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Here’s the 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival’s Rated K: For Kids program

March 12, 2026

The 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival is set to light up the screens of the Oriental and Downer theaters April 16-30. (Advance ticket packages and passes are available NOW.) Nearly 250 short and feature-length docum...

Milwaukee Film unveils first set of MFF26 films, festival artwork

Matt Wild

March 10, 2026

The 2026 Milwaukee Film Festival cometh! Yes, the 18th annual cinematic blowout is set to take over the screens of the Oriental and Downer theaters April 16-30. It's gonna be great. (The Downer, in case you mis...

Milwaukee Horror Con wants to fill Baird Center with 250+ Jasons, set world record

Tea Krulos

March 9, 2026

This week ends with everyone's favorite unlucky day, Friday the 13th. And on Sunday, March 15, Wisconsin Avenue will fill with hundreds of people dressed as the holiday's equivalent to Santa Claus—famous movie ...

Milwaukee Film buys Downer Theatre, launches restoration campaign

Matt Wild

March 2, 2026

Good news, Milwaukee movie buffs: Milwaukee Film announced Monday that it has purchased the historic Downer Theatre, 2589 N. Downer Ave., from Bridge33 Capital. The nonprofit Milwaukee Film took over operations...

We’re screening ‘Ghost World’ at Avalon Theater on March 18

Tyler Maas

February 19, 2026

Today in things that will probably make you feel old comes the realization that Ghost World is turning 25 this year. Yes, the dark comedy and certified cult classic based on the Daniel Clowes comic by the same ...

We’re screening ‘Jackie Brown’ at Avalon Theater on February 18

Tyler Maas

January 22, 2026

It's honestly pretty tough to follow this month's screening of Children Of Men, but dammit, we must! And without patting ourselves on the back too much, Jackie Brown might be the best way to handle the almost i...

Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays will surely be in attendance for ‘Airplane!’ screening at Pabst Theater

Matt Wild

January 12, 2026

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

Milwaukee Film unveils snazzy new logo, website

Matt Wild

January 9, 2026

Milwaukee Film, the ever-busy nonprofit organization that stages the annual Milwaukee Film Festival and operates the historic Oriental and Downer theaters all year long, has a snazzy new look for 2026. Out with...

In new documentary, Corey Feldman suggests I’m “working for the dark side”

Matt Wild

January 6, 2026

In March 2017, I drove to Green Bay to see Corey Feldman & The Angels play a show at the Green Bay Distillery. I wrote about the show in a subsequent review, "I saw Corey Feldman & The Angels in Green B...

Milwaukee Film will screen all 18 episodes of ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ January 9-14

Matt Wild

January 2, 2026

Visionary artist and filmmaker David Lynch died on January 20, 2024. (Bob Uecker died the same day. Talk about tough days.) Now, ahead of the one-year anniversary of Lynch's passing to a realm both wonderful an...

MKE Music Rewind: ‘Song Sung Blue’ documentary (2008)

Matt Wild

December 18, 2025

broadstreet.zone(159870); In MKE Music Rewind we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014. This week: the original Song Sung Blue documentary from ...

Mentally prepare yourself to watch ‘Children Of Men’ with us at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

December 18, 2025

Imagine, if you can, a bleak and dystopian version of the world in the mid-2020s in which violence and division run rampant. Inhumane and deplorable immigration policies enacted by a totalitarian government are...

Here’s the lineup for Neighborhood Theater Group’s “Ho Ho Holiday Movie Bash”

Tyler Maas

December 3, 2025

Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and the city is currently covered in snow, it’s safe to say it: the holidays are right around the corner. Along with their approach also comes another annual seasonal traditio...

Mandatory Milwaukee: Watching the greatest Milwaukee-made Thanksgiving movie of all time

Matt Wild

November 25, 2025

broadstreet.zone(77472); Some Milwaukee things come and go while some become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. This week: Watching the greatest Milwaukee-made Thanksgiving movie of all time. ...

Party like it’s 2032 and watch ‘Demolition Man’ at Avalon Theater on December 17

Tyler Maas

November 20, 2025

Now that we've entered the final six weeks of the year, we can't help but look ahead to the future. No, not 2026. We're talking about taking a 115-minute trip to the year 2032 when we screen Demolition Man at A...

Some of the best Door County/Wisconsin things in Great American Family network’s new movie, ‘A Wisconsin Christmas Pie’

Tyler Maas

November 6, 2025

Now that Halloween is in the rear view and we're almost a week into November, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Okay, that's not quite true yet, but that's not stopping advertisers, retailers, radio ...

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

Annie Raab

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...