River Cities Reader Podcast

August 21, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Nobody 2,” “Americana,” and “Shin Godzilla”
Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz are looking forward to weeks to come, as the balance of previews to available films is hopelessly lopsided this time around.
The stuff that’s here:
- Nobody 2 (dir Timo Tjahjanto, starr Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, RZA, Colin Salmon, Gage Munroe, Paisley Cadorath, Christopher Lloyd, John Ortiz, Colin Hanks, and Sharon Stone).
- The re-release of Shin Godzilla (dirs Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, starr Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, and Satomi Ishihara).
- Americana (dir Tony Tost, starr Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, Eric Dane, Zahn McClarnon, and Simon Rex).
The stuff that’s coming:
- Primitive War (dir Luke Sparke, starr Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler, and Jeremy Piven).
- Eden (dir Ron Howard, starr Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney, Daniel Brühl, Felix Kammerer, Toby Wallace, and Richard Roxburgh).
- Trust (dir Carlson Young, starr Sophie Turner, Rhys Coiro, Billy Campbell, and Peter Mensah).
- Relay (dir David Mackenzie, starr Riz Ahmed, Lily James, and Sam Worthington).
- Honey, Don’t! (dir Ethan Coen, starr Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Charlie Day, Kristen Connolly, Gabby Beans, and Talia Ryder).
- The animated fantasy adventure comedy Ne Zha II (dir Jiaozi, voice [English] Crystal Lee, Aleks Le, Michelle Yeoh, Vincent Rodriguez III, Rick Zeiff, Damien Haas, and Griffin Puatu).
- The documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley (dir Amy Berg).
- The animated urban fantasy sing-along KPop Demon Hunters (dir Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, voice Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Lee Byung-hun
- The thirty-fifth anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (dir Steve Barron, starr Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, and the voices of Brian Tochi, Josh Pais, Corey Feldman, and Robbie Rist).