Sep 9, 2026

For her 2025 release pick, Rita selected a film with loads of local Milwaukee flair. Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play Mike and Claire Sardina, a real-life Neil Diamond tribute duo known as Lightning & Thunder. Documentary filmmaker Greg Kohs captured the couple’s attempted comeback in a 2008 festival favorite,...

Sep 2, 2026

From the depths of his birth year - 1980 - Beef brings us a tale of horror and suspense based on Stephen King’s classic novel. Yes, for the second month in a row, Beef picked a movie based on a story by Stephen King. Redrum! Redrum! Redrum! Yes, it is that movie, the one directed by Stanley Kubrick and...

Aug 26, 2026

Aug-Heist comes to a close with this 1995 Michael Mann film starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, sharing screen time for the first time in their careers. Mann already made this movie once, in 1989 as a made-for-TV movie called L.A. Takedown. In this iteration, De Niro plays the leader of a sophisticated band...

Aug 19, 2026

Our first-ever Aug-Heist pick, 1973’s The Sting, saw Paul Newman and Robert Redford re-team with director George Roy Hill for a Depression-era crime caper. Now, we’re reviewing the 1969 film that brought the three of them back together for the first time. The film, from a script by legendary writer William Goldman,...

Aug 12, 2026

In 2021, I, Tonya and future Supergirl director Craig Gillespie unleashed the live-action origin story of Disney's 101 Dalmatians baddie Cruella De Vil. Emma Stone dons the iconic black-and-white wig as the dognapping fashionista, here an orphaned up-and-coming designer in ‘70s punk rock London who also does crime....