Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz talk film and discuss Netflix’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros with something akin to dread.
In theaters:


* Hamnet (dir Chloé Zhao, starr Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn).
* Jay Kelly (dir Noah Baumbach, starr George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, and Billy Crudup).
* Merrily We Roll Along (dir Richard Linklater, starr Paul Mescal, Ben Platt, Beanie Feldstein, Mallory Bechtel, Hannah Cruz, and Lin-Manuel Miranda).
* Fackham Hall (dir Jim O’Hanlon, starr Damian Lewis, Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Radcliffe, Katherine Waterston, Tom Felton, and Jimmy Carr).
* Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (dir Emma Tammi, starr Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Wayne Knight, Mckenna Grace, and Teo Briones).

Coming attractions:

* Ella McCay (dir James L Brooks, starr Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Lowden, Kumail Nanjiani, Ayo Edebiri, Julie Kavner, Spike Fearn, Rebecca Hall, Albert Brooks, and Woody Harrelson).
* Silent Night, Deadly Night (dir Mike P Nelson, starr Rohan Campbell, Ruby Modine, David Lawrence Brown, David Tomlinson, and Mark Acheson).

“Hamnet,” “Jay Kelly,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Fackham Hall,” and “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2”

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz have shook off the Thanksgiving turkey torpor and have reconvened in studio to discuss film with the level of poise, invention, and couthiness that we’ve come to expect from the trio.
Open for business:


* 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).
* Train Dreams (dir Clint Bentley, starr Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins Jr, Kerry Condon, and William H Macy).
* Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (dir Rian Johnson, starr Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church).
* Sentimental Value (dir Joachim Trier, starr Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Elle Fanning).
* Eternity (dir David Freyne, starr Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Callum Turner, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, John Early, and Olga Merediz).
* The animated buddy-cop comedy Zootopia 2 (dirs Jared Bush and Byron Howard, voice Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Shakira, Idris Elba, Alan Tudyk, Nate Torrence, Don Lake, Bonnie Hunt, Jenny Slate, Ke Huy Quan, Fortune Feimster, Andy Samberg, David Strathairn, Patrick Warburton, Quinta Brunson, and Danny Trejo).

Forthcoming:

* Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (dir Emma Tammi, starr Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Wayne Knight, Mckenna Grace, and Teo Briones).
* Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (dir Quentin Tarantino, starr Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Vivica A Fox, Michael Madsen, David Carradine, and Sonny Chiba).
* Hamnet (dir Chloé Zhao, starr Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn).
* Merrily We Roll Along (dir Richard Linklater, starr Paul Mescal, Ben Platt, Beanie Feldstein, Mallory Bechtel, Hannah Cruz, and Lin-Manuel Miranda).
* Fackham Hall (dir Jim O’Hanlon, starr Damian Lewis, Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Radcliffe, Katherine Waterston, Tom Felton, and Jimmy Carr).

“Wicked: For Good,” “Rental Family,” and “Train Dreams”

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”