River Cities Reader Podcast

River Cities Reader Podcast


Latest Episodes

June 15, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
June 15, 2023

Mike Schulz, back from holiday, having seenno movies over the break, talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about how man-oh-man good Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was; about how the richnes

Monday June 5, 2023 Davenport City Officials Shift to “Under Investigation Can’t Answer Questions Mode” on The Davenport Building Collapse
June 06, 2023

This podcast is the ten-minute news conference held Monday, June 5, 2023 around 10AM. Only once was the Saturday before the collapse 911 call mentioned, and then only fleetingly, as if an afterthought

Tuesday May 30, 2023 City of Davenport News Conference re The Davenport Hotel Building Collapse
June 01, 2023

This podcast is the one hour news conference held Tuesday May 30, 2023 around 11am inside the Davenport Police Department in downtown Davenport. This is in the wake of the City belaying the demolition

June 1, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “The Little Mermaid,” “You Hurt My Feelings,” “The Starling Girl,” “About My Father,” and “The Machine”
June 01, 2023

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about having missed Kandahar, but he may have dodged a bullet there; otherwise, he saw the majority of the movies discussed last week. About The Lit

May 25, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — "Fast X" and "Master Gardener"
May 25, 2023

Mike Schulz reflects with Dave Levora (the presence of Darren Pitra not in evidence) over his nearly-thirty-year-long writing stint as a film critic for the River Cities Reader (the mid-Nineties wer

May 18, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Book Club: The Next Chapter,” “Hypnotic,” and “BlackBerry”
May 18, 2023

Mike Schulz wants Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about Book Club: The Next Chapter, which he deems a strange movie because its not really a movie: There really isnt a plot that makes sense or is i

May 11, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3” and “Love Again”
May 11, 2023

Mike Schulz wants Dave Levora and Darren Pitra and, by extension, everyone in the known universe to know that he understands the appeal of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3: Its pushin buttons like

May 4, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Big George Foreman,” “Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.,” “Polite Society,” “Sisu,” and “Judy Blume Forever”
May 05, 2023

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about his latest series of fives: Firstly,Big George Foreman, which was pretty decent, rather likeSweetwater, where the story itself is strong e

April 27, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Beau is Afraid,” “Evil Dead Rise,” “Chevalier,” “Guy Ritchie's The Covenant,” and “Somewhere in Queens”
April 27, 2023

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about his second week of fives first, the dream logic of Ari Asters Beau is Afraid, creepy, laugh-out-loud funny, and people are going to hate i

April 20, 2023 Movie Mike on Planet 93.9 with Dave and Darren — “Renfield,” “Nefarious,” “Sweetwater,” “The Pope's Exorcist,” and “Mafia Mamma”
April 20, 2023

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about how the recent run of excellent films has come to an end or, perhaps, sputtered to a temporary stop, awaiting fresh refills of petrol distil