Holding a 97-percent "freshness" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critical consensus calls the 1922 film "one of the silent era's most influential masterpieces" that "set the template for the horror films that followed," F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu serves as the second presentation in the German American Heritage Center's German Expressionist Film Series, its September 11 screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House treating audiences to the movie ranked 21st in Empire magazine's list of "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema."

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.

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.

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.