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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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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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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“It’s better to burn out than to fade away” – Neil Young “Glory days Well, they’ll pass you by, glory days In the wink of a young girl’s eye, glory days Glory days” – Bruce Springsteen Sometimes the local film festival brings you stories that you would think you would know about. This year’s example
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Last year at the Milwaukee Film Festival there were walkouts at the Secret Members Only Screening. I think there was a lot of overreaction to a somewhat difficult movie, but I also didn’t think for a second that Milwaukee Film wouldn’t turn in a more crowd-pleasing direction. And they did exactly that by choosing the
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SECRET MALL APARTMENT taps into a lot of today’s hot button issues like gentrification, privatization of once public spaces, corporate control, white privilege, public art, and just sticking it to the man. It’s also a larger than life tale that is very funny in turns. Back in the early 2000s, a group of artists found
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