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Iconic filmmaker Spike Lee injects plenty of New York City attitude — and a bit of elder statesman wisdom — in Highest 2 Lowest, his exhilarating remake of the classic Japanese film High and Low.
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Puppy Parker Posey, a beagle mix living in Des Moines, uses augmentative interspecies communication to express herself.
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As Darren Aronofsky's new crime thriller Caught Stealing opens in theaters this weekend, we're taking a look back at the director's previous film — a deeply moving chamber drama written by an Iowa Playwright Workshop alum.
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Iowa City's fourth annual Refocus Film Festival will open with Train Dreams, directed by the Academy Award-nominated writer Clint Bentley. Following in the festival's theme of adaptation, the film is based on the award-winning novella of the same name, written by Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Denis Johnson.
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Horror author Ira Rat hopes to give Iowa writers in the genre a space to connect with the inaugural One of Us horror fiction convention.
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The community theater was founded in Grant Wood's studio in 1925 and has grown to become Iowa's largest nonprofit producing theater.
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Ethan Coen's latest solo directorial outing, Honey Don’t!, is a sexy, breezy and often hilarious neo-noir starring Margaret Qualley. Co-written with Coen's wife Tricia Cooke, the film is the second in what the pair describe as a “lesbian B-movie trilogy.”
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A new film series is looking back at five iconic Hollywood films from directors and actors who left Europe in the years leading up to World War II. "From Hitler to Hollywood" will feature screenings at The Last Picture House in Davenport starting Sept. 3.
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This Iowan moved back home after graduating college and opened a t-shirt store in Des Moines. 20 years later, RAYGUN has 10 locations across the Midwest.
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In this episode of "What's Happenin' QC", Carlie Allison, the assistant general manager of the Last Picture House, a boutique independent movie theater in Downtown Davenport, discusses an upcoming special event featuring the popular Cinema Therapy podcast hosts.
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The most glamourous pig in show business had a humble start and is really “a truck driver underneath.”
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After filming at iconic Iowa City landmarks and including locals as extras, the feature film will move on to Dubuque next.