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”