This month, Cody, Robert, and Nat discuss the perils of adaptation without a clear vision with 2005’s AEON FLUX. On paper AEON FLUX looks like it had a chance. Charlize Theron had recently won an Oscar for MONSTER. Frances McDormand was at the height of her popularity. Johnny Lee Miller had made a bit of […]
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This spooky month, Nat, Cody, and Robert dust off their singing voices for Frank Oz’s adaptation of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Based on writer Howard Ashman’s and composer Alan Menken’s off-broadway musical (itself adapted from Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith’s 1960 cult flick THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS), LITTLE SHOP tells the story of perennial
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The 2025 Dialogues Documentary Film Festival wrapped up for me on its third day, notably Autumnal, on Saturday. A good sized crowd came along for the journey to see SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO. SINGING BACK THE BUFFALO is mostly about indigenous tribes efforts to reestablish buffalo herds into something approaching their historical free-range status after
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Dialogues Documentary Film Festival kicked off from Milwaukee film the calendar said it was still summer but there are several different seasons for film critics; The spring festival season, the summer movie season, the fall festival season, and awards season. Not too long ago, the fall festival season used to be the stomping ground of
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Milwaukee Film chose JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE to close out this year’s film festival. And it’s easy to see why they chose a relative crowd pleaser like this. But, does its amiability substitute for some story deficiencies? In JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE, Agathe (Camille Rutherford) works at the famed Shakespeare and Company bookstore
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THE DELLS is a documentary by Nellie Kluz observing the lives and travails of numerous foreign born temporary workers filling service jobs during tourist season at the Wisconsin Dells. They work long hours, are woefully underpaid, aren’t supported very well in respect to having a place off work, and to a person seem really happy
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