Oriental Theatre MKE

09/03/2026

A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing for each other.

Join us this September for Practical Magic 2 arriving at our historic cinema on the 11th: mkefilm.org/practicalmagic2

09/02/2026

Programmer for a day Catherine chose Chinatown, screening 9/12 at 2:45 PM!

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

09/01/2026

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Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski goes to the projectionist’s booth at Milwaukee's Oriental Theater to find out what it takes to show movies on film.

09/01/2026

Presented in partnership with Sculpture Milwaukee and the Bronzeville Center for the Arts. Join us after the screening for a talkback about artist and filmmaker Martine Syms!

It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

The African Desperate arrives 9/10 at 6:30 PM: mkefilm.org/desperate

08/31/2026

"Before Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, there was the SpongeBob Movie. The movie loosely adapts the OG blueprint for all large-scale adventures, Homer's The Odyssey, with SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) and Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke) embarking on an epic quest involving an ice-cream serving Siren and a dreaded Cyclops. They need to recover King Neptune's crown from Shell City before Plankton (Mr. Lawrence) usurps their home, Antinous-style." -SYFY

Join us for Cinema Associate Marlo's The Spongebob Squarepants Movie 9/11 at 6 PM: mkefilm.org/goofygoober

08/30/2026

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a teenage biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by his best friend.

Akira's arrival shattered traditional thinking, creating space for future generations of ground-breaking movies, now newly remastered in 4k, Akira arrives at our historic cinema 9/4: mkefilm.org/akira

08/29/2026

A world-famous orchestra conductor discovers the brother he never knew he had — a school cafeteria worker who plays trombone in a local marching band. Detecting his brother's exceptional musical talent, he takes it upon himself to rectify the injustice of fate. An equally hilarious and affecting crowdpleaser that premiered at Cannes and became a French box office sensation starring Benjamin Lavernhe (My Donkey, My Lover & I) and Pierre Lottin (The Stranger).

The Marching Band from Director Emmanuel Courcol arrives for a limited run starting 9/4: mkefilm.org/marchingband

08/28/2026

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Ryan Coogler's modern masterpiece Sinners screens on 70mm 8/31 & 9/1 at 7 PM: mkefilm.org/sinners

08/28/2026

Things just won't be the same without you, Tim. Tim Curry forever, Rocky Horror for always❤️