With the popular horror-film series making a long-awaited cineplex return after an absence of 14 years, Davenport venue The Last Picture House will celebrate the May 16 opening of Final Destination Bloodlines with a special appearance by the film's co-star Anna Lore, a Dubuque native who will take part in the screening event's in-person Q&A session.

A 2021 Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay whose star Renate Reinsve also won that year's Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival, director/co-writer Joachim Trier's Norwegian romantic dramedy The Worst Person in the World enjoys a May 22 screening in the Figge Art Museum's Free Film at the Figge series, the latest in its presentation of distinguished, award-winning movies about the uncertain and haphazard courses that love can take.

With the film presented as the second in a pair of events in the organization's "Let's Have a Conversation" end-of-life series, Davenport's CASI (Center for Active Seniors) will host a screening of the documentary The Last Ecstatic Days on May 18, the film praised by the Boston Globe as a “courageous end-of-life chronicle” that “overflows with compassion.”

Presented at part of the Bettendorf Public Library's Teem Movie Night series, 1999's iconic Shakespeare-comedy-turned-Hollywood-smash 10 Things I Hate About You, will be screened in the library's Junior League Program Room on May 16, this iconic romantic comedy famed for delivering breakthrough roles for Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the late Oscar winner Heath Ledger.

Is it possible that, over the past three years, Marvel Studios has been experimenting with a release strategy designed to get audiences excited for every other MCU movie?

On May 15, patrons of Davenport's Figge Art Museum are invited to the venue's John Deere Auditorium for the definitive documentary about George Nakashima's famed furniture design and woodworking practice in George Nakashima, Woodworker, the film's screening followed by a discussion and Q&A with the director – and George's nephew – John Nakashima.

Due to the nature of his role, Ben Affleck is never allowed to laugh here. With Jon Bernthal gleefully egging him on, though, you can sense how deeply the actor must want to. Heaven knows my audience, myself included, was laughing.

A special night of brilliant music and blistering horror transpires at Davenport's Capitol Theatre on May 8 with the venue hosting Frizzi to Fucli 2025: "Zombie," the Composer's Cut, an event that finds Zombie composer, orchestrator, and conductor Fabio Frizzi headlining a thrilling, soundtracked screening of the genre classic – Lucio Fulci's first-ever horror film – as performed by gifted live musicians.

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