Tagged Avalon Theater

The 1980s were loaded with "kid adventure" films: The Goonies, Explorers, Flight Of The Navigator, etc. But how many of those "kid adventure" films had the kids squaring off against Dracula, the Wolfman, Franke...

If you missed Wednesday night's sold-out screening of Jaws at Avalon Theater, there's no way you know what our September screening will be. Well, unless you read the title of this article. Anyway, get ready for...

Y'all know Milwaukee Record. Know how we earn a livin'. Music, culture, gentle sarcasm, monthly movie screenings at the Avalon Atmospheric Theater. We're screening Jaws at the Avalon on Wednesday, August 23, bu...

Joey, do you like endlessly quotable and ridiculously absurd movies from 1980 that feature Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? ("Tell your old man to drag Walton ...

Has any modern-ish movie been more misunderstood than Starship Troopers? Decried by critics as a dirt-dumb glorification of fascism and jingoism upon its 1997 release, the film has since been celebrated as a sa...

Summer is almost here! The arrival of the new season is also accompanied by warmer weather, longer days, dozens upon dozens of festivals and block parties, and—at least for the parents among us—the constant nee...

These days, video games are relied upon to be the source material for a wide variety of films and television shows. Long before the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise was dominating the box office, The Last Of Us was...

Hey dude, this is no cartoon: On Wednesday, January 25, we're screening the 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film at the Avalon Atmospheric Theater. Reserved seating tickets to the 7 p.m. screening...

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and hopefully you had a chance to squeeze in your requisite viewing of Planes, Trains and Automobiles sometime last month. And since there's no such thing as too much John Candy,...

Tim Burton's 1989 Batman was an attempt to move the Caped Crusader as far away from the cartoony camp of the '60s Batman TV show as possible. It worked, and was perfected with Burton's 1992 Batman Returns. Stil...

What do you get when you combine a wickedly dark vampire movie with a teenage adventure film, and then spike it with a cast of '80s icons, the future director of Batman & Robin, a terrific soundtrack, a ter...

Director Joe Dante injected plenty of dark and subversive humor into 1984's Gremlins (look no further than the infamous "Santa Claus" story), but when it came time to direct the sequel six years later, Dante we...

Last night, an enthusiastic audience joined us at Avalon Theater for a screening of Blade. While that’s certainly a tough act to follow, we think you’re going to have a ball at next month’s screening. Join us a...