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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – Day Fifteen – Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

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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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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – The Dells

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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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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival: Day Thirteen – Can I Get a Witness?

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When you have science fiction movies podcast, it’s hard to resist their siren call at a film festival. Especially when you know that the film is more likely to focus on ideas instead of spectacle. Which is the long way of saying, I was intrigued by CAN I GET A WITNESS? playing at the 2025

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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – Woolly

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Sometimes you don’t have to reach too deep to figure out the pleasures of a film. WOOLLY is one such film which combines beautiful landscapes, meaningful but not easy work, personal relationships, and cute animals to create a portrait of a way of life. A way of life that may be on its way out.

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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – Day Ten – The Home

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Sometimes plans change and that can lead to pleasant surprises and discoveries. That was the occasion Saturday night when I decided that an 11:30 PM start of THE SHROUDS wasn’t really feasible, so I pivoted to an 8:30 start of THE HOME instead. With most horror films, it’s a question on what primal fears that

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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – Day Nine – 40 Acres

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40 ACRES was a fallback option when I couldn’t make it to THE LIBRARIANS. Which is no shade on the film, I had other options, it has an interesting premise “post-apocalyptic siege thriller”, and it has a start, Danielle Deadwyler, I was eager to see. Alas it proved to be a mixed bag, but at

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