A box-office hit from 2000 lauded by Quentin Tarantino as "a brilliant retelling of the Superman mythology," M. Night Shymalan's psychological superhero thriller Unbreakable enjoys a special August 22 screening at Davenport venue The Last Picture House, the event hosted by, and featuring a subsequent Q&A with, therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright, both of the nationally renowned podcast Cinema Therapy.

With review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes' hailing the dystopian thriller as "visually stunning and thought-provoking," director James McTeigue's 2006 hit V for Vendetta enjoys a special August 27 screening as part of Rozz-Tox's community series Filmosofia, this evening in Rock Island also boasting a reading discussion on the movie's philosophical themes hosted by Augustana College's Dr. Deke Gould.

Boasting a 91-percent approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and hailed by the site's critical consensus as "a bitingly satiric and hugely entertaining parody," director/co-writer Edgar Wright's 2007 cult classic Hot Fuzz enjoys an outdoor screening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox, the August 22 event treating fans to the second part of Wright's "Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy" that also includes Shaun of the Dead and The World's End.

In Weapons, writer/director Zach Cregger is almost too inventive, his apparent making-it-up-as-he-goes-along approach so reckless that it seems to stop mattering if what we're watching makes any earthly sense.

Presented as the official back-to-school pick in the venue's Garden Cinema series, the 1982 cult classic Fast Times at Ridgemont High enjoys an August 15 showing at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox, the film praised by Richard Roepner as a work that "continues to resonate as a substantial time capsule of the period," and that stands as "the best ribald teen comedy ever made."

Alison Brie's and Dave Franco's arguably inappropriate chemistry might make this supremely clever, enjoyably gross body-horror comedy stronger than it would've been without them, because even when their characters are at their lowest communal ebb, you sense that these two will always fundamentally stick with one another. And stick with one another they do. They very much do.

Presented in conjunction with the venue's current exhibition of the same title (with an added exclamation point), director Tom Hooper's arguably legendary screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats enjoys an August 14 screening at Davenport's Figge Art Museum, with kitty costumes encouraged for this free event in the Thursdays at the Figge series.

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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, August 7: Previews of Freakier Friday, Weapons, and Sketch, and discussion of The Bad Guys 2 and The Naked Gun, with a primer on why you should ma-a-a-aybe think twice about bringing your mother or father-in-law to that latter title.

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