With Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus calling the film "disturbing and thought-provoking" as well as "a cold, dystopian nightmare with a very dark sense of humor," Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange will be screened on December 17 as part of the community series Filmosofia, this evening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox also featuring a reading discussion on the movie's philosophical themes hosted by Augustana College's Dr. Deke Gould.

Hailed, or maybe derided, by Entertainment Weekly as "the Citizen Kane of bad movies," multi-hyphenate Tommy Wiseau's legendary 2003 melodrama will enjoy two special screenings at Davenport venue The Last Picture House on December 4, the eagerly awaited An Evening Inside "The Room" with Greg Sestero featuring live Q&A sessions with the cult classic's co-star who authored the best-selling The Disaster Artist. Oh hi, Mark!

This opinion may seem counterintuitive, or even downright crazy. But I found director/co-writer Edgar Wright's The Running Man, a violent, profanity-laden dystopian thriller based on a Stephen King novel … kind of adorable.

Eventually, the bubble will no doubt burst, as one does quite memorably toward the end of his latest film. But barring the unrelieved misery wallow that is 2017's The Killing of a Sacred Deer, no one's movies over the past 10 years have tickled and astonished me quite like Yorgos Lanthimos', with the director's new, wickedly entertaining oddity Bugonia much like his others, and also not at all.