18 Mar 2024

From Hurt Dogs to Hot Dogs: “Arthur the King,” “Love Lies Bleeding,” “One Life,” “The American Society of Magical Negroes,” and “Snack Shack”

By Mike Schulz

Most people, I think, would agree that box-office returns aren't necessarily an indicator of quality. But it was still a bit disheartening to discover that of the five movies I caught over the weekend, the two I most enjoyed were the titles most likely to leave the area when the new Ghostbusters gobbles up screens this upcoming Friday.

11 Mar 2024

Kenergy: Notes on the 2024 Academy Awards Telecast

By Mike Schulz

Ryan Gosling didn't win an Academy Award last night. But Ryan Gosling totally won the Academy Awards last night.

09 Mar 2024

Teddy Talks: “Imaginary,” “Cabrini,” “Kung Fu Panda 4,” and “20 Days in Mariupol”

By Mike Schulz

Almost no one, in retrospect, likes a misleading trailer, and I don't know anyone who enjoys a trailer that seems to give away a narrative's contents from points A to Z, making you feel like you've seen the movie months before you actually see it. (Ordinary Angels, anyone?) Yet I reserve a special kind of irritation for trailers that wind up almost exhaustively descriptive of the eventual experience simply through the predecessors they choose to plug.

05 Mar 2024

“Boy,” March 21

By Reader Staff

Winner of seven New Zealand Film & Television Awards including Best Film, Director, and Screenplay, and a work whose 2010 release made it the highest grossing New Zealand film to date, writer/director Taiki Waititi's Boy enjoys a March 21 Figge Art Museum screening in the venue's Free Film at the Figge series, its critical consensus at Rotten Tomatoes stating that the movie "possesses the offbeat charm associated with New Zealand film but is also fully capable of drawing the viewer in emotionally."

04 Mar 2024

Don't It Make Their Brown Eyes Blue: “Dune: Part Two” and “Spaceman”

By Mike Schulz

The reasons that even Herbert virgins might want to consider showing up for Dune: Part Two lie less with the tale's specifics than the sorts of massive pleasures that only works of this magnitude provide.

29 Feb 2024

Dr. Stranglehold or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Movie: Predicting the 2024 Academy Award Winners

By Mike Schulz

Can a sweep year at the Oscars also be a spread-the-wealth year at the Oscars?

26 Feb 2024

Coen ... Coen ... Gone: "Drive-Away Dolls" and "Ordinary Angels"

By Mike Schulz

Just what is it going to take for Joel and Ethan Coen to end this silly separation of theirs and get back together? An online petition? A generous gift basket? A promise to reconsider the merits of Intolerable Cruelty?

20 Feb 2024

“Who Are the Marcuses?”, March 3

By Reader Staff

Lauded by the Alliance of Women Journalists as a "must-see" that is "fascinating and eye-opening," director Matthew Mishory's Who Are the Marcuses? enjoys a March 3 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum as the sixth and final presentation in River Action's 2024 QC Environmental Film Series, this special showing hosted by the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities described by the Jewish Journal as "a story about wealth, generosity, innovation, and Israeli pragmatism."

19 Feb 2024

Reggae of Sunshine: “Bob Marley: One Love,” “Madame Web,” and the 2024 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animated and Live Action

By Mike Schulz

Just how good is Kingsley Ben-Adir as the title character in Bob Marley: One Love? So good that I couldn't make out half of what he was saying.

13 Feb 2024

“We the Power,” February 25

By Reader Staff

With the screening of the 39-minute documentary hosted by Augustana College's Student Sierra Club, director David Byars' short film We the Power will enjoy a February 25 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum as the fifth presentation in River Action's 2024 QC Environmental Film Series, the release sponsored by the outdoor-apparel company Patagonia, recognized internationally for its commitment to environmental activism and its contributions of more than $110 million in grants and in-kind donations.

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