April 9, 2026, with Dave and Darren — “The Drama,” “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” and “Pizza Movie”

Dave Levora, Darren Pitra, and Mike Schulz remain besotted by the forthcoming Oscar ceremony while still managing to discuss cinema both in-house and on the make. Levora’s case that The Drama would win an Oscar for Best Trailer has left folks wondering if there should be a whole different award ceremony to celebrate the work of the advertisers in selling those films to the moviegoing public. What would we call them? The Mopies (a shortening of “Motion Picture Arts and Sciences”)? Would the statuettes be cast in an Art Nouveau mold to contrast it with the Oscars’ Art Deco style? All very worthwhile questions. In-house: The Drama (dir Kristoffer Borgli, starr starr Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Mamoudou Athie, Alana Haim, Hailey Gates, Sydney Lemmon, Zoë Winters, Anna Baryshnikov, and Michael Abbott Jr). The animated action-adventure comedy The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (dirs Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, voice Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Benny Safdie, Donald Glover, Glen Powell, and Brie Larson). Pizza Movie (dirs Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, starr Gaten Matarazzo, Sean Giambrone, Lulu Wilson, Jack Martin, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Marcus Scribner, Caleb Hearon, Sarah Sherman, Justin Cooley, and Daniel Radcliffe). Out-house: You, Me, and Tuscany (dir Kat Coiro, starr Halle Bailey, Regé-Jean Page, Marco Calvani, Lorenzo de Moor, Aziza Scott, Nia Vardalos, Isabella Ferrari, and Emanuele Pacca). Beast (dir Tyler Atkins, starr Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth, Daniel MacPherson, Mojean Aria, Kelly Gale, George Burgess, Bren Foster, Saphira Moran, and Amy Shark). Faces of Death (dir Daniel Goldhaber, starr Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and Charli XCX). “The Drama,” “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” and “Pizza Movie”