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You’d be ‘Better Off Dead’ than to miss our screening at Avalon Theater July 18

June 21, 2018

Four weeks. Twenty weekdays. That's approximately how long you have until we screen the 1985 dark comedy classic Better Off Dead at Avalon Theater. On Wednesday, July 18, Milwaukee Record, the Avalon, and new s...

Get a jump on Bastille Days with a screening of ‘Amélie’ at Avalon Theater July 11

Matt Wild

June 19, 2018

You know you're in the thick of another Milwaukee summer when Bastille Days rolls around. The ever-popular French festival returns for its 37th year July 12-15 at Cathedral Square Park, bringing with it all the...

Greetings, Professor Falken: SafeHouse will screen 1983’s ‘WarGames’ June 25

Matt Wild

June 19, 2018

10 PRINT "Remember 1983's WarGames? You know, the one with Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy? The one where Broderick hacks a NORAD supercomputer and almost starts World War III because he thinks he's playing a...

Yeah…we’re going to need you to go ahead and check out Rosebud Cinema’s “Geek Week” movie lineup

Tyler Maas

June 5, 2018

With their movie series put together in accordance with Halloween and Christmas, anime nights, unique monthly themes like “Antihero April” and “Martial Arts May,” honoring fallen music greats, hosting classic m...

Joel, Jonah, and the Bots are bringing ‘MST3K’ back to Riverside Theater November 15

Matt Wild

June 4, 2018

Remember when Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed on 1962's The Brain That Wouldn't Die? Well, 30 years after MST3K first premiered on a low-budget television station in Minneapolis, it's clear that it, too, wo...

Check out the 2018 Bike-In Movie Series schedule, help make the series possible

Matt Wild

May 30, 2018

With warm weather comes the pleasures of biking, and with the pleasures of biking comes the pleasures of the annual Milwaukee Bike-In Movie Series. For the past 10 summers, the grassroots, free, Friday-night ev...

Watch an episode of Adult Swim’s ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’ that was filmed at a Milwaukee diner

Tyler Maas

May 22, 2018

Late Sunday night, a new series called Joe Pera Talks With You premiered on Adult Swim. The sub-15-minute show stars actor/comedian Joe Pera as a slow-talking, well-meaning middle school choir teacher living in...

Jump into summer with a June 20 screening of ‘Hot Rod’ at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2018

The fine folks at Avalon Theater have been kind enough to let Milwaukee Record screen a different under-appreciated classic at the Bay View movie house every month lately. Last night, we followed up April's sol...

Strangers’ lives entangle in Milwaukee-made feature, ‘Lesser Beasts’

Tyler Maas

May 8, 2018

In addition to the all-around excellence of the Milwaukee Film Festival and frequent screenings of time-tested favorites and cult classics (cough!) at the city's various neighborhood theaters, the state of cine...

‘American Gods’ has started filming at House on the Rock

Matt Wild

May 4, 2018

Last summer, we paid a visit to the most quintessential of bat-shit Wisconsin oddities, House on the Rock. "House on the Rock is a glimpse into the mind of a madman," we said back in August 2017. "It's an illus...

Riverwest Film & Video documentary premieres at Wisconsin Film Festival

Tone Madison

April 11, 2018

The following piece by Reid Kurkerewicz was originally published on Tone Madison under the headline "Filmmaker Emir Cakaroz on being a fly in the soup." Emir Cakaroz is a Milwaukee-based filmmaker and UW-Mil...

Join us for a 20th anniversary screening of ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’ at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

April 5, 2018

It's going to be tough to top last night's sold-out screening of UHF we hosted at Avalon Theater, but dammit if we won't try. With school ending and the film's 20th anniversary a few weeks away, we figured it w...

Our ‘UHF’ after-party at Vanguard will feature Weird Al music and videos, Twinkie Wiener Sandwiches

Matt Wild

April 3, 2018

Hey! Welcome to Weird Al Week! For the next seven weekdays, Milwaukee Record will be filling your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It all leads up to the two Weird Al shows at...

Here’s the lineup for Downer Theatre’s new “Almost Midnight” movie series

Matt Wild

March 16, 2018

Do you like movies? Do you like "midnight" movies? Do you like watching "midnight" movies at midnight? If so, then you're sure to love Downer Theatre's new "Almost Midnight" movie series. Beginning in April, th...

Excellent! Lakefront Brewery will screen ‘Wayne’s World’ at Avalon Theater in April

Tyler Maas

March 13, 2018

Last month, Lakefront Brewery and Avalon Theater joined forces to show Tommy Boy on the eve of Chris Farley's birthday for an event they called "Farley + Barley." After the success of that sold out screening, t...

The case against Sony’s upcoming Slender Man movie

Maggie Iken

March 8, 2018

Despite the conclusion of the trials of teens Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier for the stabbing of their classmate Payton Leutner, Wisconsinites are not out of the woods yet in regards to Slender Man fallout. Son...

We got it all at Avalon Theater on April 4 when we screen the “Weird Al” classic ‘UHF’

Matt Wild

March 1, 2018

Put down your remote control. Throw out your TV Guide. Put away your jacket. There's no need to go outside. Well, there is a need to go outside on Wednesday, April 4. Yes, that's the night we're teaching poodle...

Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ridley announces Milwaukee-based No Studios

Matt Wild

February 27, 2018

At a press conference Tuesday afternoon at the Brewhouse Inn & Suites, Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ridley (12 Years A Slave, American Crime) announced the creation of No Studios, an upcoming hub for the cr...

Here’s the lineup for Avalon Theater’s “Miyazaki March” and “Anime April”

Matt Wild

February 1, 2018

Anime fans in Milwaukee have plenty to look forward to with this month's Anime Milwaukee convention, but the fun doesn't stop there: Today, Avalon Atmospheric Theater & Lounge unveiled its biggest-yet lineu...

Let’s take a moment to recognize that the guy who voiced Howard the Duck is from Milwaukee

Matt Wild

January 24, 2018

If you've ever stumbled across one of those "47 celebrities you didn't know were from Milwaukee" things, you've probably seen the usual suspects: Gene Wilder, Heather Graham, the nice lady who played Mrs. Garre...