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

UWM’s annual global cinema conference

Nearly a year after being named the 20th best program in the world by The Hollywood Reporter, UWM’s film department in Peck School of the Arts is seeing a spike in enrollment and interest, while alumni go on to produce nationally recognized works.

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.

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

Bela Tarr’s final film, The Turin Horse, is a masterpiece of modern cinema and will screen all this weekend at the UWM Union Theatre.