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The cowboy in your backyard: Issac Steele is the subject of Natalie Derr’s upcoming documentary

October 16, 2025

You won't find Natalie Derr, artist and inspired documentarian, promoting her first film, Forged By Steele, on social media. "I'm not sharing it on any platform," she tells me over the phone at the start of our...

You probably think we’re screening ‘The Greasy Strangler’ on November 19

Josh Hoppert

October 16, 2025

If you missed last night’s screening of Death Becomes Her at Avalon Theater, we hope you had a nice time watching some other Isabella Rossellini movie instead. The screening for November is now ready to roll an...

It’s alright, it’s okay, Mark Borchardt will introduce ‘Coven’ October 16 at the Times

Matt Wild

October 9, 2025

As we all know, Mark Borchardt's 1997's film Coven is a 35-minute direct-market thriller film shot on 16mm black and white reversal. It's about an alcoholic, man, compelled to go to this group meeting by his on...

Where is the 2006 cult classic ‘Monster House’ really set? (Spoiler: It’s a Wisconsin story.)

Adam Smith

October 2, 2025

Every generation has its defining holiday films, and if you’re an early-2000s kid like me, you won’t be surprised to hear that I consider Monster House one of the greatest Halloween movies ever. It’s definitely...

“A role of a lifetime”: Jeffrey Combs talks Herbert West, ‘Re-Animator’ ahead of 40th-anniversary screening

Matt Wild

September 30, 2025

There's no film quite like 1985's Re-Animator. Is it a horror film? A comedy? A Frankenstein/"mad scientist" spoof? A horror-comedy-Frankenstein/"mad scientist"-spoof? Whatever it is, it's an absolute hoot, and...

The Onion’s Jeffrey Epstein mockumentary will screen at X-Ray Arcade October 17

Matt Wild

September 29, 2025

Satirical warhorse The Onion made news last week when it unveiled the existence of Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile, a 20-minute "yes, this is real" doc/mockumentary created by The Onion. "Forget everything yo...

Live forever at our screening of ‘Death Becomes Her,’ October 15 at Avalon Theater

Matt Wild

September 18, 2025

The spooky season is upon us, which means oodles and oodles of spooky movies! Or, in the case of our screening of Death Becomes Her, set for Wednesday, October 15 at the Avalon Atmospheric Theater, darkly funny...

Good Shit Video to bring endangered media to Walker’s Point storefront

Tyler Maas

September 17, 2025

The last 18 months have been rather unkind to 5th Street. Since the beginning of last summer, the Walker's Point thoroughfare has seen some notable local businesses leaving the street in fairly rapid succession...

Get a whiff of the trailer for Milwaukee-made sci-fi/horror short ‘Aroma-Vision’

Matt Wild

September 11, 2025

"With the invention of a new television that broadcasts scent, an ordinary man is pulled into a daunting new cooking show." As far as loglines go, that one's a winner. It's for Aroma-Vision, an entirely Milw...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are Milwaukee’s Lightning & Thunder in ‘Song Sung Blue’ trailer

Matt Wild

September 9, 2025

It's a Milwaukee story through and through: a man and woman meet at Ma Fischer's in 1989 and decide to start a Neil Diamond tribute act called Lightning & Thunder; the tribute act takes off and becomes a lo...

Everyone’s entitled to 27 good scares during Shocktoberfest at Avalon, Rosebud, Times

Matt Wild

September 5, 2025

Are you already prepping for the Halloween season in mid-September? Of course you are. Are you looking forward to October, when the Halloween season really gets cooking? Again, of course you are. So without ...

Here’s the full lineup for the 2025 Dialogues Documentary Festival

Matt Wild

September 3, 2025

If you think Milwaukee Film is just about the annual Milwaukee Film Festival (and, um, running the Oriental and Downer theaters all year round), think again! Milwaukee Film's second annual Dialogues Documentary...

We’re showing ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ at Avalon Theater (again) on September 17

Tyler Maas

August 21, 2025

In 2015, we said goodbye to the summer with a late September screening of Wet Hot American Summer. The first-ever Milwaukee showing of the cult comedy classic sold out, people dressed up as characters from the ...

Milwaukee Film unveils six films coming to 2025 Dialogues Documentary Festival

Matt Wild

August 19, 2025

If you think Milwaukee Film is just about the annual Milwaukee Film Festival (and, um, running the Oriental and Downer theaters all year round), think again! Milwaukee Film's second annual Dialogues Document...

Help make Frankie Latina’s ‘Skinny Dip’ (starring Mark Borchardt) a horror-film reality

Matt Wild

August 13, 2025

Back in 2023, Milwaukee enfant terrible filmmaker Frankie Latina launched a GoFundMe for his third feature film, Skinny Dip. The horror flick was only in pre-production at that point, but its classic "campers b...

4K screening of ‘Re-Animator,’ Q&A with Jeffrey Combs coming to Pabst Theater October 3

Matt Wild

August 4, 2025

There's no film quite like 1985's Re-Animator. Is it a horror film? A comedy? A Frankenstein/"mad scientist" spoof? A horror-comedy-Frankenstein/"mad scientist"-spoof? Whatever it is, it's an absolute hoot. And...

Witness the absolutely true ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ August 20 at Avalon Theater

Matt Wild

July 24, 2025

Tickets HERE. Everyone knows the absolutely true story of music legend "Weird Al" Yankovic. How his parents disapproved of his accordion playing. How he rocketed to fame on the strength of his original song ...

Marcus Ridge Cinema’s Sneak Peek Theatre: The Milwaukee Record Review

Tyler Maas

July 22, 2025

Cinema is in an interesting (if not concerning) place right now. The ubiquity of streaming has devalued and tarnished the moviegoing experience. Coupling that with perpetual economic uncertainty and changing co...

We’re screening ‘Hot Fuzz’ at Avalon Theater on July 23

Tyler Maas

June 19, 2025

Thanks to each and every one of you who made it out to last night's Milwaukee Record screening of Real Genius at Avalon Theater. What a night! Whether or not you attended, we're pleased to let you know we'll be...

Mandatory Milwaukee: The popcorn at the Oriental and Downer theaters is the best

Matt Wild

June 17, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go, while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: the popcorn at Oriental and Downer theaters! Popcorn and movie th...