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

Posted May 25, 202300:14:37

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...

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

Posted May 18, 202300:15:08

Mike Schulz wants Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about Book Club: The Next Chapter, which he deems “a strange movie” because “it’s not...

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

Posted May 11, 202300:12:21

Mike Schulz wants Dave Levora and Darren Pitra — and, by extension, everyone in the known universe — to know that he understands the appeal...

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”

Posted May 5, 202300:12:39

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about his latest series of fives: Firstly, Big George Foreman, which was “pretty decent,”...

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”

Posted April 27, 202300:14:15

Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about his second week of fives — first, the dream logic of Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid,...