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‘Street Fighter’ Is a Big, Silly, Confused 90s Throwback
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‘You Can See Everything’ Is the Documentary of the Decade
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    ‘GetAWAY’ Knows The Slasher Genre Well Without Digging Too Deep – dCFF20

    June 15, 2020
    GetAWAY

    With a subgenre like the slasher, it’s especially hard to do anything new, one because just about every plot twist under the sun has been done already, and two, because several of the subgenre’s hallmarks are, for lack of a better term, not very “woke.” Many of…

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    Tensions Flare in ‘Okie Shorts Mix Tape Vol. 2’ – dCFF20

    June 14, 2020
    Okie Mix Tape

    Most folks don’t acknowledge things unless they’re forced to. 

    The batch of Oklahoman short films featured in deadCenter 2020’s Okie Shorts Mix-Tape Vol. 2 exchanges the slow-burn of its sister collection with high-octane intensity. Tension,…

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    Birdie Is a Faith-based Movie with Heart – dCFF20

    June 14, 2020
    Birdie

    In Birdie, Luke Bellamy (LaRonn Marzett) is a recently released convict who returns to his small Oklahoma hometown to find a new beginning. 

    In between a fruitless job search, check-ins with his parole officer and AA meetings, he tries desperately to reconnect with…

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    Cheryl McDonough Brings the Spirit of Activism to Oklahoma with ‘Parkland Rising’ Documentary – dCFF20

    June 14, 2020
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    Homegrown Spirit Thrives in ‘Okie Shorts Mix Tape Vol. 1’ – dCFF20

    June 14, 2020
    Okie Shorts Mix Tape

    The most intimate stories are often those closest to home. 

    Oklahoma’s homegrown short films return to the deadCenter Film Festival with Okie Shorts Mix Tape. Divided across two volumes, the first offers an intense glimpse into…

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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
    Shifter
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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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