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Joey, do you like endlessly quotable and ridiculously absurd movies from 1980 that feature Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? ("Tell your old man to drag Walton ...

Milwaukee Film's recent restoration of the Oriental Theatre has turned the stunning East Side movie palace into a really, really stunning East Side movie palace. But one element has been missing: a big ol' pipe...

It's a testament to how spoiled we are in Milwaukee that, when you receive a press release announcing that the 1984 Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense will screen at the Oriental Theatre, and that Tal...

In 2006, director Richard Kelly followed up his beloved cult classic Donnie Darko with the wildly ambitious, wildly bizarre, and just plain wild Southland Tales. The film...well...it was about...um, er...we'll ...

If you're in the market for catching up on this year's crop of Oscar-nominated short films and enjoying the original Muppet Movie on the big screen, have we got some news for you. Beginning Friday, February ...

Back in 2018, Milwaukee moviegoers were treated to a screening of Dario Argento's 1977 classic giallo film Suspiria at the Oriental Theatre. But it wasn't just any screening—it came complete with a live score f...

Don't you love it when Milwaukee movie palace Oriental Theatre screens David Lynch films? WE DO. Now, a few years after that screening of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, the Oriental is set to screen A.) one of ...

It's been two loooooong years since Milwaukee's Oriental Theatre announced that, thanks to an online petition, it would screen the misbegotten 2019 film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's misbegotten 1981 stage m...

Feeling lost since the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped earlier this month? Seen Everything Everywhere All At Once three times already and looking for something new at the Oriental Theatre? Then you're in l...

After less than a week back in business, the Oriental Theatre has announced it will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours for entry. The policy, announced by the oper...

When the Oriental Theatre reopens on Friday, August 20, attendees will be "expected" to be fully vaccinated or to have received a negative COVID-19 test within the past 72 hours. But that honor system approach ...

After approximately 8,000 years of pandemic/restoration-related silence, Milwaukee's historic Oriental Theatre will reopen Friday, August 20. Milwaukee Film, which operates the theater, made the announcement Mo...

The last time we visited the Oriental Theatre (way back in July 2020), the historic East Side landmark was kind of a mess. But in a good way! Milwaukee Film's extensive five-phase Oriental restoration and renov...