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Mandatory Milwaukee: Red Letter Media remains the reigning champ of online review culture

Matt Wild
March 30, 2020
broadstreet.zone(77472); Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples (like Red Letter Media...

Watch Macaulay Culkin point at a bunch of stuff in Milwaukee

Tyler Maas
June 10, 2019
Last month, Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin dropped by Milwaukee to partake in some video collaborations with the local treasures at Red Letter Media. On top of making a cameo in a “Best Of The Worst” episode, ...

Watch Red Letter Media talk #DNC2020, trash Milwaukee and ‘Captain Marvel’

Matt Wild
March 12, 2019
God bless Red Letter Media. For a full decade, the Milwaukee-based film and video company has carved out a sweet slice of internet fame with its insanely popular "Mr. Plinkett" movie reviews, incisive and ridic...

Watch Red Letter Media watch ‘Surviving Edged Weapons,’ an insane Milwaukee police training tape from 1988

Matt Wild
December 5, 2017
God bless Red Letter Media. For nearly a decade the Milwaukee-based film and video company has carved out a sweet slice of internet fame with its insanely popular "Mr. Plinkett" movie reviews, incisive and ridi...

Red Letter Media’s “Previously Recorded” reviews ‘Dragon’s Dogma,’ wears great T-shirt

Matt Wild
February 9, 2016
// Red Letter Media is one of Milwaukee's best things. The locally based film/video production company found Internet fame back in 2009 with its meticulous takedowns of the Star Wars prequels, and has since...

Watch Red Letter Media predict exactly what will happen in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

Matt Wild
November 5, 2015
// It’s hard to overstate just how much Red Letter Media has influenced the way the Internet talks about Star Wars. The Milwaukee-based production company—made up of Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, the cherubic ...
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