19 Jan 2021

“The Maltese Falcon”: 80th-Anniversary Screenings, January 24 and 27

By Reader Staff

Kicking off Fathom Events' seventh-annual TCM Big Screen Classics series in high style, Rave Cinemas Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX will, on January 24 and 27, present screenings of the iconic Humphrey Bogart noir The Maltese Falcon, the legendary screen mystery celebrating its 80th anniversary, and an inclusion on the American Film Institute's list of “100 Greatest American Films of All Time.”

18 Jan 2021

Show and Motel: “One Night in Miami ...”, “Pieces of a Woman,” and “The Marksman”

By Mike Schulz

One Night in Miami … , Regina King's debut as a feature-film director, boasts a premise that sounds like the beginning of a joke: “Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown walk into a motel room … .” Yet while King's adaptation of screenwriter Kemp Powers' stage play is no joke, it is funny, as well as tender, and powerful, and absolutely riveting.

10 Jan 2021

20 for 2020: Favorites from the Year in Movies

By Mike Schulz

I want to put 2020 behind us as much as you all likely do. So in lieu of a lengthy intro to my annual Movies of the Year article, this time with downbeat commentary on delayed releases and shuttered cineplexes and the potential demise of the traditional film experience and everything else we don't want to reflect on, what say we just skip to the good stuff?

04 Jan 2021

Catch-Up and Muster: “Pinocchio,” “Let Them All Talk,” “David Byrne's American Utopia,” “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” “First Cow,” “Another Round,” “Possessor,” and “The Last Blockbuster”

By Mike Schulz

Over the past two weeks, barring review-writing and performing general upkeep on the Reader Web site, I've been on vacation. And I did what many of my fellow stay-cationers likely did during the holidays this year: I watched movies. Lots of movies. A few of them at an actual movie theater.

18 Mar 2020

A-Z INDEX: Reader Movie Reviews, 2000 - 2020

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

20 Jan 2021

Now Playing: Friday, January 22, through Thursday, January 28

By Administrator

Now playing at area theaters.

28 Dec 2020

One Good Guy and Lots of Really Bad Ones: “News of the World” and “Promising Young Woman”

By Mike Schulz

How is it that Tom Hanks portrayed Mister Rogers only last year and has already landed in the role of someone just as upstanding, decent, and effectively communicative with children?

28 Dec 2020

Lassos, Fanny Packs, and All That Jazz: “Wonder Woman 1984” and “Soul”

By Mike Schulz

There might be a perfectly valid, comic-book-related reason for this that I neither know about nor particularly care about. But seriously: Why, in director Patty Jenkins' sequel to her 2017 smash, are we watching a Wonder Woman adventure set in the mid-'80s?

21 Dec 2020

August in December: “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,” “Monster Hunter,” and “Fatale”

By Mike Schulz

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is vital as a recorded piece of American-theatre history, and absolutely indispensable as a Chadwick Boseman farewell. Like Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight, Boseman won't win an Academy Award next spring because he died. He'll win because he was likely going to win regardless.

14 Dec 2020

Save the Last Dance for Them: “The Prom” and “The Midnight Sky”

By Mike Schulz

For most of its length, The Prom is like an early, super-sized Glee episode with 100 percent fewer commercial breaks and 100 percent more Meryl Streep.

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