13 Oct 2025

“Coco,” October 30

By Reader Staff

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.

13 Oct 2025

12 Hours of Terror Horror Movie Marathon, October 25

By Reader Staff

Treating fright-flick fans to a full half-day of cinematic shivers, Rock Island's Rozz-Tox and East Moline's Death Stitch Custom Clothing + Scare Shop host the 2025 12 Hours of Terror event on October 25, this 12th-annual horror-movie marathon boasting raffle giveaway prizes and eight separate screenings, including the premiere of a new local independent film.

13 Oct 2025

“The Fly,” October 29

By Reader Staff

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.

12 Oct 2025

Code of Arms: “Tron: Ares,” “Roofman,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” and “John Candy: I Like Me”

By Mike Schulz

A sci-fi excursion that's neither as scientific as you may need nor as fictional as you may want, Tron: Ares finds the fate of humanity resting in the hands of either a global-weaponry mogul or a video-game mastermind. So, you know, we're pretty much effed any way you slice it.

04 Oct 2025

Lord of the Ring: “The Smashing Machine,” “Anemone,” and “Good Boy”

By Mike Schulz

In recent years, it was starting to look as though Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was no longer capable of genuine screen rapport with anyone. Turns out he very much is. Maybe he just needed a true kindred spirit to share some with.

18 Mar 2020

A-Z INDEX: Reader Movie Reviews

By Mike Schulz

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16 Oct 2025

Mike Schulz with Dave & Darren on Planet 93.9 FM

By Reader Staff

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 16: Before the previews of Black Phone 2, After the Fall, Good Fortune, Truth & Treason, and Pets on a Train, discussion of The Smashing Machine, Anemone, Good Dog, Tron: Ares, Roofman, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and John Candy: I Like Me. After a week off, it's Lightning Round time again -- this time with Lightning Round sound effects.

15 Oct 2025

Now Playing: Friday, October 17, through Thursday, October 23

By Administrator

Now playing at area theaters.

30 Sep 2025

“Night of the Living Dead,” October 11

By Reader Staff

With legendary film critic Pauling Kael describing the film as "one of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made," George A. Romero's legendary zombie thriller Night of the Living Dead enjoys a spooky-season screening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox on October 11, this low-budget masterpiece also inspiring Rex Reed to state, "It is unthinkable for anyone seriously interested in horror movies not to see it."

29 Sep 2025

Revolutionaries' War: “One Battle After Another,” “The Strangers: Chapter 2,” “Dead of Winter,” and “Eleanor the Great”

By Mike Schulz

What do you get when you give $130-175 million to a filmmaker who, after nearly 30 years in the business, has never helmed a blockbuster, or even a movie that grossed more than $41 million domestic? If you're Warner Bros., which granted a nine-figure budget to Paul Thomas Anderson, you probably get all sorts of happy, because the writer/director's new screwball epic One Battle After Another is going through the roof in every imaginable way. Better still, it deserves to.

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