This Veterans Day weekend, the Moline-based Fourth Wall Films – run by the extraordinary husband-and-wife team of Kelly and Tammy Rundle – will premiere the latest documentary in the planned nine-part, short-film Hero Street series.

Lauded by Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus as "a lively feel-good movie that genuinely charms," the sleeper hit Bend It Like Beckham enjoys a November 13 screening in the Figge Art Museum's Free Film at the Figge series, this breakout for star Keira Knightley also praised by the Los Angele Times for its "impeccable sense of milieu that is the result of knowing the culture intimately enough to poke fun at it while understanding its underlying integrity."

It's hard to be dismissive toward any movie that inspires you to pick up a book, and having seen Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, I'm now eager to read Warren Zanes' 2023 nonfiction that inspired the release, and maybe the Boss' 2016 memoir Born to Run, too. But I'd argue that your desire to check out those titles has little to do with the quality of writer/director Scott Cooper's bio-musical drama.

A winner at the Iowa Independent Film Festival and Cedar Rapids Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Archaeology Channel and Landlocked Film Festival, Fourth Wall Films' documentary Lost Nation: The Ioway and its sequel enjoy a special November 6 screening at Clinton Community College, this acclaimed work by area moviemakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle shining a light on a forgotten tale of American conquest and Native survival.

Because the presentation is so confident and the film's look so distinctive, it might take a while to realize just how bad Black Phone 2 actually is.

Shown in conjunction with the venue's current Day of the Dead exhibition, Disney/Pixar's Oscar-winning animated adventure Coco enjoys an October 30 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, the magical box-office hit about how love and connection transcend death as the living keep the deceased alive in their memories and in their hearts.

With the Oscar-winning 1986 hit enjoying a local showing just in time for Halloween, Rozz-Tox guests are invited to "Be afraid ... be very afraid" on October 29 when the Rock Island venue screens David Cronenberg's The Fly as part of the community series Filmosofia, this evening in Rock Island also featuring a reading discussion on the movie's philosophical themes hosted by Augustana College's Dr. Deke Gould.

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Going to the cineplex or staying in and streaming this weekend? Every Thursday morning at 8:15 a.m. you can listen to Mike Schulz dish on recent movie releases & talk smack about Hollywood celebs on Planet 93.9 FM with the fabulous Dave & Darren in the Morning team of Dave Levora and Darren Pitra. The morning crew previews upcoming releases, too.

Or you can check the Reader Web site and listen to their latest conversation by the warm glow of your electronic device. Never miss a pithy comment from these three scintillating pundits again.

Thursday, October 23: Discussion of Black Phone 2, Good Fortune, After the Hunt, and Mr. Scorsese; previews of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Regretting You, Shelby Oaks, Blue Moon, and A House of Dynamite; and thoughts on nixed Star Wars offerings by Steven Soderbergh and David Fincher, both of which sound more interesting than at least 75-percent of the Star Wars movies we actually got.

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