16 Jan 2024

“Moved by Waters,” January 27

By Reader Staff

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.

16 Jan 2024

“Last Paddle?”, January 28

By Reader Staff

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.

15 Jan 2024

clique … clique … Boom!: “Mean Girls,” “American Fiction,” “The Book of Clarence,” “The Beekeeper,” and “Night Swim”

By Mike Schulz

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.

13 Jan 2024

Predicting the 2024 Academy Award Nominations

By Mike Schulz

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!

09 Jan 2024

“All That Breathes,” January 21

By Reader Staff

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.”

09 Jan 2024

“Resurrecting Forest Grove,” January 18

By Reader Staff

With the event held not long after the celebration of the building's 150th anniversary and the decade-long rehabilitation of historic Forest Grove School Number Five, Kelly and Tammy Rundle of the Moline-based Fourth Wall Films will screen their documentary Resurrecting Forest Grove at the Bettendorf Public Library on January 18, this special presentation a program in the library's popular Community Connections series.

08 Jan 2024

Manifest Destiny: “Society of the Snow,” “Good Grief,” “Foe,” and “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”

By Mike Schulz

It arrived a few days late, but the undisputed movie tearjerker of 2023 finally landed in '24 with Thursday's Netflix debut of Society of the Snow, writer/director J.A. Bayona's foreign-language survival thriller about the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 disaster.

01 Jan 2024

Up and Anatomy!: Reminiscences on the 2023 Movie Year

By Mike Schulz

Either 2023 was a particularly outstanding year for movies or my standards are getting lower – though I suppose both could be true.

29 Dec 2023

Sing, Celie, and Deliver: “The Color Purple,” “Ferrari,” and “Leave the World Behind”

By Mike Schulz

In its new musical incarnation, The Color Purple isn't a very good movie. But I'm not sure how much that matters.

23 Dec 2023

From Bernstein to Frankenstein: “Maestro,” “Migration,” “Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom,” “Anyone but You,” “The Iron Claw,” and “Poor Things”

By Mike Schulz

I didn't “attend” the first film in my three-day sextuple feature so much as “plop my ass on the couch and watch” it. And for the first hour-or-so of director/writer/producer/star Bradley Cooper's Maestro, which started streaming on Netflix this past Wednesday, I couldn't imagine wanting to be anywhere else.

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