06 Jan 2026

“Out There: A National Parks Story,” January 18

By Reader Staff

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2023 Florida Film Festival, as well as the Rising Star Awards at the Naples Film Festival, director/editor/cinematographer Brendan Hall's Out There: A National Parks Story serves as the first presentation in 2026 QC Environmental Film Series hosted by River Action.

05 Jan 2026

Robbed Zombies: “We Bury the Dead” and “The Secret Agent”

By Mike Schulz

As has become a common ritual, the first weekend of the new year brought with it a low-budget horror movie. Unlike releases of the M3GAN/Night Swim variety, however, this most recent release doesn't appear all that interested in being a horror movie – which is largely to its credit.

03 Jan 2026

Mississippi Quiver: Reminiscences on the 2025 Movie Year

By Mike Schulz

Thanks for turning my favorite movie of the year – of many, many years – into the financial, cultural, and awards-season behemoth it's become.

28 Dec 2025

Up a Creek with a Paddle: “Marty Supreme,” “Song Sung Blue,” and “Anaconda”

By Mike Schulz

I found this latest showcase for “hilarious” abhorrent behavior grossly self-satisfied and almost unfailingly obnoxious. The opening credits, though, are a hoot.

20 Dec 2025

Pandora Express: “Avatar: Fire & Ash” and “The Housemaid”

By Mike Schulz

James Cameron can always be counted on to deliver visual wonders the likes of which we've never seen before. No, wait: I take that back. I meant to say that James Cameron could always be counted on to deliver visual wonders the likes of which we've never seen before.

16 Dec 2025

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” Rowdy NYE Screening, December 31

By Reader Staff

Twilight fans looking to enjoy a true howl on December 31 can have one at Davenport's theater The Last Picture House, with the venue hosting a NYE Rowdy Screening of the 2009 smash The Twilight Saga: New Moon, an event for which audience interaction is not only allowed – it's required.

14 Dec 2025

You're Gonna Fake It After All: “Ella McCay,” “Silent Night, Deadly Night,” and “Oh. What. Fun.”

By Mike Schulz

James L. Brooks' first feature since 2010's How Do You Know isn't the worst picture of 2025. It's quite possibly the strangest, though, and suggests that not only has Brooks not made a film in 15 years, but perhaps hasn't seen a film in 15 years.

10 Dec 2025

“Jury of Her Peers,” December 16

By Reader Staff

With the independent film's “Roadshow Tour” making its first stop in Davenport, the mystery-drama Jury of Her Peers enjoys a special screening at the Last Picture House on December 16, writer/director William Rock's true-crime feature adapted from a short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning native Iowan Susan Glaspell.

08 Dec 2025

Grief Encounter: “Hamnet,” “Jay Kelly,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Fackham Hall,” and “Five Nights at Freddy's 2”

By Mike Schulz

Although the film is anchored by a ferocious Jessie Buckley and a frequently moving Paul Mescal, it might be impossible, after seeing director/co-writer Chloé Zhao's Hamnet, to reflect on the movie without the face of its titular portrayer coming instantly to mind, and potentially making you well up all over again.

02 Dec 2025

“A Clockwork Orange,” December 17

By Reader Staff

With Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus calling the film "disturbing and thought-provoking" as well as "a cold, dystopian nightmare with a very dark sense of humor," Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange will be screened on December 17 as part of the community series Filmosofia, this evening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox also featuring a reading discussion on the movie's philosophical themes hosted by Augustana College's Dr. Deke Gould.

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