Film

Flip out, man! We’re screening ‘Half Baked’ at Avalon Theater

July 19, 2018

Last night, we hosted two sold out screenings of Better Off Dead at Avalon Theater. Thanks to everyone who made it out! We had an awesome time. Though our July screening will be tough to top, we're still going ...

RZA will perform a live re-scoring of ’36 Chambers of Shaolin’ at Oriental Theatre

Tyler Maas

July 17, 2018

Oriental Theatre hasn't even re-opened yet, and we already love what Milwaukee Film is doing with the place. The newly-renovated theater and all-around local treasure is scheduled to return on August 10. A coup...

“C’mon, movie, what are we doing here?” An interview with We Hate Movies co-host Stephen Sajdak

Matt Wild

July 11, 2018

Throw a stone and you'll hit 8,000 "bad movie" review shows on the internet. These shows range from the good (Milwaukee's own Red Letter Media) to the unwatchable (insert random YouTuber here). Near the top of ...

Get a sneak peek at Milwaukee Film’s renovation and restoration of the Oriental Theatre

Matt Wild

July 2, 2018

On Sunday, July 1, Milwaukee Film officially took over operations of Milwaukee's historic Oriental Theatre. One day later (the Oriental's 91st birthday, coincidentally), the new stewards are already hard at wor...

Everybody wants some! We’ve added a second ‘Better Off Dead’ showing on July 18

Tyler Maas

June 26, 2018

Last Thursday, we announced our intentions to screen the Savage Steve Holland-directed, John Cusack-starring cult comedy Better Off Dead at Avalon Theater on Wednesday, July 18. We knew we weren't the only ones...

Reminder: Oriental Theatre isn’t closed for good (Milwaukee Film is taking over and will reopen it soon)

Matt Wild

June 22, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• If you've seen the Oriental Theatre's marquee in recent days (or if you've ch...

You’d be ‘Better Off Dead’ than to miss our screening at Avalon Theater July 18

Matt Wild

June 21, 2018

Four weeks. Twenty weekdays. That's approximately how long you have until we screen the 1985 dark comedy classic Better Off Dead at Avalon Theater. On Wednesday, July 18, Milwaukee Record, the Avalon, and new s...

Get a jump on Bastille Days with a screening of ‘Amélie’ at Avalon Theater July 11

Matt Wild

June 19, 2018

You know you're in the thick of another Milwaukee summer when Bastille Days rolls around. The ever-popular French festival returns for its 37th year July 12-15 at Cathedral Square Park, bringing with it all the...

Greetings, Professor Falken: SafeHouse will screen 1983’s ‘WarGames’ June 25

Matt Wild

June 19, 2018

10 PRINT "Remember 1983's WarGames? You know, the one with Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy? The one where Broderick hacks a NORAD supercomputer and almost starts World War III because he thinks he's playing a...

Yeah…we’re going to need you to go ahead and check out Rosebud Cinema’s “Geek Week” movie lineup

Tyler Maas

June 5, 2018

With their movie series put together in accordance with Halloween and Christmas, anime nights, unique monthly themes like “Antihero April” and “Martial Arts May,” honoring fallen music greats, hosting classic m...

Joel, Jonah, and the Bots are bringing ‘MST3K’ back to Riverside Theater November 15

Matt Wild

June 4, 2018

Remember when Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed on 1962's The Brain That Wouldn't Die? Well, 30 years after MST3K first premiered on a low-budget television station in Minneapolis, it's clear that it, too, wo...

Check out the 2018 Bike-In Movie Series schedule, help make the series possible

Matt Wild

May 30, 2018

With warm weather comes the pleasures of biking, and with the pleasures of biking comes the pleasures of the annual Milwaukee Bike-In Movie Series. For the past 10 summers, the grassroots, free, Friday-night ev...

Watch an episode of Adult Swim’s ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’ that was filmed at a Milwaukee diner

Tyler Maas

May 22, 2018

Late Sunday night, a new series called Joe Pera Talks With You premiered on Adult Swim. The sub-15-minute show stars actor/comedian Joe Pera as a slow-talking, well-meaning middle school choir teacher living in...

Jump into summer with a June 20 screening of ‘Hot Rod’ at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

May 17, 2018

The fine folks at Avalon Theater have been kind enough to let Milwaukee Record screen a different under-appreciated classic at the Bay View movie house every month lately. Last night, we followed up April's sol...

Strangers’ lives entangle in Milwaukee-made feature, ‘Lesser Beasts’

Tyler Maas

May 8, 2018

In addition to the all-around excellence of the Milwaukee Film Festival and frequent screenings of time-tested favorites and cult classics (cough!) at the city's various neighborhood theaters, the state of cine...

‘American Gods’ has started filming at House on the Rock

Matt Wild

May 4, 2018

Last summer, we paid a visit to the most quintessential of bat-shit Wisconsin oddities, House on the Rock. "House on the Rock is a glimpse into the mind of a madman," we said back in August 2017. "It's an illus...

Riverwest Film & Video documentary premieres at Wisconsin Film Festival

Tone Madison

April 11, 2018

The following piece by Reid Kurkerewicz was originally published on Tone Madison under the headline "Filmmaker Emir Cakaroz on being a fly in the soup."Emir Cakaroz is a Milwaukee-based filmmaker and UW-Mil...

Join us for a 20th anniversary screening of ‘Can’t Hardly Wait’ at Avalon Theater

Tyler Maas

April 5, 2018

It's going to be tough to top last night's sold-out screening of UHF we hosted at Avalon Theater, but dammit if we won't try. With school ending and the film's 20th anniversary a few weeks away, we figured it w...

Our ‘UHF’ after-party at Vanguard will feature Weird Al music and videos, Twinkie Wiener Sandwiches

Matt Wild

April 3, 2018

Hey! Welcome to Weird Al Week! For the next seven weekdays, Milwaukee Record will be filling your feed with fresh, funny, and slightly fanatical Al-related materiel. It all leads up to the two Weird Al shows at...

Here’s the lineup for Downer Theatre’s new “Almost Midnight” movie series

Matt Wild

March 16, 2018

Do you like movies? Do you like "midnight" movies? Do you like watching "midnight" movies at midnight? If so, then you're sure to love Downer Theatre's new "Almost Midnight" movie series. Beginning in April, th...