The 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival may have finished rolling its end credits last week, but if you're like me – and I'm so sorry if you are – you're probably just now catching up on the sleep, meals and news stories you missed while spending 15 days hopping around the festival's mind-boggling 282 selected films (not even including the keynote speakers, filmmaker events and more).
I managed to hit a total of 23 films this year. I know: WEAK. But luckily for me, and all the other Milwaukee Film junkies out there looking back wistfully at the screenings we missed (*looks back at "Nuts!" with a single tear falling down cheek*), most festival movies don't solely exist for a few screenings during the last week of September and the first week of October. Some are in theaters (or soon to be on their way, hopefully). Others are sitting right on your laptop or TV at home, just waiting for you.
While watching these features on the big screen is always the optimal route, here are the best ways to catch up (legally; none of that illegal pirated poppycock) with some of the Milwaukee Film Festival movies you may have missed this year.
(A quick tip before we begin: With Halloween right around the corner, the Iranian-set horror flick "Under the Shadow" – on this list below – would make a mighty fine scary movie selection some dark and spooky night this month. Thank me later.)
- "All the President's Men"
Currently available for rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and Time Warner Cable VOD services. Also available on DVD.
- "Ants on a Shrimp"
Currently available for rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and most television VOD services. Also available on DVD beginning on Nov. 29.
- "Beauty and the Beast"
Currently available for rent on iTunes and Google Play. Also available on DVD.
- "Beware the Slenderman"
Projected for a 2017 release date.
- "Blue Velvet"
Currently available to stream for Showtime subscribers, as well as to rent on iTunes, Amazon Video and Google Play. Also available on DVD.
- "Can You Dig This"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and DirecTV VOD services. The UWM Union Cinema will also host a screening of the film on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m.
- "Carmin Tropical"
Currently available to rent on YouTube and some television VOD services.
- "City of Gold"
Currently available to stream on Hulu, as well as to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and most television VOD services. Also available on DVD.
- "Embers"
Currently available to rent on YouTube, iTunes, Amazon Video and Google Play.
- "Fastball"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video and Google Play. Also available on DVD.
- "The Fits"
Currently available to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and most television VOD services. Also available on DVD.
- "Five Nights in Maine"
Currently available for rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and most television VOD services. Also available on DVD beginning Nov. 8.
- "Free to Run"
Available on DVD beginning on Nov. 1.
- "Home Care"
Currently available to rent on iTunes.
- "Hooligan Sparrow"
Available on DVD beginning Dec. 13.
- "How to Tell You're A Douchebag"
Currently available for rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and Time Warner Cable VOD services.
- "Jim: The James Foley Story"
Currently available to stream on HBO GO/NOW, as well as to rent on iTunes, Amazon Video and Google Play. Also available on DVD.
- "Keepers of the Game"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on iTunes.
- "Kings of Nowhere"
Currently available to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video and Google Play.
- "Klown Forever"
Currently available to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video and Google Play. Also available on DVD beginning Dec. 13.
- "The Land"
Currently available to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and most television VOD services. Also available on DVD beginning on Nov. 22.
- "Life, Animated"
Currently available for rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and most television VOD services. Also available on DVD.
- "Little Boxes"
While not currently available, Netflix has purchased the distribution rights to the film.
- "The Love Witch"
While not currently available, "The Love Witch" is set for theatrical release on Nov. 11.
- "Maya Angelou And Still I Rise"
While not currently available, "Maya Angelou And Still I Rise" is set for a likely limited theatrical release on Oct. 14.
- "Men & Chicken"
Currently available to stream on Amazon Prime, as well as to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video and Google Play. Also available on DVD beginning Oct. 25.
- "Metropolis"
Currently available to stream on Hulu and Fandor, as well as to rent on YouTube, Amazon Video and Google Play. Also available on DVD.
- "Morris From America"
Currently available for rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and most television VOD services. Also available on DVD beginning Nov. 8.
- "Mountains May Depart"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and iTunes. Also available on DVD.
- "My King"
The UWM Union Cinema will host two screenings of the film on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 5 at 5 p.m.
- "Neither Heaven Nor Earth"
Available on DVD beginning Dec. 6.
- "Nuts!"
Available to stream on Amazon Prime, as well as to rent on iTunes, You Tube, Amazon Video and Google Play.
- "Oddball"
Available on DVD beginning Dec. 6.
- "Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict"
Currently available to stream on Amazon Prime, as well as to rent on iTunes and Amazon Video. Also available on DVD beginning Oct. 25.
- "Phantom Boy"
Available on DVD beginning Nov. 8.
- "Presenting Princess Shaw"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play and YouTube. Also available on DVD.
- "Queen of Katwe"
Currently playing in most movie theaters.
- "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
Currently available to rent on iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, YouTube and some television VOD services. Also available on DVD.
- "Rams"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video and Google Play. Also available on DVD.
- "Right Now, Wrong Then"
Currently available to stream on Fandor.
- "Stop Making Sense"
Currently available to stream on Amazon Prime, as well as to rent on YouTube, Amazon Video and Google Play. Also available on DVD.
- "Sweet Bean"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on YouTube, Amazon Video, iTunes and Google Play. Also available on DVD.
- "Tale of Tales"
Currently available to rent on YouTube, Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play and most television VOD services. Also available on DVD.
- "Umrika"
Currently available to stream on Netflix.
- "Under the Shadow"
Currently available to rent on YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play and most television VOD services. Also available to rent on iTunes beginning Jan. 10.
- "Untouchable"
The UWM Union Cinema will host a screening of the film on Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.
- "Viva"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on Amazon Video, YouTube, iTunes and Google Play.
- "When We Were Kings"
Currently available on DVD.
- "Women He's Undressed"
Currently available to stream on Netflix, as well as to rent on iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video and Google Play.
As much as it is a gigantic cliché to say that one has always had a passion for film, Matt Mueller has always had a passion for film. Whether it was bringing in the latest movie reviews for his first grade show-and-tell or writing film reviews for the St. Norbert College Times as a high school student, Matt is way too obsessed with movies for his own good.
When he's not writing about the latest blockbuster or talking much too glowingly about "Piranha 3D," Matt can probably be found watching literally any sport (minus cricket) or working at - get this - a local movie theater. Or watching a movie. Yeah, he's probably watching a movie.