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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – Day Four – Art Spiegleman: Disaster is My Muse

I like to take chances on films at film festivals, but I confess that ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE was pretty much a slam dunk. So no need to beat around the bush, I had a great time. ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE is a PBS documentary. So, yes, it’s not going to […]

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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival: Move Ya Body: The Birth of House

One of the continuing features of the Milwaukee Film Festival is an emphasis on music documentaries, courtesy of its Sound Vision program. And music documentaries are unlikely just to be a dry recitation of facts, but get into the cultural and geographic aspects of where the music comes from. And that’s one of the principal

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2025 Milwaukee Film Festival – Day One – Sally

It’s been a whole year since the last Milwaukee Film Festival. There’s been some changes, a smaller geographic footprint mostly and they’re hosting a block party outside the Oriental Theatre on Opening Night, but it’s positioning itself as the kickoff of the Milwaukee Festival Season and there’s good buzz as always. This year’s kickoff film

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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 124″Frankenstein Created Woman”

Robert, Nat, and Cody grapple with Terence Fisher’s 3rd outing with the Hammer Frankenstein series with 1967’s FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN. Following THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, Hammer decided that they couldn’t keep a not so good Baron down and did something of a soft reboot as they continued the story of Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) with

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2024 Milwaukee Film’s Dialogues Documentary Film Festival “We Can Be Heroes”

One of the big primetime screenings of the 2024 Dialogues Documentary Film Festival was WE CAN BE HEROES. And it was very easy to see why, as it was a big crowd pleaser. It’s clearly in the lineage of documentaries that were inspired by SPELLBOUND, teens and children involved in a niche activity that brings

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