Lauded by the Washington Blade as a "visceral yet lyrical film" and by The Movie Isle as "a strange ride, but in the best possible way," writer/director Jeremiah Zagar's coming-of-age drama We the Animals enjoys a February 15 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, this critically hailed work the recipient of the Sundance NEXT Innovator Award and a nominee for five 2019 Independent Spirit Awards.

The rare intellectual exercise that's also an emotional gut punch, writer/director Ava DuVernay's Origin delivers its most emblematic sequence toward the end of its 140 minutes, when all of the movie's many varied themes seem to intertwine in a heartrending, enraging true tale about a little boy and a swimming pool.

This morning's announcement of contenders for the 96th Annual Academy Awards was da bomb. Kind of literally.

A fascinating and inspiring documentary about the world’s first known “giraffologist," The Woman Who Loves Giraffes will enjoy a February 4 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum as the third presentation in River Action's 2024 QC Environmental Film Series, this beautiful nature exploration a Best Documentary and Audience Award recipient at the Sonoma International Film Festival, as well as the Best Feature Film winner at the Global Science Film Festival.

I.S.S. is exactly what an edgy, professionally rendered January debut should be: 90 minutes long. Is it good? Yes. Is it great? No. Is there any reason to complain about that? Hell, no.

Demonstrating that what unites us is more important than what divides us, the Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films turn their documentary lens on their Quad Cities home base in the Putnam Museum & Science Center's January 27 premiere of Moved by Waters, enabling viewers to discover a network of people and organizations working toward improved water quality in the Upper Mississippi watershed.

Screened as the second presentation in River Action's 2024 QC Environmental Film Series, the acclaimed documentary Last Paddle? will enjoy a January 28 showing in the John Deere Auditorium of Davenport's Figge Art Museum, this inspirational, visually stunning film chronicling the amazing journey of renowned river advocate Mark Angelo, who has paddled more than 1,000 rivers in well over 100 countries.

If you liked the 2004 version, you almost can't help but enjoy this latest one, because it's the same movie, albeit with songs.

It's time again for my Oscar-nomination predictions! My annual article in which I hope you forget a large portion of it five seconds after the actual nominees are revealed!

A 2023 Academy Award nominee that currently boasts a 99-percent “freshness” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Shaunak Sen's documentary All That Breathes serves as the first presentation in 2024 QC Environmental Film Series hosted by River Action, its January screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum demonstrating why the Hollywood Reporter's Daniel Fienberg decreed the film "one of the more dreamily provocative documentaries I’ve ever seen.”

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