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    Mama Bears Makes the Case for Empathy Toward LGBTQ Communities – dCFF22

    June 8, 2022
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    Today we continue our exclusive deadCenter 2022 coverage with a look at this year’s deadCenter opening night film from director Daresha Kyi, Mama Bears. Kyi sits down with us on The Cinematic Schematic to talk about how she first learned about the Mama Bears organization…

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    The Seeds of Greenwood Tells Inspiring Stories of Fellows Program – dCFF22

    June 6, 2022
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    How do you raise a new generation to overcome more than a hundred years of setbacks?

    The Cinematic Schematic continues our exclusive deadCenter 2022 coverage with a look at another tried and true festival tradition, a public OKC Thunder Films screening….

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    Out of Exile Brings the Big Screen Crime Thrills to deadCenter – dCFF22

    June 5, 2022
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    Bank heists. Family character drama. Twisted morality. If you like to see any of these elements at the movies, writer/director Kyle Kauwika Harris’s new film premiering at this year’s deadCenter Film Festival, Out of Exile, is a must-see. It’s a “one last job” crime thriller complete…

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    The Battle of Honey Springs is deadCenter’s Historical War Movie – dCFF22

    June 4, 2022
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    In this exclusive deadCenter 2022 interview, we sit down with writer/director Bryan Beasley to discuss his new film and the festival’s war movie this year, The Battle of Honey Springs. Beasley talks about how the battle had direct impacts on the US Civil War and helped…

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    The Official 2022 deadCenter Film Festival Sneak Peek

    June 1, 2022
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    Today kicks off our exclusive coverage of the 2022 deadCenter Film Festival! To help listeners prepare for what to expect, The Cinematic Schematic is joined by the deadCenter director of operations+festival, Miranda Patton, and the deadCenter director of programming, Sara Thompson, to discuss this year’s…

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    Alex Garland And Toxic Masculinity, From ’28 Days Later’ To ‘Men’

    May 23, 2022
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    Men – the mystifying 2022 film from writer-director Alex Garland and studio A24 – brings to mind the social media hashtag #YesAllWomen, which arose in conjunction with the #MeToo movement and ushered into the online public discourse story after story of women suffering in myriad ways under…

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    2022 deadCenter Film Festival: What to Watch and How To Attend

    May 8, 2022
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    The 2022 deadCenter Film Festival has released its full lineup of movies for this year’s event and it includes a robust lineup of short films, documentaries, and Oklahoma feature films. This year’s fully in-person festival kicks off on Thursday, June 9th at 6 PM CST with…

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    The Northman Weaves a Tapestry of Unending Violence

    April 28, 2022
    Alexander Skarsgard as Amleth in The Northman from Robert Eggers

    From 2015’s The Witch and his 2019 follow-up, The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers reminds us that tradition and identity rarely exist in harmony, even across centuries. With The Northman, the director applies…

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    The Northman – The Cinematic Schematic Review

    April 20, 2022
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    Following his one-two punch in elevated psychological horror with The Witch(2016) and The Lighthouse(2019), up-and-coming indie auteur Robert Eggers is back with a new Norse epic unlike any we’ve seen on the big screen in recent years, The Northman. In the newest episode of The Cinematic…

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    Everything Everywhere All At Once – The Cinematic Schematic Review

    April 14, 2022
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    In today’s episode of The Cinematic Schematic, we dive deep into The Daniels (that’s
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) wildly ambitious multiverse(move over Dr. Strange) to explore themes of love, balance, regret, and so much more through some of the most bizarre filmmaking you’ve…

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