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

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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 — but the gatekeepers of the Star Wars franchise pondered that very same question. Schedules were set, dinners eaten, drinks drunk, and concepts hashed out before the producers opted for other aesthetes.

Out (and Proud):

  • Black Phone 2 (dir Scott Derrickson, starr Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and Demián Bichir).
  • Good Fortune (dir Aziz Ansari, starr AA, Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, Keke Palmer, and Sandra Oh).
  • Truth and Treason (dir Matt Whitaker, starr Ewan Horrocks, Ferdinand McKay, Daf Thomas, Nye Occomore, and Rupert Evans).
  • Daniela Miller’s five-part Amazon docuseries Mr Scorcese.

    • Previews:

    • Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (dir Scott Cooper, starr Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, and Odessa Young).
    • Regretting You (dir Josh Boone, starr Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco, Mason Thames, Sam Morelos, Scott Eastwood, Willa Fitzgerald, and Clancy Brown.)
    • Shelby Oaks (dir Chris Stuckmann, starr Camille Sullivan, Brendan Sexton III, Keith David, Sarah Durn, Robin Bartlett, and Michael Beach).
    • Blue Moon (dir Richard Linklater, starr Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Jonah Lees).

      • A House of Dynamite (dir Kathryn Bigelow, starr Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, and Tracy Letts).

      “Black Phone 2,” “Good Fortune,” and “After the Hunt”

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