01 Jan 2025

Tennis, Everyone?: Reminiscences on the 2024 Movie Year

By Mike Schulz

If you're a film fan and merely looked at domestic box-office revenue, it would be easy to get depressed about the state of movies – or, maybe more accurately, the state of current moviegoing habits.

14 Dec 2024

Animal Instinct: Iowa City Author Rachel Yoder Explores Perils and Joys of Motherhood at Davenport Screening

By Jonathan Turner

Just nine years after earning her second Master of Fine Arts degree, writer and University of Iowa instructor Rachel Yoder sold her first novel, and then the film rights, a year before it was even published.

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?

23 Jan 2024

The 2024 Academy Awards Nominations

By Mike Schulz

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

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!

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.

30 Nov 2023

Picture This!: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods Bring the Communal Film Experience to Davenport with The Last Picture House

By Mike Schulz

The deservedly lauded homegrown talents Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are clearly In Demand, which makes it all the more impressive and special that they would dedicate time, money, and resources to giving the Quad Cities what we've sorely lacked: a beautiful, conveniently located establishment devoted to the collective moviegoing experience that will provide, as Beck and Woods insist, something for everyone, and on a weekly basis.

13 Mar 2023

Lots of Things in One Place Over 220 Minutes: Notes on the 2023 Academy Awards Telecast

By Mike Schulz

Before getting to the awards – and one particular movie gave us loads to talk about on that front – let me begin by addressing the event itself, because last night's 95th Annual Oscars telecast was a little boring. Intentionally, gloriously, blessedly boring.

01 Mar 2023

The Everything Bagel, with Locks: Predicting the 2023 Academy Award Winners

By Mike Schulz

It feels odd to preface a lengthy article devoted to my predictions for the 95th Annual Academy Awards by asking you to not listen to me. But this year? If you want to win your Oscars pool? Don't listen to me.

24 Jan 2023

The 2023 Academy Awards Nominations

By Mike Schulz

While the announcement itself provided a bunch of welcome confirmations and surprises, as well as the obligatory less-welcome ones, the most gratifying thing about the roughly 20-minute presentation of Oscar nominees was our again being able to hear in-the-moment gasps, whoops, and even, for one category, laughs with the lists of names and titles. Especially titles. But we'll get to that.

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