I don’t particularly like cradle to the grave films. They inevitably end up as a highlight reel and never dig too deeply into the interesting stuff as they have to keep moving on. While Joan Baez isn’t in the grave yet, JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE uses the end of her performing career as […]
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Heading into the Milwaukee Film Festival I had a few movies circled as must see with DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD atop that list. As the 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival winds down, that choice looks especially good as DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
One of my mottos of film festival going is to “see the South Korean movies.” Especially the genre fare. South Korea has been making some of the most exciting genre movies this century. Which made the late night screening of SLEEP almost a no brainer. SLEEP begins like many horror films, seemingly innocuously. A happily
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It was a surprisingly packed house Friday night for the Cinema Hooligante / Teen Screen programmed HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON screening at the Times Cinema. And it appeared to send everyone home for the night in a good mood. Sasha (Sara Montpetit), who appears to be a teenager physically and perhaps emotionally, is
Every year the Milwaukee Film Festival presents a Super Secret Members-Only Screening featuring a surprise film. Generally, it’s an upcoming independent narrative film or documentary that has some buzz or anticipation surrounding it. This year, the choice was RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS which is essentially a concert film resulting in some walkouts and a minor kerfuffle
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There’s perhaps no better director in the world at understanding of children and families than Hirokazu Kore-eda. Over the last decade plus he’s explored those concepts in films like I WISH, LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, AFTER THE STORM, and SHOPLIFTERS. And that brings us to the latest, MONSTER, which brings some new wrinkles to the
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