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Local filmmakers delve "Into The Pit" with Deadpit.com documentary


Published April 3, 2010 at 9:03 a.m.


For real horror film fans, Deadpit Radio, an Internet radio show, as been the ultimate authority on the genre since launching in 2005, and its hosts, "Uncle Bill" and "The Creepy Kentuckian," have, for the most part, been as mysterious as they've been influential to the film industry.

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Milwaukee Film's Winter Edition starts Friday


Published March 10, 2010 at 1:04 p.m.


For the first time since its inception in 2008, Milwaukee Film is hosting a smaller, mini festival as a complement to its annual event each fall. The Winter Edition, held March 12-18 at the Marcus North Shore Cinema, features nine critically acclaimed films that will be shown multiple times throughout the week.

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Tosa East grad stars in Milwaukee film premiere


Published March 5, 2010 at 10:53 a.m.


When the film "Drivers Ed Mutiny" makes its Milwaukee premiere at The Times Cinema on Thursday, March 11, it will feature 2005 Wauwatosa East graduate Hunter Johnson.

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"Fish Fry Night Milwaukee" traces a Brew City tradition


Published Feb. 18, 2010 at 11:20 a.m.


Ron Faiola visits some of Milwaukee's most beloved fish fry venues in his hour-long documentary, "Fish Fry Night Milwaukee." The film, which made its world premiere in Milwaukee in October, screens Friday, Feb. 19 in Beloit as part of the Beloit International Film Festival.

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Spice up a movie with an alcoholic beverage


Published Jan. 20, 2010 at 5:14 a.m.


Back in the day, if you wanted to drink alcohol in a movie theater you had to smuggle in a flask to spike an overpriced soda. Luckily, for the love of cinema soaks everywhere, more and more theaters are adding alcohol to the menu along with the usual popcorn-and-Junior Mints fare. Here's a list of local theaters that serve alcohol.

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Local film "Starts Friday" starts Thursday at The Times


Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 3:05 p.m.


When Kenosha-area filmmaker Ben Lewandowski started working on his film "Starts Friday" in 1999, he had no idea it would become a decade-long project. The feature length movie -- shot with amateur Milwaukee actors on the East Side -- makes its Milwaukee debut on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. at The Times Cinema.

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Short Film festival preps 11th annual event


Published Aug. 30, 2009 at 10:18 a.m.


The Milwaukee Independent Film Society presents the 11th installment of the Milwaukee Short Film Festival, billed as the longest-running film festival in Milwaukee. The three-day event takes place Sept. 11-13 and boasts 44 films from around the globe.

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Milwaukee Film gets a big gift and "No God No Master" fires up at Pabst brewery


Published Aug. 3, 2009 at 10:05 a.m.


Milwaukee Film announced today that MLB commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig and his wife Sue will give a $200,000 gift for the 2009 and 2010 Milwaukee Film Festivals. In other news, "No God No Master" filming is set to fire up today at the old Pabst brewery.

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Add an outdoor flick to your Friday night fish fry


Published July 9, 2009 at 2:34 p.m.


There's your basic dinner and a movie date, and then there's dinner and a movie done Milwaukee style. And trust us, the City of Festival's take on this old classic combo is guaranteed to be more fun than someone else's night out at Applebee's and the budget cinema. Welcome to the new Fish Fry and a Flick series.

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Milwaukee tapped for filming of "No God, No Master"


Published July 8, 2009 at 12:15 p.m.


Strata Productions, Inc., Sacco & Vanzetti, LLC and NGNM, Inc., are in Milwaukee scouting locations in the Third Ward and other locations and rounding up extras for its feature film, "No God, No Master," starring Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee David Strathairn.

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