Whatever you think of director James Mangold's new musical bio-pic, you can't accuse it of false advertising.

Having sat through, and stayed awake for, Madame Web, Morbius, and three Venoms, I'd be among the first to cheer the death of Sony's Spider-Man(-free) Universe series. But I'm not sure that Kraven the Hunter should be the thing that kills it.

Presented by Filmosofia and followed by a discussion and themed reading of Philip Pettit's The Prisoner's Dilemma and Social Theory, Christopher Nolan's Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight enjoys a December 18 screening at Rock Island's Rozz-Tox, this landmark 2008 entertainment a two-time Academy Award-winner that, until last year's Barbie, held a 15-year record as the highest-grossing domestic release in Warner Bros. history.

Appearing in a special Silvis Public Library program on December 14, Emmy Award-winning area filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle will host screenings of the entire short-film collection in their beloved Hero Street documentary series, the Celebrating History: Hero Street Documentary Film Series Centennial Event celebrating the eight young men from Silvis' block-and-a-half-long Second Street in Silvis collectively lost to World War II and the Korean War.