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Cinematropolis Podcast Featured The Cinematic Schematic
‘Street Fighter’ Is a Big, Silly, Confused 90s Throwback
October 21, 2026

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‘Wildwood’ Is the Film LAIKA Was Built to Make
October 20, 2026

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‘You Can See Everything’ Is the Documentary of the Decade
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    Postal Is Bloody Good Fun – deadCenter 2019 [Interview]

    June 13, 2019

    Postal is kind of hard to talk about without spoiling. But let’s start here — it’s great.

    The film is a black comedy that purports to be about the true story of Phillip Tress (Michael Shenefelt), a Florida man who goes off…

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    deadCenter’s “After Dark” Shorts Block Offered More Delightfully Disturbing Weirdness

    June 11, 2019
    After Dark

    The good folks behind Oklahoma City’s 19th annual deadCenter Film Festival know how to curate a stellar round-up of short films, and their “After Dark” collection this year was no exception, offering up nine films that embrace the strange, the surreal, and the subversive. 

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    The Bygone Is a Neo-Western that Aims High – deadCenter 2019

    June 10, 2019
    Bygone

    The Bygone, a feature film that had its world premiere at the 2019 deadCenter film festival on June 8, has a lot going for it.

    It’s a local production, shot in Oklahoma in late 2017.

    It…

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    deadCenter 2019 Essays Featured

    Unparalleled Poignance Flourishes in deadCenter’s Unheard Voices Shorts

    June 10, 2019
    Grace from deadCenter 2019 Unheard Voices Shorts

    Murmurs often contain the most moving words.

    Illuminating the discourse of the marginalized and forgotten has become a tradition for deadCenter’s Unheard Voices Shorts. 2019’s festival seems to cultivate the…

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    deadCenter 2019 Featured Film Festivals

    Home with a View of the Monster is Both a Homecoming for Its Characters and Its Filmmakers, Cast

    June 9, 2019
    Home With a View from of the Monster

    Home With A View Of The Monster, the first feature film from twin brothers Alex and Todd Greenlee, made its debut before a nearly-packed house in the Devon Energy Theater at Harkins Bricktown, screening as part of the 2019 deadCenter Film Festival. Described by…

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    deadCenter 2019 Essays Featured

    Come as You Are Triumphantly Celebrates the Human Experience – deadCenter 2019

    June 8, 2019
    Still from Richard Wong's Come as You Are, recipient of deadCenter 2019's Special Jury Price

    Sex is not exclusive to the able.

    In 2011, Geoffrey Enthoven’s Hasta la Vista dramatized the journey of Asta…

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    deadCenter 2019 Featured Film Festivals

    Creators Speak from the Heart in deadCenter’s Love, Sex, and Death Shorts

    June 8, 2019
    Love, Sex, and Death Shorts

    In deadCenter 2019’s Love, Sex, and Death Shorts block, creative filmmakers explore relationships in refreshing, fun ways, with female voices and performers especially given chances to shine.

    The program opens with Stepdaddy, a snappy comedic piece directed by Lisa Steen and…

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    deadCenter 2019 Essays Featured

    Words from a Bear Invites Viewers into an Intimate Look at Momaday – deadCenter 2019

    June 6, 2019
    Poster image of Words From A Bear by by Jeffrey Palmer, an official selection of the Documentary Premieres program at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

    Some documentaries study their subjects remotely, like a scientist examining the matter in a microscope, while others engage in an intimate conversation not only with those interviewed but also with the audience. Words From a Bear, a new feature from relative newcomer

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    Arrows of Outrageous Fortune – Mickey Reece and Alex Sanchez deadCenter 2019 Interview

    June 5, 2019
    Arrows of Outrageous Fortune
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    The deadCenter 2019 film festival has finally arrived and we are kicking off our coverage with a filmmaker interview on one of the festival’s most anticipated curiosities.

    Award-winning independent Oklahoma filmmaker Mickey Reece rejoins The Cinematic Schematic to talk about his new movie Arrows of Outrageous…

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    Godzilla’s Journey From Cautionary Tale To World Defender

    May 31, 2019
    Godzilla

    Of all the giants of cinema—King Kong, Mighty Joe Young, the T-Rex from Jurassic Park, etc.—none have had as much of a varied and even strange journey as Godzilla, and none have quite matched his status as a world-renowned cultural icon. In his latest screen appearance,…

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