Movies

Moving Pictures: How To Train Your Dragon
Moving Pictures

How To Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon is fairly predictable, but makes for a charming story that children and grown-ups will love.

Moving Pictures: Chloe
Moving Pictures

Chloe

Director Atom Egoyan's "Chloe" is a definitive example of elegance in film-making.

Moving Pictures: Greenberg
Moving Pictures

Greenberg

Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is more like an homage to nothingness and disconnection than it is a quirky, insightful dark comedy.

MFF Winter Review: Lola Montes
MFF Winter Review

Lola Montes

After reaching the peak of her career, Lola Montes is forced to participate while her life is exploited, pandering to bloodthirsty crowds as the "repentant whore."

MFF Winter Review: Collapse
MFF Winter Review

Collapse

To drink the Kool-Aid or not? That seems to be the question director Chris Smith and Co. posit in this Errol Morris-inspired documentary about conspiracies come true.

MFF Winter Review: Red Cliff
MFF Winter Review

Red Cliff

John Woo's "Red Cliff" is like a chess game played by gods. Except the gods are men-complicated, flawed and necessarily devious men.

MFF Winter Review: Fish Tank
MFF Winter Review

Fish Tank

One morning, Mia is making tea in the kitchen when her mother’s new boyfriend appears. A complicated and bruising relationship develops, lubricated by a steady stream of alcohol.

MFF Winter Review: Mine
MFF Winter Review

Mine

"Mine" cleverly uses the guise of an emotional, animal loving documentary to show just one more way in which the victims of Katrina have been neglected in the storm’s aftermath.

MFF Winter Review: The Bad Lieutenant
MFF Winter Review

The Bad Lieutenant

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the storm of nature recedes and the rebuilding of the city begins, a man-made storm of drugs,gambling and crime gathers momentum.

MFF Winter Review: Which Way Home
MFF Winter Review

Which Way Home

Mark reviews Which Way Home, a film that documents the journeys of young children as they migrate from their impoverished homes in Mexico and Central America in search of the American Dream. Plus, listen to a bonus audio interview with producer and former Milwaukeean Jack Turner.

Festival season comes early this year

Festival season comes early this year

Going through film festival withdrawal? Never fear, Milwaukee Film's Winter Edition is here!

Moving Pictures: The White Ribbon rattles our beliefs
Moving Pictures

The White Ribbon rattles our beliefs

Michael Hanecke's award-winning film takes you on an uncomfortable though necessary journey into the secret lives of the people in a tiny village.