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Recommended Film Screenings

Wis-Kino Fall Kabaret

Wis-Kino is a local collective of DIY short-film fetishists, and its semi-annual Kabaret events tend to be the most fun way to get introduced. At the kickoff event on Friday evening, Kino will welcome short films running five minutes or ...
Cinematheque: Polish Film Festival

Though its lineup is small—only five films this year—the annual Polish Film Festival makes a valiant attempt to survey the contemporary cinema of a country that might otherwise get ignored in Madison's screening rooms and theaters. The ...
International Cinema: Days Of Darkness

Trapped in a comfortable hell that might as well come complete with a forced regimen of sedatives, the homely civil servant (Marc Labreche) of Denys Arcand's 2007 black comedy Days Of Darkness immerses himself more and more deeply into ...
Midnight Movies: Oldboy

If revenge is a dish best served cold, then Park Chan-wook’s deliriously unhinged Oldboy is an unthawed Hungry Man TV dinner. The film stars the intense Choi Min-sik as an ordinary Seoul businessman who wakes up from a drunken ...
Reel To Reel Cinema: Billy The Kid

In the 2007 documentary Billy The Kid, director Jennifer Venditti zips herself into the world of a Maine teenager who regards himself as "just different in the mind." The sweet, hyper-eyed Billy isn't necessarily nuts, but helplessly abuzz with ...
Brew And View: Beer Wars + Pale Young Gentlemen

A film that's sure to have locals hooting "Amen!" time and again as the small guys come out looking good, the recent documentary Beer Wars charts the competition behemoths like Anheuser-Busch face from each other and craft brewers like ...

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Release Date A-Z Editor Grade User Grade

1	2	3	4	5
Thomas & Friends: Splish, Splash, Splosh	-	-		1257552000
Old Dogs	-	-		1239321600
Ninja Assassin	-	-		1232064000
The Box	B	C+	380	0
Amelia	D	D-	166	0
Astro Boy	C-	C	0	0
Lorna’s Silence	B+	-	31	0
Zombieland	B+	B+	270	0
The Twilight Saga: New Moon	C-	D-	443	0
An Education	A-	B	95	0
A Serious Man	A-	A-	366	0
Couples Retreat	D+	D	344	0
Law Abiding Citizen	D	D	238	0
Pirate Radio	C-	C-	213	0
A Christmas Carol	C	D-	266	0
The Blind Side	D	D-	227	0
Coco Before Chanel	C	B-	33	0
The Fourth Kind	C-	D	183	0
The Men Who Stare At Goats	B-	B-	210	0
This Is It	C+	C+	312	0
Paranormal Activity	B+	B-	263	0
Disney's A Christmas Carol In Disney Digital 3D	C	-	266	0
Fantastic Mr. Fox	B	B+	0	0
Planet 51	C	-	68	0
2012	D	D+	534	0
Where The Wild Things Are	A-	B+	486	0

Film features

feature The real culprits of the Polish Film Festival: An abridged preview

At this weekend's short fest, there's more troubling the Poles than their Red past.

by Scott Gordon

November 17, 2009 | 12:00am -
feature 'Tis the season for theater, books, and carnivorous plants: a Madison holiday survival guide

Here are a few ways to hide from your family during the holidays while getting a bonus shot of culture.

by Jason Albert

November 12, 2009 | 12:00am -
Just Announced Found Footage Festival to return to Madison on Dec. 12

The fest brings back more incredibly, unintentionally funny relics from VHS-land in an all-new show.

by Scott Gordon

November 10, 2009 | 3:55pm -
Just Announced Sundance Cinemas to screen WFF doc The Good Solider on Nov. 11

This Wisconsin Film Festival documentary with Madison ties is a movie that's both hard to watch and hard to forget.

by A.V. Club Staff

November 9, 2009 | 12:30pm -