Film

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

Matt Wild

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

Rob Wieland

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

Matt Wild

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

Matt Wild

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

Matt Wild

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...

Watch Rock ‘N’ Roller Remote Controller’s Season 2 premiere

Tyler Maas

February 3, 2015

Originally expected out last fall, the long-awaited Season 2 premiere of Milwaukee-made show Rock ’N’ Roller Remote Controller was posted on YouTube today in rather unheralded fashion, especially considering th...

Arte Para Todos seeks film festival submissions

Tyler Maas

January 28, 2015

If you've looked at any local music or entertainment resource based in or around Milwaukee this week, you've almost certainly seen something about Arte Para Todos. The first-year festival is impossible not to l...

2015 Milwaukee Film Festival dates announced

Milwaukee Record Staff

January 21, 2015

The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was by far the best year of the event's six-year run. Over the course of 15 days, 275 films from 63 countries screened in four theaters. More than 64,000 tickets were torn (up 1...

It’s all right! It’s okay! You can finally buy a Mark Borchardt T-shirt!

Matt Wild

January 14, 2015

In today’s “Why hasn’t this existed for the past 15 years?” news, you can finally buy your very own Mark Borchardt T-shirt. Yes, thanks to Milwaukee’s preeminent schlock filmmaker Frankie Latina (director of Mo...

Watch Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank on the set of Frankie Latina’s Snapshot

Matt Wild

January 6, 2015

Back in 2009, Milwaukee enfant terrible filmmaker Frankie Latina made a splash with Modus Operandi, a delightfully sleazy, Z-grade exploitation flick co-produced by Sasha Grey and starring Danny Trejo. It was t...

Everything you need to know about the two-woman Home Alone remake, Abode Solo

Matt Wild

December 3, 2014

//For moviegoers of a certain age, the holiday season wouldn’t be complete without the dutiful viewing of a certain classic Christmas film. No, not It’s A Wonderful Life or Die Hard: Home Alone, the 1990 J...

Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes will close out MPM’s Sci-Fi Film Fest

Matt Wild

November 13, 2014

The voters have spoken, and they’re voting for the “classics”: 1978’s Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes—a cautionary tale of what happens when the ketchup industry goes criminally unregulated—will close out the Mil...

Vote now! (For MPM Sci-Fi Film Fest’s “biggest sci-fi turkey of all time”)

Matt Wild

November 4, 2014

Last month, we informed you that nature had found a way, and Milwaukee Public Museum would be kicking off its new Sci-Fi Film Fest with Jurassic Park. The six-movie, six-week festival continues this Thursday an...

Help fund Christopher Darling, a local film about the underbelly of rock and roll

Matt Wild

October 23, 2014

On the surface, the life of a successful musician would seem to be one filled with endless pleasures, creative and emotional fulfillment, and “backstage changing tents” stocked with eager-to-please fans (Van Ha...

The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival, by the numbers

Matt Wild

October 14, 2014

It’s easy to say things like, “The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was great!” or, “Holy shit! The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival was the best damn f*#@ing film festival ever! Shit.” But for all those easy and obsce...

Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival: Something Must Break

Ashley Altadonna

October 14, 2014

All of us, at one point or another, are destined to feel the impetus of life calling. It’s that driving, crashing unstoppable force of nature whose gravity we cannot escape. This dynamism is at the heart of Swe...

Milwaukee Public Museum spares no expense, opens Sci-Fi Film Fest with Jurassic Park

Matt Wild

October 13, 2014

Back in 1993, director Steven Spielberg thrilled the world with Jurassic Park, the tale of out-of-control dinosaurs, the hubris of man, and Jeff Goldblum’s bare, glistening chest. Now, 21 years, two sequels, an...

10 standout moments from the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 10, 2014

And that’s a wrap: After 15 days of movies, more movies, and even more movies, the 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival has come to a close. Bookended by an opening-night screening of 1971 and last night’s sendoff from...

MFF2014: Club Sandwich carefully handles striking transformation

Tyler Maas

October 7, 2014

It’s hard to explore new territory in the well-represented “coming-of-age” film genre, short of, you know, actually filming a boy’s journey to manhood over the course of 12 years. (Oh wait, Richard Linklater’s ...