Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about his gratitude that Inside Out 2 is still going great guns at the box office. The film’s animated depiction of a panic attack has drawn plaudits from people who suffer from panic attacks, who say it speaks fairly accurately to their experience (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/movies/inside-out-anxiety-adults.html).

The movies he’s seen were:

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• The Bikeriders, a circa-Sixties crime drama, directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, and Norman Reedus. Goodfellas on two wheels, with three impossibly-hot lead actors. “A breezy two hours,” Schulz said.
  
• Thelma, directed by Josh Margolin and starring June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg, and Malcolm McDowell. No unicorns in this one. Worth catching this week
  
• The Exorcism, directed by Joshua John Miller and starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, Adrian Pasdar, and David Hyde Pierce. Less than a year ago, Crowe was the lead cleric in The Pope’s Exorcist; here, RC portrays an actor portraying a cleric. At present, 29% of critics polled ℅ Rotten Tomatoes recognize this film as having any reason whatsoever for existing. Schulz found it enjoyable until the halfway point, where things become silly — which has become par the course for Exorcist-related sequels.
  
• Tell Them That You Love Me is a really well-made Netflix true-crime documentary that Levora thought unbearable. The series concerns the case against Anna Stubblefield, a Rutgers University professor convicted in 2015 of sexually abusing Derrick Johnson, a nonverbal man. Your call, folks.
  

The previews:

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• A Quiet Place: Day One, directed by Michael Sarnoski (who conceived of the first film with John Krasinski) and starring Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, and Djimon Hounsou. Sarnoski will be in town this weekend for a Q&A at the Last Picture House.
  
• Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1, directed by Kevin Costner and starring KC, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jeff Fahey, Will Patton, Tatanka Means, Owen Crow Shoe, Ella Hunt, Jamie Campbell Bower, and Thomas Haden Church. A Costner Western that will the first of a three-parter, assuming enough folks think the first worth watching.
  

“The Bikeriders,” “The Exorcism,” and “Thelma”