Category: Film

Milwaukee Film Festival announces 2025 attendance and winners, 2026 dates

May 14, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped up last week. It was a blast! From April 24 through May 8, more than 200 feature films and short films screened at the Oriental and Downer theatres. There were Q&As,...

A clue-by-clue solution to our 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival treasure hunt

Matt Wild

May 9, 2025

In case you missed it, the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival wrapped up Thursday night. It was a blast! (The line for the Closing Night film, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, went around the block.) Oh, and something el...

‘Murder Cabin’ writer/co-director discusses Times Cinema premiere, Wisconsin-made horror

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2025

There's no shortage of horror films that have been set in Wisconsin. In recent years, independent filmmakers have also been known to shoot frightening footage within the borders of the state itself with more re...

Holy schnikes! We’re screening ‘Tommy Boy’ at Avalon Theater on May 21

Tyler Maas

April 24, 2025

Even now, close to three decades after his untimely death, Chris Farley still holds a special place in the hearts of Wisconsinites and comedy fans throughout the world. Heck, the Madison native and Marquette gr...

‘Green Blah’ co-director discusses Green Bay’s punk rock past before Milwaukee Film Festival screenings

Tyler Maas

April 23, 2025

Throughout the weekend, Green Bay, Wisconsin will be in the national spotlight on account of the NFL Draft coming to Titletown for the first time ever. Around the same time names of second and third round selec...

My wildly ambitious, never-gonna-happen-but-I’ll-try-anyway MFF25 itinerary

Matt Wild

April 22, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival cometh! From April 24 through May 8, 96 feature films and 112 short films will light up the screens of the Oriental and Downer theatres. (The full lineup can be found HERE. Tick...

When and where to see the Cinema Hooligante films at the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

April 21, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival begins...this week! From April 24 through May 8, 96 feature films and 112 short films will light up the screens of the Oriental and Downer theatres. Tickets and passes are avail...

We created a treasure hunt for the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival. Here’s the first clue.

Matt Wild

April 17, 2025

In case you missed it, the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to run April 24 – May 8. It'll feature approximately 200 feature-length and short films from around the world (and Milwaukee, of course) screening ...

Check out the full lineup and program guide for the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

April 4, 2025

We're mere weeks away from the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival. The 17th annual fest will take over the Oriental and Downer theatres—along with other swaths of the East Side—April 24 through May 8. It's gonna be g...

We’re screening ‘Total Recall’ at Avalon Theater on April 23

Tyler Maas

March 20, 2025

If you were one of the many folks who attended last night's screening of Tremors at Avalon Theater: 1. Thank you, and 2. We think you're really going to like next month's film selection. On Wednesday, April 23,...

Milwaukee Film reveals more MFF25 selections, Opening Night film and party

Matt Wild

March 19, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival is just around the corner—April 24 - May 8, to be exact. It will feature approximately 200 short and feature-length documentary and fiction films from around the world (and Milw...

Here’s the schedule for Oriental Theatre’s David Lynch retrospective

Matt Wild

March 13, 2025

If you're a David Lynch obsessive like we are, you've been mainlining Lynch movies, Lynch TV, Lynch documentaries, Lynch music, and Lynch clips ever since the director's death in January. Ugh. Just typing that ...

Milwaukee Horror Con slashes into town March 14-16

Tyler Maas

March 10, 2025

Milwaukee has long been known as the "City Of Festivals," but we've also become something of a hub for conventions in recent years. Last week, downtown was abuzz with folks partaking in Anime Milwaukee festivit...

Oriental, Downer theaters will go cashless beginning March 10

Matt Wild

March 3, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to run April 24 through May 8 at the Oriental Theatre and Downer Theatre. (Sorry, MFF films won't be screening at the Avalon or Times this year.) It will feature approxim...

Travel back to early 2000s Milwaukee with these episodes of ‘ElimiDATE’

Tyler Maas

February 27, 2025

Somewhere between Blind Date and NEXT on the hierarchy of trashy early aughts dating shows you'll find ElimiDATE. The syndicated reality show in which a contestant goes on a date with four potential suitors at ...

Avalon Theater will be one long smorgasbord at our March 19 screening of ‘Tremors’

Matt Wild

February 20, 2025

In a recent retrospective for The Reveal, Keith Phipps calls 1990's Tremors a "five-star three-star movie." "It doesn't aim as high as, say, Born On The Fourth of July, the 1989 holdover that topped the box off...

2025 Milwaukee Film Festival reveals first films, will be at Oriental and Downer only

Matt Wild

February 18, 2025

The 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to run April 24 – May 8. It will feature approximately 200 short and feature-length documentary and fiction films from around the world (and Milwaukee, of course). Advanc...

Oriental Theatre: “We’re never going to have” reclining seats or whatever (thank goodness)

Matt Wild

February 6, 2025

We're about two and a half months away from the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival, which runs April 24 - May 8. And while the fest is amazing for 15 days, the Milwaukee Film-operated Oriental Theatre is amazing all ...

Hop in and watch the trailer for the Milwaukee-made TW Hansen doc ‘Now! More! Yes!’

Matt Wild

January 31, 2025

"A legally blind used car salesman drunkenly purchases an ambulance online with his boss's credit card." If you live outside Milwaukee, that sentence may sound like a Mad Lib tagline to a zany madcap comedy....

Spring has sprung with the artwork for the 2025 Milwaukee Film Festival

Matt Wild

January 30, 2025

Have you been outside today? It's pretty nice! True, spring is still months away, but at least it kinda-sorta feels like spring today. And here's another taste of spring: the just-released artwork for the 2025 ...