C-U Blogfidential

Select movie listings for November 1-7, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field(s of Gold) Report! Did you take a peek at the (25th anniversary) Image of the week? And, have you memorized the (25th Anniversary) Confidential Almanac for today?

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 October 18-24, 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 Confidential Almanac for today?

Select movie listings for May 31-June 6, 2024 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to peruse this week’s Field Report!

The monster invasion of the Midwest never stops and indie groups like Acrostar Films, Moonlight Films, and Cheevies Film Productions are more than happy to keep ’em coming. How have they scared us lately?

For our first article since July – we know, scary, right? – we suggest that you take a look at a new horror media streaming site called Scareplex, founded in downstate Illinois by and for indies.

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?

At one time, four indie television shows were being worked on simultaneously in downstate Illinois. Only PEORIA has persisted with little interruption. What happened to the rest? These are their stories.

Here’s a CUBlog sequel you didn’t see coming! Whether you read or appreciated the original, our revised link-list of Tubi fare illustrating the histories of Ebertfest and Confidential will thrill you.

Shatterglass Films of Champaign will have its first in-house feature film, REVEALER, distributed across America on DVD on November 15, 2022, through RLJE Films and Shudder. Success!

Student film showcases have bloomed in downstate Illinois! We point you toward one virtual and two physical events based at Millikin U. in Decatur and U. Illinois in Urbana. Are u ready to attend?

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.

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.

A made-in-southern Illinois micro-budget indie, UNLISTED OWNER, has come back on the market as DIRECTORS CUT. We chat with its realtor, young and upcoming genre filmmaker Jed Brian.

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!