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:


* The Running Man (dir Edgar Wright, starr Glen Powell, William H Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin).
* Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (dir Ruben Fleischer, starr Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman, Lizzy Caplan, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, and Rosamund Pike).
* Keeper (dir Osgood Perkins, starr Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland).
* Richard Linklater’s Netflix series Nouvelle Vague (starr Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Bruno Dreyfürst, Benjamin Clery, Matthieu Penchinat, Pauline Belle, Blaise Pettebone, Benoît Bouthors, Paolo Luka Noé, Adrien Rouyard, Jade Phan-Gia, Jodie Ruth-Forest, Antoine Besson, Franck Cicurel, Roxane Rivière, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier, Côme Thieulin, Laurent Mothe, Jonas Marmy, and Niko Ravel).
* Angus Wall’s Netflix documentary on Eddie Murphy, Being Eddie.
* Geeta Gandbhir about the killing of Ajike Owens, The Perfect Neighbor (streaming, incidentally, on Netflix).

What will be up:

* Wicked: For Good (dir Jon M Chu, starr Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, and Colman Domingo).
* Rental Family (dir Hikari, starr Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Mahina Gorman, and Akira Emoto).
* Sisu: Road to Revenge (dir Jalmari Helander, starr Aatami Korpi, Stephen Lang, and Richard Brake).

“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:


* Predator: Badlands (dir Dan Trachtenberg, starr Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Reuben De Jong, Mike Homik, Rohinal Narayan, Cameron Brown, Alison Wright, and the voices of Matt and Ross Duffer).
* Frankenstein on Netflix (dir Guillermo del Toro, starr Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz).
* Nuremberg (dir James Vanderbilt, starr Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O’Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E Grant, and Michael Shannon).
* Die My Love (dir Lynne Ramsay, starr Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek).
* Christy (dir David Michôd, starr Sydney Sweeney, Ben Foster, Merritt Weaver, Katy O’Brian, Ethan Embry, and Chad L Coleman).
* It Was Just an Accident (dir Jafar Panahi, starr Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, Delnaz Najafi, Afssaneh Najmabadi, and Georges Hashemzadeh).

The forthcoming:

* The Running Man (dir Edgar Wright, starr Glen Powell, William H Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin).
* Keeper (dir Osgood Perkins, starr Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland).
* Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (dir Ruben Fleischer, starr Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman, Lizzy Caplan, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, and Rosamund Pike).

“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:


* Bugonia (dir Yorgos Lanthimos, starr Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone).
* If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (dir Mary Bronstein, starr Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater, and ASAP Rocky).
* Hedda (dir Nia DaCosta, starr Tessa Thompson, Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, and Nina Hoss).
* Ballad of a Small Player (dir Edward Berger, starr Colin Farrell, Fala Chen, Deanie Ip, Alex Jennings, and Tilda Swinton).
* The animated musical urban fantasy KPop Demon Hunters (dirs Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, voice Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Lee Byung-hun).

Forthcoming:

* Predator: Badlands (dir Dan Trachtenberg, starr Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Reuben De Jong, Mike Homik, Rohinal Narayan, Cameron Brown, Alison Wright, and the voices of Matt and Ross Duffer).
* Christy (dir David Michôd, starr Sydney Sweeney, Ben Foster, Merritt Weaver, Katy O’Brian, Ethan Embry, and Chad L Coleman).
* Die My Love (dir Lynne Ramsay, starr Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte, and Sissy Spacek).
* Nuremberg (dir James Vanderbilt, starr Rami Malek, Russell Crowe, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O’Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E Grant, and Michael Shannon).
* Sarah’s Oil (dir Cyrus Nowrasteh, starr Zachary Levi, Naya Desir-Johnson, Sonequa Martin-Green, and Garret Dillahunt).
* It Was Just an Accident (dir Jafar Panahi, starr Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, Delnaz Najafi, Afssaneh Najmabadi, and Georges Hashemzadeh).
* Frankenstein on Netflix (dir Guillermo del Toro, starr Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz).
* Train Dreams (dir Clint Bentley, starr Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr, Kerry Condon, and William H Macy).
* Karen Kingsbury’s The Christmas Ring (dir KK, starr Jana Kramer, Greyston Holt, Kelsey Grammer, and Jessie James Decker).

“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:


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


* 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).
* Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (dir Scott Cooper, starr Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, and Odessa Young).

The films waiting to be observed (ie previews):

* Bugonia (dir Yorgos Lanthimos, starr Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone).
* The animated monster comedy Stitch Head (dir Steve Hudson, voice Asa Butterfield, Joel Fry, Tia Bannon, Rob Brydon, Seth Usdenov, Alison Steadman, Fern Brady, and Jamali Maddix).
* Anniversary (dir Jan Komasa, starr Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Dynevor, Mckenna Grace, Daryl McCormack, and Dylan O’Brien).

“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):


* 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”

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


* The Smashing Machine (dir Benny Safdie, starr Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, and Oleksandr Usyk).


* Anemone (dir Ronan Day-Lewis, starr Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, and Safia Oakley-Green).
* Good Boy (dir Ben Leonberg, starr Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, and Larry Fessenden).
*  Tron Ares (dir Joachim Rønning, starr Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, Gillian Anderson, and Jeff Bridges).
* Roofman (dir Derek Cianfrance, starr Kirsten Dunst, Ben Mendelsohn, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, Melonie Diaz, Uzo Aduba, Lily Collias, Jimmy O Yang, and Peter Dinklage).
* Kiss of the Spider Woman (dir Bill Condon, starr Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, and Jennifer Lopez).
* Colin Hanks’s documentary John Candy: I Like Me, available currently on Amazon.

The forthcoming:

* 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).

“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:


* One Battle After Another (dir Paul Thomas Anderson, starr Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti).
* The Strangers — Chapter 2 (dir Renny Harlin, starr Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, and Ema Horvath).
* Dead of Winter (dir Brian Kirk, starr Emma Thompson, Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca, Laurel Marsden, and Brían F O’Byrne).
* Eleanor the Great (dir Scarlett Johansson, starr June Squibb, Erin Kellyman, Jessica Hecht, and Chiwetel Ejiofor).

What’s on its way:

* The Smashing Machine (dir Benny Safdie, starr Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, and Oleksandr Usyk).
* Good Boy (dir Ben Leonberg, starr Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, and Larry Fessenden).
* Anemone (dir Ronan Day-Lewis, starr Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Samuel Bottomley, and Safia Oakley-Green).

“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:


* A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (dir Kogonada, starr Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge).


* Him (dir Justin Tipping, starr Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, and Tim Heidecker).
* The Senior (dir Rod Lurie, starr Michael Chiklis, Mary Stuart Masterson, Brandon Flynn, James Badge Dale, and Rob Corddry).
* The History of Sound (dir Oliver Hermanus, starr Paul Mescal, Chris Cooper, Josh O’Connor, Molly Price, Raphael Sbarge, Hadley Robinson, Emma Canning, Emily Bergl, Briana Middleton, Gary Raymond, Alison Bartlett, and Michael Schantz).

The coming:

* One Battle After Another (dir Paul Thomas Anderson, starr Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti).
* The Strangers — Chapter 2 (dir Renny Harlin, starr Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, and Ema Horvath).
* Eleanor the Great (dir Scarlett Johansson, starr June Squibb, Erin Kellyman, Jessica Hecht, and Chiwetel Ejiofor).
* Dead of Winter (dir Brian Kirk, starr Emma Thompson, Judy Greer, Marc Menchaca, Laurel Marsden, and Brían F O’Byrne).

“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:


* Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (dir Simon Curtis, starr Paul Giamatti, Dominic West, Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale, and Arty Froushan).
* The Long Walk (dir Francis Lawrence, starr Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Jordan Gonzalez, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill).
* Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (dir Rob Reiner, starr Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Fran Drescher, Don Lake, John Michael Higgins, Jason Acuña, Nina Conti, Griffin Matthews, Kerry Godliman, Chris Addison, Brad Williams, Paul Shaffer, Kathreen Khavari, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Garth Brooks, Questlove, Trisha Yearwood, Chad Smith, and Lars Ulrich).

The forthcoming:

* A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (dir Kogonada, starr Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge).
* Him (dir Justin Tipping, starr Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, and Tim Heidecker).
* The Senior (dir Rod Lurie, starr Michael Chiklis, Mary Stuart Masterson, Brandon Flynn, James Badge Dale, and Rob Corddry).
* Afterburn (dir J J Perry, starr Dave Bautista, Samuel L. Jackson, Olga Kurylenko and Kristofer Hivju).

“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:


* The Conjuring: Last Rites (dir Michael Chaves, starr Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Mia Tomlinson, Ben Hardy, Rebecca Calder, Elliot Cowan, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Beau Gadsdon, Molly Cartwright, Tilly Walker, Peter Wight, and Kate Fahy).
* Highest 2 Lowest (dir Spike Lee, starr Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice).
* Twinless (dir James Sweeney, starr Sweeney, Dylan O’Brien, Aisling Franciosi, Lauren Graham, Tasha Smith, Chris Perfetti, François Arnaud, Susan Park, and Cree Cicchino).

What’s on presently:

* Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (dir Simon Curtis, starr Paul Giamatti, Dominic West, Joely Richardson, Alessandro Nivola, Simon Russell Beale, and Arty Froushan).
* The Long Walk (dir Francis Lawrence, starr Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Jordan Gonzalez, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill).
* Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (dir Rob Reiner, starr Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Fran Drescher, Don Lake, John Michael Higgins, Jason Acuña, Nina Conti, Griffin Matthews, Kerry Godliman, Chris Addison, Brad Williams, Paul Shaffer, Kathreen Khavari, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Garth Brooks, Questlove, Trisha Yearwood, Chad Smith, and Lars Ulrich).

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