River Cities Reader Podcast

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”

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz have reunited, and it feels so good. So good, it seems, that they can brook any amount of disappointment, so long as it’s baked into a given film’s story, and not the natural product of a crappy directorial execution.

The latest releases:

Those that are en route:

“The Roses,” “Caught Stealing,” “The Toxic Avenger,” and “The Thursday Murder Club”

Dave Levora and Mike Schulz sit around wondering, “Where’s Darren?” (Chicago, concert) and “Does Jaws still hold up?” (seeing how it’s been re-released on its fiftieth anniversary, it’s still an aesthetic judgment, but c’mon):

Under review:

Forthcoming:

Honey Funny Runny Money: “Honey Don’t!,” “Eden,” “Relay,” and “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley”

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:

The stuff that’s coming:

“Nobody 2,” “Americana,” and “Shin Godzilla”