03 Mar 2025

The Slipper Fit: Notes on the 2025 Academy Awards Telecast

By Mike Schulz

So. Who won Best Actress?

I'm kidding … although the answer to that question did come later than I would've preferred.

28 Feb 2025

Deep-Sea Diversion: "Last Breath" and "Riff Raff"

By Mike Schulz

I may not have understood all the machinations involved in bringing our aquatic hero back safely, but I believed that Last Breath's helmer and cast knew what they were doing, and in the end, that was far more important.

25 Feb 2025

Pope-ular: Predicting the 2025 Academy Award Winners

By Mike Schulz

This is an insane year for the Oscars.

24 Feb 2025

Dumb and Drummer: “The Monkey” and “The Unbreakable Boy”

By Mike Schulz

No one could possibly argue that we need more horror movies these days. But I'd suggest that we could always stand to have more in which characters, at the moment of their passing, go splat.

18 Feb 2025

“Giants Rising,” March 2

By Reader Staff

Winner of the Best Environmental Documentary prize at the 2024 Arizona Film Festival and the Audience Award at the 2024 Maui Film Festival, Giants Rising serves as the sixth and final presentation in this year's QC Environmental Film Series hosted by River Action. Its March 2 screening in the Galvin Fine Arts Center of Davenport's St. Ambrose University invites audiences to journey into the heart of America's most iconic forests, the film revealing the secrets and the saga of the coast redwoods: the tallest and among the oldest living beings on Earth.

17 Feb 2025

Agent of Shield: “Captain America: Brave New World,” “Paddington in Peru,” and the 2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films – Animated and Live Action

By Mike Schulz

I don't necessarily mind that, more often than not, new Marvel Studios movies require me to do homework. What bothers me is how often they make me do homework twice.

11 Feb 2025

“The Hunt for Planet B,” February 23

By Reader Staff

Hailed by RogerEbert.com's Nick Allen as "an impassioned and unabashedly intellectual documentary" that "helps us stand back and remember just how essential science is to progress," The Hunt for Planet B serves as the fifth presentation in this year's QC Environmental Film Series hosted by River Action. Its February 23 presentation at Davenport's Figge Art Museum will treat viewers to what Science magazine called "a behind-the-scenes view of the technical complexities, personalities, and politics that go into building a multi-decade space mission."

11 Feb 2025

“Past Lives,” February 27

By Reader Staff

A critically acclaimed 2023 release and Academy Award nominee for Best Picture and Original Screenplay, writer/director Celine Song's arresting, ravishingly emotional Past Lives enjoys a February 27 screening in the Figge Art Museum's “Free Film at the Figge” series, the semi-autobiographical work also included on Indiewire's list of the "Best American Independent Movies of the 21st Century."

10 Feb 2025

Our Bloody Valentines: “Heart Eyes,” “Love Hurts,” and “I'm Still Here”

By Mike Schulz

Violets are blue, roses are red / Why not spend V Day with folks getting dead?

04 Feb 2025

“The Shitthropocene,” February 16

By Reader Staff

With the event hosted by Augustana College's Sierra Club and featuring reflection speakers in a sustainability lifestyle panel, The Shitthropocene serves as the fourth presentation in this year's QC Environmental Film Series hosted by River Action, its February 16 presentation at Davenport's Figge Art Museum treating viewers to a 46-minute documentary that shows us how we might begin to save ourselves from ourselves, complete with the participation of dancing cave people.

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