley,

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”
December 04, 2025

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 weve com

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”
November 20, 2025

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz prepare for next weeks holiday by going over the stuff out there, both in theaters and streaming. Anyone who watched Angus Walls Netflix doc on Eddie Murph

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

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz discuss film and ponder its mysteries all for the cinematographically illiterate folk in the world. Jobs a good un. The reviewed: Predator: Badlands (dir

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”
November 10, 2025

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz have a lot more films to catch than theyve seen thus far. Frankenstein is already on Netflix, so you know. Whats in theaters: Bugonia (dir Yorgos Lanthimos

October 30, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” “A House of Dynamite,” “Regretting You,” “Shelby Oaks,” and “Blue Moon”
November 02, 2025

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

October 23, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Black Phone 2,” “Good Fortune,” and “After the Hunt”
October 25, 2025

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

October 16, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “The Smashing Machine,” “Anemone,” “Good Boy,” “Tron: Ares,” “Roofman,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” and “John Candy: I Like Me”
October 16, 2025

Back after their successful world tour last week, Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film. The here: The Smashing Machine (dir Benny Safdie, starr Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader,

October 2, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “One Battle After Another,” “The Strangers: Chapter 2,” “Dead of Winter,” and “Eleanor the Great”
October 02, 2025

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film. They will be taking holiday next week, so no new talk until 16 October. Whats in the theaters: One Battle After Another (dir Paul Thomas Anderson

September 25, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” “Him,” “The Senior,” and “The History of Sound”
September 25, 2025

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz discuss film in their own inimitable idiomatic fashion. The here: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (dir Kogonada, starr Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline