If you've been feeling claustrophobic from spending too much time in a dark movie theater enjoying the 2010 Milwaukee Film Festival, you're ready to share in the experience of Ryan Reynolds trapped inside a box for 90 minutes in the big movie closing out the 11-day event: "Buried."
"Buried" plays tonight at 7 p.m. at all three film festival venues: The Oriental Theatre, Mequon's North Shore Cinema and New Berlin's Ridge Cinema.
There's already talk of Reynolds being an Oscar contender for his performance. Here's the trailer:
It's a fitting way to end the film festival that began Sept. 23 with another pair of possible Oscar winners -- Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling -- in "Blue Valentine."
There's also another chance to see Tony Shalhoub's "Feed the Fish," at 4:45 p.m. at the Oriental. But Shalhoub won't be on hand, he's back home in Green Bay for the Packers game, and to see his movie, filmed in Door County, getting promoted on the Lambeau Field jumbotron.
Here's the trailer for "Feed the Fish":
Tim Cuprisin is the media columnist for OnMilwaukee.com. He's been a journalist for 30 years, starting in 1979 as a police reporter at the old City News Bureau of Chicago, a legendary wire service that's the reputed source of the journalistic maxim "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." He spent a couple years in the mean streets of his native Chicago, and then moved on to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA Today, before coming to the Milwaukee Journal in 1986.
A general assignment reporter, Cuprisin traveled Eastern Europe on several projects, starting with a look at Poland after five years of martial law, and a tour of six countries in the region after the Berlin Wall opened and Communism fell. He spent six weeks traversing the lands of the former Yugoslavia in 1994, linking Milwaukee Serbs, Croats and Bosnians with their war-torn homeland.
In the fall of 1994, a lifetime of serious television viewing earned him a daily column in the Milwaukee Journal (and, later the Journal Sentinel) focusing on TV and radio. For 15 years, he has chronicled the changes rocking broadcasting, both nationally and in Milwaukee, an effort he continues at OnMilwaukee.com.
When he's not watching TV, Cuprisin enjoys tending to his vegetable garden in the backyard of his home in Whitefish Bay, cooking and traveling.
