27 Apr 2026

Beating It: “Michael,” “I Swear,” and “Over Your Dead Body”

By Mike Schulz

There's a line, or rather a lyric, that fully encapsulates what Michael is about, and it's found in Jackson's 1983 smash “Billie Jean”: “And be careful of what you do / 'Cause the lie becomes the truth.”

21 Apr 2026

“The Zone of Interest,” May 7

By Reader Staff

A two-time Academy Award winner The Times deemed a "landmark movie, hugely important, that's unafraid of difficult ideas," writer/director Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest will be screened at the Figge Art Museum on May 7, this powerful 2023 work the latest presentation in the Davenport venue's series of provocative, suspenseful films set in the context of authoritarian fascism.

20 Apr 2026

Bringing the Bandages Back Together: “Lee Cronin's the Mummy,” “Normal,” “Lorne,” and “Busboys”

By Mike Schulz

Probably like a lot of you, upon hearing the title of the latest horror flick to hit cineplexes, my immediate question was “Who the hell is Lee Cronin?!”

18 Mar 2020

A-Z INDEX: Reader Movie Reviews

By Mike Schulz

Numbered Titles / A /  B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z / Special Features

23 Apr 2026

Mike Schulz with Dave & Darren on Planet 93.9 FM

By Reader Staff

Going to the cineplex or staying in and streaming this weekend? Every Thursday morning at 8:15 a.m. you can listen to Mike Schulz dish on recent movie releases & talk smack about Hollywood celebs on Planet 93.9 FM with the fabulous Dave & Darren in the Morning team of Dave Levora and Darren Pitra. The morning crew previews upcoming releases, too. Or you can check the Reader Web site and listen to their latest conversation by the warm glow of your electronic device. Never miss a pithy comment from these three scintillating pundits again

Thursday, April 23: Previews of Michael, Mother Mary, Over Your Dead Body, and I Swear, and discussion of Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Normal, Lorne, and Busboys, the latter easily Mike's least-favorite movie of the decade. If "movie" is even the right word for it.

22 Apr 2026

Now Playing: Friday, April 24, through Thursday, April 30

By Administrator

Now playing at area theaters.

13 Apr 2026

Mock-Doc Shock Talk: “Faces of Death,” “You, Me & Tuscany,” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”

By Mike Schulz

It's the absolute right time for director/co-writer Daniel Goldhaber's new Faces of Death, a tight, scary, unexpectedly crafty meta-commentary built on the notion that we can no longer instinctively believe anything we're shown on-screen. On any screen.

06 Apr 2026

For Better or Worst: “The Drama,” “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” and “Pizza Movie”

By Mike Schulz

Prior to writer/director Kristoffer Borgli's transfixing, deeply uncomfortable A24 romance The Drama, I think you'd have to go back to 1992's The Crying Game to find a film that made you – by which I mean me – quite so antsy to learn its heavily promoted Big Secret.

28 Mar 2026

Beats and Beetz: "They Will Kill You" and "Forbidden Fruits"

By Mike Schulz

Is anyone else exhausted, and continually upset, by this year's plethora of movies in which women get the crap viciously kicked out of them?

23 Mar 2026

Rock and Man, Burnin' Out Their Fuses Up There Alone: “Project Hail Mary,” “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,” and “The Pout-Pout Fish”

By Mike Schulz

Having not read the Andy Weir novel on which their film is based, it's hard to tell if Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were the right directors for the science-fiction adventure Project Hail Mary, or – for the book's many admirers, and maybe a few of us newbies – the absolute wrong ones.

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