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Local Professor Perry Kivolowitz Just Won an Academy Award for His ‘SilhouetteFX’ Software

Natallie St. OngeFebruary 22, 2019

And the Academy Award goes to… ...

The CineLatino Film Festival is Getting a Major Expansion This Year

Georgia PabstFebruary 22, 2019

The third annual CineLatino film festival will branch out to three Marcus movie theaters this year and show a lineup of 15 films in Spanish and English, along with an array of activities....

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Review: Midwestern-made ‘Palace’ Film is ‘High Maintenance’ with Hoosiers

Karisa LangloFebruary 21, 2019

The slice-of-life Midwestern film makes its Milwaukee debut Friday, Feb. 22, at Nō Studios....

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Director John Ridley Parlayed his 2012 Oscar Win into Nō Studios

Zach BrookeJanuary 25, 2019

When John Ridley won an Oscar for his screenplay of '12 Years a Slave', his family cheered him on. Now they’re working together to help Nō Studios foster a new crop of creative talent in our city....

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Profile: Meet Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright

Lindsey AndersonDecember 31, 2018

With his play Junk up and running at the Rep, Pulitzer Prize winner AYAD AKHTAR reflects on his Milwaukee roots....

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Making a Mediocrity: The Story of ‘Making a Murderer Part 2’

Brittany BookbinderDecember 14, 2018

The second season of the Netflix original true-crime documentary is even less satisfying than the first....

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8 Milwaukeeans Who Have Gotten the Hollywood Treatment

Matthew PriggeNovember 10, 2018

A handful of Milwaukee's own have appeared as characters in films and television. ...

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Review: ‘Invisible Lines’ Deserves to be Seen More Widely

Tom TolanOctober 30, 2018

It's no longer screening at the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival, but there may be other opportunities to see it....

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Review: ‘Ava’ Credibly Affects Coming of Age Amid Impending Blindness

Karisa LangloOctober 26, 2018

The French film, part of the Competition programming at the 2018 Milwaukee Film Festival, is in the running for the $10,000 Herzfeld Competition Award....

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