27 Aug 2024

“The Witches,” September 7

By Reader Staff

Lauded by legendary film critic Roger Ebert as "ambitious and inventive, and almost worth seeing just for Anjelica Huston's obvious delight in playing a completely uncompromised villainess," director Nicolas Roeg's The Witches enjoys an outdoor screening in Rozz-Tox's "Garden Cinema '90s Family Night" series on September 7, with Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus adding that "Roeg's dark and witty movie captures the spirit of Roald Dahl's writing like few other adaptations."

26 Aug 2024

The Playing's the Thing: “Sing Sing,” “Blink Twice,” and “Strange Darling”

By Mike Schulz

Director/co-writer Greg Kwedar's Sing Sing allows Colman Domingo's soul to spill for roughly 100 solid minutes. Thrillingly, however, his isn't the only soul on display. Not by a long shot.

20 Aug 2024

“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” September 4

By Reader Staff

A revolutionary work that Roger Ebert said was arguably "the first true horror film," director Robert Wiene's 1920 landmark The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari serves as the first presentation in the German American Heritage Center's German Expressionist Film Series, its September 4 screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House treating audiences to the silent classic that helped draw worldwide attention to the artistic merit of German cinema.

20 Aug 2024

“Terrestrial Voices,” September 5

By Reader Staff

On September 5, a widely lauded, deeply important Iranian film will enjoy a special screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum in the presentation of directors Ali Asgari's and Alireza Khatami's Terrestrial Voices, the Un Certain Regard Award recipient at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival that also won both the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2024 Luxembourg City Film Festival.

19 Aug 2024

Hybrid Scars: “Alien” Romulus,” “Didi,” and “My Penguin Friend”

By Mike Schulz

Fede Álvarez's franchise extender is a punchy, routinely exciting entertainment, and coming after the twinned bores of Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, it's also a considerable relief.

13 Aug 2024

“What the Constitution Means to Me,” August 26

By Reader Staff

A filmed-live version of the hit stage piece that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award nominee for Best Play, director Marielle Heller's What the Constitution Means to Me enjoys a special, free screening at Davenport's Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities on August 26. This Women’s Equality Day event finding writer/star Heidi Schreck both humorously and seriously challenging how Americans understand their rights in the U.S. Constitution, and arguing that the document actually does little to guarantee the rights of women and minority groups.

12 Aug 2024

Lily and Her Valleys: “It Ends with Us,” “Cuckoo,” “The Instigators,” and “Borderlands”

By Mike Schulz

It Ends with Us isn't necessarily great. It is, however, a crowd-pleaser that's strong and sincere and unexpectedly touching … and unlike the film Blake Lively's husband is currently starring in, at least it makes a modicum of sense.

05 Aug 2024

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Cops Are Huntin' at the Concert and I'm Feelin' So Sad: “Trap” and “Harold & the Purple Crayon”

By Mike Schulz

Trap may not be very good, but you gotta hand it to M. Night Shymalan: He does have a flair for the perverse.

29 Jul 2024

X-Lax: “Deadpool & Wolverine,” “The Fabulous Four,” and “Shine On: The Forgotten Shining Location”

By Mike Schulz

Mind you, I'm not suggesting that anyone would do this. But if you were to make a drinking game out of the experience of Marvel's and director/co-writer Shawn Levy's Deadpool & Wolverine, here's a list of prompts to absolutely avoid – unless, that is, you want the game to end with one of your players rushed to the ER.

23 Jul 2024

“An Infantryman from Hero Street,” August 6

By Reader Staff

Presented at Coal Valley's Robert R. Jones Public Library on August 6, a screening of An Infantryman from Hero Street will find local Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films sharing their moving, 30-minute documentary with area audiences, this fourth work in the Hero Street series followed by a question-and-answer session with the area talents.

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