You, Me & Tuscany
Aledo Opera House, Aledo IL
Blue Grass Drive-in, Blue Grass IA
Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Davenport IA
FilmScene, Iowa City IA
The Last Picture House, Davenport IA
Marcus Sycamore Cinema, Iowa City IA
Putnam Museum & Science Center, Davenport IA
VIP Cinemas, Moline IL
Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Delmar IA
(Hyperlinked titles take you to Reader reviews; IMDb hyperlinks take you to the films’ Internet Movie Database pages or other sites with film information.)
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Apollo 13 (PG; Aledo Opera House: Friday, April 10, through Sunday, April 12) - IMDb listing.
Beast (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
BTS World Tour 'Arirang' in Goyang: Live Viewing (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Saturday, April 11) - IMDb listing.
The Business of Fancydancing (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Tuesday, April 14, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
ChaO (not rated; Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Christiane F. (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, April 11, 3:30 p.m., and Thursday, April 16, 6:30 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Dacoit: A Love Story (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
The Drama (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - It's been many months since I've felt so (wonderfully) anxiously unsettled at the cineplex. IMDb listing.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (PG; VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Exit 8 (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Faces of Death (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Go (R; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, April 11, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
GOAT (PG; VIP Cinemas) - Advertising the film as “from the artists that made KPop Demon Hunters and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is really just a grabby way of saying GOAT kind of looks like them, but the animation does have some visual kick, and the script provides a number of decent verbal gags. IMDb listing.
A Great Awakening (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
The Greatest Showman (PG; Aledo Opera House: Thursday, April 16, 6 p.m.) - When this bio-pic remembers it's a musical, it's pretty great, yet that doesn't happen as often as you might want, and you can easily imagine star Hugh Jackman standing just off-screen, poking the director with a stick and asking, “How about a song and dance now?” IMDb listing.
Gremlins (PG; Voy 61 Drive In Theatre: Thursday, April 16) - IMDb listing.
Hoppers (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - I did not expect this 105-minute charmer to be so unfailingly hilarious, nor for it to be Disney/Pixar's non-sequel high point since 2020's underrated Onward, or perhaps even 2015's Inside Out. IMDb listing.
Hunting Matthew Nichols (R; VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Jerry Maguire: 30th Anniversary (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Legends of the Lost Ark (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Miroirs No. 3 (not rated; FilmScene on the Ped Mall) - IMDb listing.
Oceans (G; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - The movie's 85 minutes occasionally crawl by as deliberately as its sea-floor denizens, yet it's hard to be too disappointed by a film that provides so many extraordinary sights. IMDb listing.
Over Your Dead Body: Early-Access Screening (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Wednesday, April 15, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
The Pout-Pout Fish (PG; VIP Cinemas) - it's hard to tell if little kids have a terrific time at this aquatic adventure, or if they'll watch the proceedings as quietly as I did, only breaking the silence to ask, “Mommy, isn't this just Finding Nemo, but not as good?” IMDb listing.
Project Hail Mary (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, FilmScene on the Ped Mall, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Phil Lord's and Christopher Miller's sci-fi outing is a lot of fun, but given its scenario, is the focus on humor, which at times lapses into pure shtick, more hindrance than help? IMDb listing.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas) - This horror-comedy followup proves all-too resistible, its biggest shock being the leads' inability to just shut the hell up and enjoy the demented ride. IMDb listing.
Reminders of Him (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - This latest Colleen Hover romangtic melodrama is more surprisingly tough-minded than it needed to be, the leads share genuine chemistry, and I didn't feel like a sap for letting a few admittedly manipulated tears roll down my cheeks. IMDb listing.
The Royal Ballet: Giselle (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas: Sunday, April 12, and Monday, April 13) - IMDb listing.
Scream 7 (R; VIP Cinemas) - Depressing as hell, because this preposterous, frequently insulting continuation – easily the series' low point – also netted the Scream franchise its highest opening-weekend grosses to date. IMDb listing.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Barring one repeated gag involving a slow-moving robot that appears air-lifted in from the Zootopia DMV, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single legitimate joke – and that's with Jack Black reprising his role IMDb listing.
Superpower Dogs (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Daniel Ferguson provides enough globe-trotting action for a James Bond flick, treating us to first-rate training footage and re-created missions in locales ranging from the Canadian Rockies to the Italian coast to a debris-strewn site near New York's Ground Zero. IMDb listing.
T. Rex (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
The Theatre Bizarre (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, April 15, 10 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Twin Peaks: The Return - Parts 7 & 8 (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Monday, April 13, 9 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Wild Rescue (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Yes (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
You, Me & Tuscany (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
