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October 30, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” “A House of Dynamite,” “Regretting You,” “Shelby Oaks,” and “Blue Moon”

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Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz watched Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, and, boy howdy, they have some thoughts about Jeremy...

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...

October 16, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “The Smashing Machine,” “Anemone,” “Good Boy,” “Tron: Ares,” “Roofman,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” and “John Candy: I Like Me”

Posted October 16, 2025

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

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October 2, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “One Battle After Another,” “The Strangers: Chapter 2,” “Dead of Winter,” and “Eleanor the Great”

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

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September 25, 2025 with Dave and Darren — “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” “Him,” “The Senior,” and “The History of Sound”

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

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