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MFF2015 announces full lineup, including teenage Raiders Of The Lost Ark remake

September 3, 2015

It’s September, which can mean only one thing: the Milwaukee Film Festival is almost upon us. The 2015 fest—which runs September 24-October 8 at the Landmark Oriental Theatre, Landmark Downer Theatre, Fox-Bay C...

We’re showing Wet Hot American Summer at The Avalon

August 26, 2015

It’s sad to say, but summer is almost over. The temperature is dropping, the sun is setting a little earlier each day, and Packers players are already sustaining year-ending injuries. Instead of mourning the se...

Here’s UWM Union Cinema’s fall 2015 lineup

August 26, 2015

The UWM Union Cinema (formerly Union Theatre) has been a hidden-not-really-hidden gem of Milwaukee’s East Side since 1972. Located inside the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union, the unassuming thea...

UW-Oshkosh professor and Big Lebowski superfan Paul Niesen talks Lebowski Fest, “The Dude,” cats

August 21, 2015

To say the Coen brothers' shaggy dog story The Big Lebowski has gained a cult following since its release in 1998 would be a bowling alley-sized understatement. The twisting tale of Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski ...

Tommy Wiseau and The Room will return to Oriental Theatre in September

August 18, 2015

In a world of cynical imitators and cheesy-on-purpose clones (we’re looking at you, Sharknado), The Room remains the gold standard for completely sincere, completely stupefying so-bad-it’s-good cinema. The empt...

Help Milwaukee natives fund new comedy series, Shangri-L.A., featuring Mark Borchardt

August 13, 2015

It’s a tale as old as time: aspiring filmmakers move to Los Angeles in hopes of fulfilling their starry-eyed Hollywood dreams; aspiring filmmakers watch as their starry-eyed Hollywood dreams get kicked, punched...

The demented Kickstarter trailer for horror film Needlepoint is worth a donation alone

August 12, 2015

If there’s one thing more ubiquitous than lame Kickstarter campaigns, it’s lame trailers for lame Kickstarter campaigns. Seriously, would it kill folks who are asking the Internet for money to jazz up their pit...

Milwaukee Film announces Sound Vision program, return of Stop Making Sense

August 11, 2015

If our calculations are correct, the 2015 Milwaukee Film Festival is approximately one month and 13 days away. What does that mean? Ignoring for a moment the painful reminder that summer is on its way out, it m...

Inconceivable: The Princess Bride screening at Riverside Theater with Cary Elwes has been canceled

July 24, 2015

The Princess Bride is one of those movies that isn’t just beloved by countless fans, it’s internalized. The absurdist quotes (“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die,”) the plethora of l...

UWM Union Theatre announces new name, admission policy

July 13, 2015

The UWM Union Theatre is one of those hidden-but-not-really-hidden gems that makes Milwaukee (and Milwaukee’s East Side, in particular) such a wonderful place to live. Since 1972, the unassuming movie theater l...

Milwaukee Film announces grant program for cash-strapped local filmmakers, i.e. all local filmmakers

July 8, 2015

When it comes to things that are really, really expensive to do well, making a film ranks somewhere between building a house and raising a child. Even in the gleaming future of relatively inexpensive digital eq...

Dustin Diamond is not a “knife-wielding madman,” says director of two Dustin Diamond movies

June 29, 2015

As you may have heard, former Saved By The Bell actor, onetime Behind The Bell wordsmith, and occasional ’90s-theme-party host Dustin Diamond is in jail. Well, he’s supposed to be in jail, but he filed an appea...

Taking The City By Storm will document Milwaukee’s early punk scene

June 23, 2015

Remember the days when the early history of Milwaukee’s punk scene was grossly undocumented and uncelebrated? Milwaukee Record remembers. Happily, those days are long gone. The last five years or so have seen a...

Help fund a documentary about breaking the cycle of homelessness in Milwaukee

June 17, 2015

It’s rare to find a Kickstarter campaign that’s both worthwhile and financially feasible. Ridiculous ideas paired with ridiculous funding goals are all too common on the popular crowdfunding site. But every now...

I finally saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a live cast at the Oriental Theater

June 11, 2015

Prior to last month, I had seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show only once, when I was 15. My friends and I were gathered in the wood-paneled basement of the only girl who would give us the time of day, watching m...

Here’s the ridiculously great lineup for Point Fish Fry & A Flick 2015

June 1, 2015

Since 2009, for a handful of Fridays throughout the summer, Point Fish Fry & A Flick has transformed Discovery World on the lakefront into an outdoor movie mecca. Co-produced by the Pabst Theater Group, the...

A certain point of view: Milwaukee’s connection to Star Wars reference site Wookieepedia

May 4, 2015

The Star Wars Expanded Universe—all the books, comics, video games, and other materials that expand the story beyond the original films—has a complex relationship with the ever-popular franchise. Some things ar...

2015 Milwaukee Film Festival now accepting entries

March 26, 2015

It may seem blasphemous to wish for autumn with summer still a few months off, but when it comes to the Milwaukee Film Festival, we’re happy to blaspheme away. Today, Milwaukee Film announced that it is accepti...

Milwaukee filmmaker Erik Ljung produces Dontre Hamilton video for New York Times

March 19, 2015

Today at 4:30 p.m., the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission will hear a disciplinary appeal for former Milwaukee Police Officer Christopher Manney—the officer who shot and killed Dontre Hamilton in Red Arrow P...

Former Milwaukeean Rob Schrab will direct the Lego Movie sequel

February 25, 2015

Still delirious from the delightfully bat-shit performance of The Lego Movie’s “Everything Is Awesome” at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony? Well, if you’re from Wisconsin, this shouldn’t help: as reported by pretty much...