Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz prepare for next week’s holiday by going over the stuff out there, both in theaters and streaming. Anyone who watched Angus Wall’s Netflix doc on Eddie Murphy, Being Eddie, expecting earth-splitting, scandalous revelations that will make you rethink your whole conception of what it means to be Eddie Muprhy, clearly doesn’t know that celebrities like Eddie Murphy don’t sign deals with Netflix expecting their soiled undies to be paraded before the world. That’s something we all learn to come to grips with, eventually — no?

What’s up:

What will be up:

“The Running Man,” “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,” “Keeper,” “Nouvelle Vague,” “Being Eddie,” and “The Perfect Neighbor”

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz discuss film and ponder its mysteries — all for the cinematographically illiterate folk in the world. Job’s a good ‘un.

The reviewed:

The forthcoming:

“Predator: Badlands,” “Frankenstein,” “Nuremberg,” “Die My Love,” “Christy,” and “It Was Just an Accident”

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz have a lot more films to catch than they’ve seen thus far. Frankenstein is already on Netflix, so you know.

What’s in theaters:

Forthcoming:

“Bugonia,” “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” “Hedda,” “Ballad of a Small Player,” and “KPop Demon Hunters”

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

The films being observed:

The films waiting to be observed (ie previews):

“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” “A House of Dynamite,” “Regretting You,” “Shelby Oaks,” and “Blue Moon”

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):

Previews:

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”

Back after their successful world tour last week, Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film.

The here:

The forthcoming:

“The Smashing Machine,” “Anemone,” “Good Boy”

“Tron: Ares,” “Roofman,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” and “John Candy: I Like Me”

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film. They will be taking holiday next week, so no new talk until 16 October.

What’s in the theaters:

What’s on its way:

“One Battle After Another,” “The Strangers: Chapter 2,” “Dead of Winter,” and “Eleanor the Great”

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz discuss film in their own inimitable idiomatic fashion.

The here:

The coming:

“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” “Him,” “The Senior,” and “The History of Sound”

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz chit the chat over film — in particular, both generations of Spinal Tap.

The reviewed:

The forthcoming:

“Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” and “The Long Walk”

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film. Schulz talks about The War of the Gargantuas, the 1966 kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, which does sound very enjoyable — perhaps even more than what we’ve seen of late.

What’s on:

What’s on presently:

“The Conjuring: Last Rites,” “Highest 2 Lowest,” and “Twinless”