By DUANE DUDEK Diane Bacha has been named executive director of Milwaukee Film, a recently formed group that intends to bring a new film festival to Milwaukee. Bacha has been a journalist and executive at Journal Communications since 1994.

By DUANE DUDEK People often are disappointed in, and rarely recognize, the books they love when they are made into movies. Reading is a private experience and films are a shared experience.

By DUANE DUDEK As if times weren't already scary enough -- here come the Martians. Forget the World Series. The real October classic is "The War of the Worlds," the H.G.

By DUANE DUDEK And on the seventh day, Bill Maher worked the room. Proving there is no day of rest for the wicked, Maher spent a recent Sunday promoting his new documentary "Religulous," at the Toronto International Film Festival.

By DUANE DUDEK Kenosha native Jim Rygiel went to New Zealand, and all he came home with were three Oscars for the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Well, that and the helmet of a Rohan royal guard.