Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a documentary focused on Japan’s sushi restaurateur Sukiyabashi Jiro, exposes themes of resilience and rebellion that run wild in the world of top-shelf cuisine – not just historically but biographically.

Fringe speaks with Milwaukee Underground Film Festival organizer, Morgan “Moe” McPhearson

UWM’s annual global cinema conference

Bully, the new documentary from Lee Hirsch, doesn’t instill hope so much as it stews in its own hopelessness – the result of its inability to dig beneath the surface.

Fringe section staffers highlight the marquee titles showing at the UWM Union Theatre every week.

Fringe section staffers highlight the marquee titles showing at the UWM Union Theatre every week.

Despite existing mostly as a fast-moving history lesson, film historian Jenni Olson’s presentation “We Who Are Sexy: The Whirlwind History of Transgender Images in Cinema” was nonetheless remarkably interesting, and often tremendously deep.

Fringe section staffers highlight the marquee titles showing at
the UWM Union Theatre every week.

Aaron Rottinghaus’ debut feature, Apart, is loaded with odes to other thrillers, but fails to thrill itself.

Idiocy and fan service derail The Hunger Games