C-U Blogfidential

Select movie listings for October 25-31, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report! Did you take a peek at the Images of the week? And, have you memorized the Svenfidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for September 13-19, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Did you take a peek at the Image of the week? And, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?

Durability is one of many things accomplished in Champaign-Urbana by Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, which celebrates 25 years this week with a diverse program and quality one-film-at-a-time presentation as their trademarks.

Several indies filmed in part or whole in downstate Illinois during the last few years are finally emerging, and half of them were not initiated by local producers. How do we fare in our visitors’ fields of vision?

Get outside this summer and enjoy the pleasures of the drive-in theater, whether on National Drive-in Day or any other time they’re showing movies, serving up goodies, and bringing folks together.

We pause to reflect on those who did not get to share their creativity, compassion, and community with the rest of us in 2023, except for in the memories and legacies they’ve left in our care.

Roger Ebert’s Film Festival is set to captivate Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, for Year 23 from April 18-22, 2023. Here are the base details and important resources for you to know.

The late musician and Urbana resident Jay Bennett is the subject of new documentary and record releases, WHERE ARE YOU, JAY BENNETT?, now available nationwide through MVD Entertainment Group.

CUBlog resumes posting just in time for the resuscitation of Roger Ebert’s Film Festival! Year 22 launches later tonight at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, and we have the schedule.

The specters of Illinois urban legends form the basis of a pair of brand-new indie features, LANTERN’S LANE from Vertical Entertainment and BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION from Dark Sky Films.

This has been a very long year. Whether it’s been better or worse than the year before is debatable. Let’s put the soapboxes aside and remember those who are no longer here for 2022.

Gemelli Films of Brookhaven, NY, has taken a liking to downstate Illinois. The first result of this team-up, BAKING UP LOVE, arrived in stores nationwide in November through SP Releasing, Inc.

The creators of UNLISTED OWNER strike again! This time, they stake out real estate in blockchain territory with their original made-for-NFT short film, TRICK NOT TREAT. Purchase the key today!

Trick or treat! Five indie horror flicks originating in or adjacent to the meat-and-potatoes midsection of Illinois make the cut in our new marathon report. Come along for the haywire hayride, hardy souls!

As an aside to a tangent, we vicariously saunter about Mother Murphy’s of Normal, IL, thanks to another student project born at Illinois State University, ANYTHING BUT NORMAL. Take a trip with us!