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Before he was Kenny Powers, Neil Gamby, Jesse Gemstone, or part of the Alien cinematic universe, Danny McBride first made his mark as Fred Simmons—a small town Taekwondo instructor with an inflated ego and a de...

Thank you to everyone who made it out to last night's SOLD OUT Milwaukee Record screening of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar at Avalon Theater. What a night and what a movie! So how are we ever...

Thanks to everyone who braved the elements and navigated the flood waters in order to watch Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story with us last night. It was a great time, and we're excited to follow it up with another...

Most people have one of three experiences with Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. They either love it, they’ve never seen it but are sure to love it once they finally do, or they saw it and kind of liked it initia...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

The great Val Kilmer passed away on April 1 at the age of 65. He left behind a filmography filled with idiosyncratic classics: Top Secret!, Top Gun, Willow, The Doors, Tombstone, Heat—hell, even The Island Of D...

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,...

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...

Imagine this: You forgot to buy a present and/or make restaurant reservations for Valentine's Day. Your significant other is...displeased. But a-ha! You did buy tickets ahead of time for our screening of the 20...