03 Aug 2026

Peter, Principled: “Spider-Man: Brand New Day”

By Mike Schulz

There are essentially three plotlines fighting for space in director Destin Daniel Cretton's Spider-Man: Brand New Day – even though, given its generous 145-minute running length, you wouldn't think any in-fighting was necessary.

27 Jul 2026

He Unsaid, She Unsaid: “Motor City,” “Hadestown: The Musical,” and “Her Private Hell”

By Mike Schulz

It's not that the characters can't talk. They just don't, or do without our being able to hear them, and that makes many of the goings-on here silly to the point of absurdity.

20 Jul 2026

Greece Lightning: “The Odyssey”

By Mike Schulz

Christopher Nolan appears seriously invested in our enjoyment, and there are many, many sequences in this grandly scaled adventure as thrilling, juicy, and ticklish as any that 2026 has thus-far produced. Those demanding fidelity to Homer are likely gonna hate it.

13 Jul 2026

Hawk and Piña and Joe and Angie: “The Invite,” “Evil Dead Burn,” “Gail Daughtry & the Celebrity Sex Pass,” and “Moana”

By Mike Schulz

Watching romantic relationships crack and crumble can be enormous, if nerve-racking, fun – just so long as those breakdowns are viewed from the perspective of an auditorium, and not a mirror.

09 Jul 2026

“Hamilton,” July 16

By Reader Staff

On July 16, the Putnam Museum & Science Center's GIANT Screen Theater auditorium will definitely be "the Room where it happens," with the Davenport venue hosting a 6 p.m. screening of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.

06 Jul 2026

They're Ready for Their Closeups, Mr. DeMinion: “Minions & Monsters” and “Young Washington”

By Mike Schulz

It's hard to think of a more ticklish recent ode to cinema than Minions & Monsters, which would've been just about perfect if its monsters were ditched entirely.

30 Jun 2026

“Selena,” July 15

By Reader Staff

Presented as a special event in the Quad Cities Latino Cinema Series, the musical biography and Jennifer Lopez breakout Selena enjoys a July 15 screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House, noted film critic James Bernardinelli praising the film for "conveying the boundless energy and enthusiasm that exemplified Selena."

29 Jun 2026

Kara Package: “Supergirl” and “Jackass: Best & Last”

By Mike Schulz

Given how bored I've been at so many cinematic superhero origin stories over the decades, I feel silly for actually feeling and writing this. But I really wish director Craig Gillespie's Supergirl had merely been a superhero origin story.

22 Jun 2026

Device and Conquer: “Toy Story 5,” “The Death of Robin Hood,” and “Leviticus”

By Mike Schulz

Thirty-one years after the franchise's debut, Disney/Pixar's latest animated comedy adventure is unusual in at least one regard: It's the first Toy Story that might be more fun to think about, and argue about, than actually watch.

15 Jun 2026

Closer Encounters: “Disclosure Day,” “Tuner,” and “Stop! That! Train!”

By Mike Schulz

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is many things:but most of all, it's an excellent self-test determining just how jaded you've become.

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