I disagree with the anti-mischief spirit of the tradition, but Beggars’ Night deserves to live forever as a decent piece of Des Moines trivia. That said, the present and future of the Halloween season both here and everywhere is Spooktober.
Benjamin McElroy
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There are 52 quintillion versions of the ‘Eno’ documentary. Iowans will see two of them this week.
The new documentary about glam rocker, pop producer and non-musician Brian Eno has been dubbed the “first generative feature film.” No two viewings are ever one and the same.
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The Mr. Softheart show happened like this
Two valued team members from Principal Financial Group were delivered here to the LiFT — by the divine means of Court Ave, or maybe, Fong’s — and found themselves next to me. There was nowhere else to go. The place was packed on Aug. 1 to welcome Mr. Softheart (the band, not man) into the […]
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Little Big Screen: ‘Jennifer’s Body’ and other Diablo-Coded movies to stream this month
“Former Student Assistant Wins Oscar” reads the headline on a University of Iowa Libraries blog from February 26, 2008. Diablo Cody, the former student assistant, had written exactly one screenplay, Juno, and now had won exactly one Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Cody cashed in that golden ticket to get Jennifer’s Body made. The […]
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Little Big Screen: ‘Strangers on a Train’ and other state fair films to stream this month
Do you like to people-watch? I know, I do too. Surely we’ll be seeing each other, and so many others, at the Iowa State Fair — one of the best places for people-watching on the planet. To get your gaze all lathered up ahead of time, Little Big Screen has nothing but blue-ribbon peep shows to stream this month.
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Little Big Screen: ‘The Crazies’ and other horror-thrillers streaming this July that hit too close to home
Little Big Screen has a stack of dirty water movies to stream this month.
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Little Big Screen: Films with killer soundtracks to see or stream this month
Here, take my hand — my strong hand — and let’s go back to the bicapped summers of LimeWire and MySpace. When I think about standing in the aisles of a Family Video or Movie Gallery, smack dab in the middle of windows-down weather, a movie’s music mattered almost as much as a movie’s movie. […]
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Little Big Screen: ‘The Straight Story’ and other Iowa-connected films to stream this month
Little Big Screen is a new column for LV movie lovers that will run monthly online. Look for highlights of the best streaming content available, selected to complement the outstanding curation of our local independent cinema (scroll to the end). It was May 21, 1999, and the prettiest images of Iowa ever committed to celluloid […]
