I may not have understood all the machinations involved in bringing our aquatic hero back safely, but I believed that Last Breath's helmer and cast knew what they were doing, and in the end, that was far more important.

No one could possibly argue that we need more horror movies these days. But I'd suggest that we could always stand to have more in which characters, at the moment of their passing, go splat.

Returning to Davenport's Galvin Fine Arts Center with their first full St. Ambrose University presentation in more than six years, the gifted professional dancers of Ballet Quad Cities stage their latest, Valentine's-themed iteration of Love Stories on February 22 and 23.

I absolutely adored this funny, nasty, intensely satisfying shiv to the gut knowing its hook in advance. The mind boggles at how much fun I might've had going in unprepared.