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    ‘Billie’ Offers A Unique Portrait Of Lady Day – dCFF20

    June 13, 2020

    “Billie Holiday sang only truth. She knew nothing else,” states fellow singer and friend Sylvia Syms of the late Lady Day (1915-1959) near the beginning of Billie, a new documentary from James Erskine (The Battle Of The Sexes, The Ice King), available now through Sunday via deadCenter’s…

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    Shifter Audio Diary #5 – A deadCenter Homecoming – dCFF20

    June 11, 2020
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    It’s been four years since Planet Thunder Productions, writer/director Jacob Leighton Burns and producer Zachary Burns won deadCenter’s Best Oklahoma Narrative Feature Film in 2016. After next taking home the first-place prize from the 48-hour…

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    Shifter Audio Diary #4 – The World Premiere

    March 5, 2020
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    After more than a year and a half of fundraising, pre-production, filming and, post-production VFX, The Cinematropolis co-founders Jacob Leighton Burns and Zachary Burns are premiering their new time-travel body horror film, Shifter, at the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival in San Jose, California on Friday,…

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    Oscars 2020 Predictions – The Cinematic Schematic

    February 6, 2020
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    After a long hiatus, The Cinematic Schematic returns for a special episode to give listeners, cinephiles and people hoping to be impressive at this Sunday night’s 92nd Academy Awards watch parties everything they need to build a semi-accurate-ish Oscar ballot. Tune in to the conversation to…

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    The Most Beloved Films of the 2010s – Day 4: From Around the Web

    December 31, 2019
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    In the final part of our four-part series, we spoke with writers, podcasters and personalities from around the web about their most beloved films of the 2010s.

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    The Most Beloved Films of the 2010s – Day 3: deadCenter Film Festival Staff

    December 30, 2019
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    In part three of our four-part series, we spoke with staff members of Oklahoma's largest film festival, the deadCenter Film Festival, about their most beloved films of the 2010s.

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    The Most Beloved Films of the 2010s – Day 2: Oklahoma Film Critics

    December 27, 2019
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    In part two of our four-part series, we spoke with a members of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle about their most beloved films of the 2010s.

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    The Most Beloved Films of the 2010s – Day 1: Filmmaker Picks

    December 26, 2019
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    In part one of our four-part series, we spoke with a handful of filmmakers, largely from Oklahoma, about their most beloved films of the 2010s.

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    Hobbs and Shaw & The Farewell – The Cinematic Schematic Review

    August 29, 2019
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    The Cinematic Schematic returns in our August edition to give a spoiler-free review of two of the month’s biggest releases, Hobbs and Shaw, and Lulu Wang’s The Farewell.

    With the summer winding down, we take a look at the final big-budget blockbuster of…

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    Luz Is a Subversive and Wonderful Micro-budget Horror Film

    August 12, 2019
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    There have been numerous stellar debut features in the realm of horror over the last several years, including Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook, Robert Eggers’s The Witch, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, and Ari Aster’s Hereditary, just to name a handful. Now we can add Tilman Singer’s Luz…

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