Super Troopers 3
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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Arctic: Our Frozen Planet (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
ATEEZ: LIGHt the WAy in CINEMAS (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Saturday, August 8) - IMDb listing.
Back from the Brink: Saved from Extinction (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Back to the Future (PG; Blue Grass Drive-in) - Your chance, for 40 minutes, to actually feel momentarily great about the state of the human race. IMDb listing.
The Breadwinner (PG; Blue Grass Drive-in) - It's like a pile-of-poo emoji with a smiley face attached; not remotely human, but dammit, you get it, and it makes you giggle. IMDb listing.
Bugs! (not rated;; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - The 3D effects make the film's creepy-crawly world pop in enjoyable fashion, and the bugs' life-and-death struggle makes for endlessly intriguing viewing IMDb listing.
The Bulldogs (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Monday, August 10, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
CatVideoFest 2026 (not rated; The Last Picture House, FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, August 8, and Sunday, August 9) - IMDb listing.
Cookie Queens (G; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
DC (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Dinosaurs Alive! (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Even young viewers may wind up disappointed that the 3D effects don't add much, while the rest of us might also be underwhelmed by the sub-Ray Harryhausen recreations and general blandness of the presentation. IMDb listing.
Disclosure Day (PG-13; VIP Cinemas) - I found myself raising a cocked eyebrow at Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller in the first five minutes, and the last five minutes, and during many of the 130 minutes in between. IMDb listing.
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (PG; Aledo Opera House) - The film assumes a nonexistent attention span on the part of its audience, and winds up delivering nothing of note to pay attention to. IMDb listing.
Dream Big: Engineering Our World (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Elephants: Giants of the Desert (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Evil Dead Burn (R; VIP Cinemas) - In addition to not being fun, or even remotely funny, this gore-fest denies us even one character whose survival you're invested in. IMDb listing.
Fantastic Mr. Fox (PG; FilmScene in the Park: Saturday, August 8, 8:15 p.m.) - Wes Anderson's Roald Dahl adaptation is so fiercely intelligent and confident that you watch it with keen alertness, always awaiting the next piece of visual magic, or brilliant actor reading, or inventive, resonant detail. IMDb listing.
Field of Dreams (PG; Aledo Opera House) - Phil Alden Robinson's irrationally effective charmer went on to earn a bunch of money, a Best Picture nomination, and the souls of untold numbers of guys who'll tell you they never cry at movies but bawl like infants at this one. IMDb listing.
Flight of the Butterflies (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - A bit pokey, but the slow, unspeakably beautiful explosion that is the butterflies' mass exodus is enough to make you believe in God - or, at the very least, in the gods of nature docs. IMDb listing.
Ghostbusters (PG; Blue Grass Drive-in) - IMDb listing.
Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies 2026 (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Saturday, August 8, and Monday, August 10) - IMDb listing.
The Goonies (PG; VIP Cinemas) - IMDb listing.
Hadestown: The Musical (not rated; VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - From its score that delectably mixes jazz, folk, blues, and traditional-show-tune stylings to its gorgeously evocative and sweaty New Orleans locale, the show is two-and-a-half hours (sans intermission) of rapturous delight. IMDb listing.
Hidden Universe (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
I Want Your Sex (R; The Last Picture House, FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Ice Cream Man (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Into America's Wild (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
The Invite (R; VIP Cinemas) - It's really only the aggressively off opening quarter that kept me from loving Olivia Wilde's marfital comedy, and even that becomes something close to a distant memory by the finale. IMDb listing.
Jackass: Best & Last (R; VIP Cinemas) - An ecstatic, collective middle finger to aging and chronic pain and death - not a world I want to live in, but one I'm always delighted to visit. IMDb listing.
Jerusalem (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This visually spectacular, 45-minute edu-tainment on Israel's "cradle of civilization" is really quite a glorious piece of work. IMDb listing.
Joe Dirt (PG-13; The Last Picture House Rooftop: Friday, August 7, and Saturday, August 8, 8:30 p.m.) - This David Spade slapstick isn't nearly as bad as you'd think, but yeah, it's still pretty terrible. IMDb listing.
Journey to Space (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - Says narrator Patrick Stewart of the genial scientists on-screen, "It's all about getting the job done and having a little fun" - an apt description for this edu-doc itself. IMDb listing.
Katseye: Wild Hearts (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAXL Wednesday, August 12, 7:15 & 9:20 p.m., and Thursday, August 13, 7:05 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Korean Kanakaraju (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Lalibazar (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Maddie's Secret (not rated; The Last Picture House) - IMDb listing.
Mary Oliver: Saves by the Beauty of the World (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey) - IMDb listing.
Minions & Monsters (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - It's hard to think of a more ticklish recent ode to cinema than thios animated sequel, which would've been just about perfect if its monsters were ditched entirely. IMDb listing.
Moana (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - Another unconscionable yet sadly inevitable Disney cash grab. IMDb listing.
Motor City (R; VIP Cinemas) - The complete lack of dialogue doesn't benefit the film in any meaningful way, considering how often its “silence is golden” mantra turns this revenge thriller into an unintentional howl. IMDb listing.
Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This edu-doc tries to do too much in too little time, but it's never less than interesting, and those mega-screen vistas of Egypt are truly stunning. IMDb listing.
The Muppet Movie (G; Marcus Sycamore Cinema:Sunday, August 9, through Thursday, August 13) - IMDb listing.
Mysteries of the Unseen World (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - One of the fastest-moving, most visually resplendent edu-tainments the Putnam has ever housed. IMDb listing.
National Parks Adventure (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - This expectedly gorgeous endeavor is also unexpectedly, even thrillingly, varied in presentation: sensationally informative, joyfully inspiring, and even laugh-out-loud funny. IMDb listing.
Nimrods: Early-Access Screening (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Tuesday, August 11, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Obsession (R; VIP Cinemas) - This is Curry Barker's chance to give Gen Z a Fatal Attraction of its very own, and if his movie doesn't wholly succeed … . Well, Adrian Lyne's 1987 smash had major problems, too. 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.
The Odyssey (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, FilmScene on the Ped Mall, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - A Homer adaptation of staggering grandeur and (for Nolan) considerable emotional power, and more sheer fun than anything Christopher Nolan has delivered since The Dark Knight. IMDb listing.
One Night Only (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Only Yesterday: 35th Anniversary (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Sunday, August 9, and Tuesday, August 11) - IMDb listing.
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie -- Early-Access Screening (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX: Saturday, August 8, 2 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Practical Magic (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, The Last Picture House, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Tuesday, August 11) - IMDb listing.
The Prince & the Showgirl (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Saturday, August 8, 4 p.m., and Wednesday, August 12, 7 p.m.) - IMDb listing.
Scarlet Warning 666 (not rated; FilmScene at the Chauncey: Wednesday, August 12, 10 p.m.) - ICFilmScene.org.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, Blue Grass Drive-in, The Last Picture House, FilmScene at the Chauncey, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - This sequel's moderate merits are ultimately undone by the element that's been imposing itself on Marvel Studios releases for ages: a feature-length game of connect the dots. IMDb listing.
Super Troopers 3 (R; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - IMDb listing.
Supergirl (PG-13; VIP Cinemas) - Given how bored I've been at so many cinematic superhero origin stories over the decades, I feel silly for wishing that Craig Gillespie's adventure had merely been a superhero origin story. 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.
Tales from Earthsea (PG-13; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, VIP Cinemas, Marcus Sycamore Cinema: Sunday, August 9, and Monday, August 10) - IMDb listing.
Thudakkam (not rated; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX) - IMDb listing.
Toy Story 5 (PG; Davenport 53rd 18 + IMAX, Voy 61 Drive In Theatre, VIP Cinemas, Blue Grass Drive-in, Marcus Sycamore Cinema) - To not have fun at this movie, I think you'd have to actively try to have a bad time – which isn't to say that we didn't deserve a better one. IMDb listing.
Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - I might've left this edu-doc just as satisfied if it were a silent film, or at least one wholly free of words, given that the sights on display left me less fascinated than thunderstruck. IMDb listing.
Wild Africa (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Wild Rescue (not rated; Putnam Museum & Science Center) - IMDb listing.
Young Washington (PG-13; VIP Cinemas) - For all of the film's squareness and late-in-the-day silliness, writer/director Jon Erwin, his subtly magnetic lead, and his deeply impressive supporting ensemble delivera true American hero to root for. IMDb listing.
