Calendar: February 6-12, 2026
Our movie and media Calendar appears every Friday/Saturday on C-U Blogfidential and caters to the downstate region anchored by Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA.
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THE BLOGFIDENTIAL TELETYPE | Film News You Can Use, C-U
If you’ve been paying attention to the Calendar over the last few months, apart from reviewing and using the information we bring to you diligently, then you’ve possibly noticed that we’ve scaled down what it offers to you every week. Ye Ed has decided that he’d like to direct more of his research and writing time elsewhere for CUBlog’s sake and regularly has to remind himself – and now, all of you – that the Calendar is a knowing sketch of our film culture in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond. It does not need to be the end-all be-all, in particular since the movie listings can be accessed elsewhere.
The same will now go for our Report. Arguably, a number of times, the stories and anecdotes we work up for your pleasure and enlightenment might have been presented as their own posts on CUBlog and not encumbered your humble editor as much as it has at roughly the same time every week for many months on end. It’s a recurring bottleneck that is mostly invisible to you, dearest readers, but it’s taken a toll and we did have the mind to strike it from the Calendar for good. But, as they say, context is best.
We’ll instead revert to the old “news ticker” format to bring you the notes and links you’ll need to navigate our cinema. In fact, that is the new Calendar philosophy – make it useful and fruitful at a glance for all our friends and neighbors. If there is any heavy lifting to be done with our writing, we’ll offer it in bonus CUBlog posts instead of here. We hope this change-up meets with your approval and, at the least, it will alleviate the secondary bottleneck for your reading ease, avoiding the kind of posts where it seemed to take forever for your wandering eyes and wondering mind to get to the play dates. Let’s see how it goes.
We’ll begin the new format next week and simply point you to the handful of special events happening in the area over the coming days – the Flatlands Dance Film Festival, the Film-Fanatic.club showing of ONE FROM THE HEART: REPRISE, the “Ebertschool” presentation of THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, the Virginia Theatre’s booking of WHAT’S UP, DOC?, and the Chambana Film Society’s special screening of the Oscar-nominated film, THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB, plus a whole string of compelling programs at the Normal Theater. If the cinema du C-U was only this good every week. Cheers.
LOCAL FILMS & EVENTS | Support Your Media Storytellers
@ Gallery Art Bar, Urbana, IL
Film Fanatic Movie Nights* presents ONE FROM THE HEART: REPRISE (2/7, 6 p.m.)
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL
Chambana Film Society* presents THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (2/8, 3 p.m., in Arabic with English sub)
@ Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, UIUC, Urbana, IL
Dance at Illinois presents the 2026 Flatlands Dance Film Festival* (2/6, 7 p.m., free), Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies* presents THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (2/12, 7 p.m., free)
NOW PLAYING | Champaign-Urbana Area
@ AMC Champaign 13, Champaign, IL
DRACULA, THE MOMENT, SOLO MIO, THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3, STRAY KIDS: THE DOMINATE EXPERIENCE (concert film; in Korean with English sub), WHISTLE*, AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, THE HOUSEMAID*, IRON LUNG, MELANIA (documentary), SEND HELP, SHELTER, ZOOTOPIA 2 (animation) (2/6 on), BUFFALO KIDS (animation) (2/6-2/8), MERCY* (2/6-2/8), Fan Faves: ALI* (2/6-2/12) and GLORY* (2/6-2/12), STILL HOPE (2/8, 4 p.m.), CRIME 101 sneak preview w/discussion (2/9, 7 p.m.), AMC “Screen Unseen” (mystery movie) (2/9, 7 p.m.), COLD STORAGE, CRIME 101, GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON’T DIE, GOAT (animation), WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2/12 on) *single screenings daily
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL
SCARLET (animé) (in Japanese with English sub; IMAX), SOLO MIO, STILL HOPE, THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3, 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, HAMNET, THE HOUSEMAID, IRON LUNG, MARTY SUPREME, MERCY, MOSES THE BLACK, NO OTHER CHOICE (in Korean with English sub), PRIMATE, SEND HELP, SHELTER, ZOOTOPIA 2 (animation) (2/6 on), STRAY KIDS: THE DOMINATE EXPERIENCE (concert film; in Korean with English sub; IMAX) (2/6, 2/8-2/11), TIME HOPPERS: THE SILK ROAD (animation) (2/7-2/8, 2 p.m.), CASABLANCA (2/8, 3 & 7 p.m.; 2/11, 2, 4:30 & 7 p.m.), GALE: YELLOW BRICK ROAD (2/11, 7 p.m.), GOAT (animation), WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2/12 on) *single screenings daily
@ Pine Lounge, 1st floor, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL
Illini Union Board presents “Spring 2025 Weekend Films” feat. TRON: ARES (2/6-2/7, 7 p.m.; free w/i-card)
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
The News-Gazette Film Series presents WHAT’S UP, DOC? (2/7, 1 & 7 p.m.)
Events featuring locally produced movies are marked with an asterisk (*). Additional “Now Playing” and “Coming Soon” listings appear after the jump!
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NOW PLAYING | The Cities Beyond
@ AMC Classic 12, Springfield, IL
Springfield Art Association presents Molly Schlich Independent | International Film Series feat. SANTOSH (2/8, 1 & 4 p.m.; 2/10, 7 p.m.)
@ The Fischer Theatre, Danville, IL
“Cartoons & Cereal” feat. THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS (2/7, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., freewill donation), LADY AND THE TRAMP (animation) (2/8, 2 p.m.)
@ The Lorraine Theatre, Hoopeston, IL
SEND HELP (2/6-2/8), WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2/12 on)
@ The Normal Theater, Normal, IL
Community Players Theatre presents “The CPT Concert Revue” (live performance) (2/6-2/8), ISU African American Studies Program presents THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE: 1967-1975 (documentary) w/discussion (2/9, 6:30 p.m., free), MA (2/10), ISU Queer Coalition, etc., present “Fired Up: The American AIDS Crisis on Film” feat. BUDDIES w/discussion (2/11, 7 p.m., free), CASABLANCA (2/12)
@ The Princess Theatre, Leroy, IL
SONG SUNG BLUE (2/6-2/8)
NOW PLAYING | Midwest
For detailed and curated listings of Chicago-area film presentations and related events, please visit the fine folks at Cine-File and subscribe to their definitive “Cine-List” weekly blast. And for northern Illinois industry news, be sure to read Reel Chicago, Screen Magazine, and the Chicago Reader.
COMING SOON | Area-wide Events
2/16
Champaign Movie Makers* meeting
@ Esquire Lounge, Champaign, IL, 7 p.m.
2/28
43rd Insect Fear Film Festival*
@ Foellinger Auditorium, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 7 p.m., free
4/3-4/10
28th annual Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI
4/9-4/12
36th Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago, IL
4/17-4/19
26th Roger Ebert’s Film Festival*
@ The Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
9/7-9/17
44th Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
@ Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema + Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
COMMUNITY & CAMPUS SERIES | Champaign-Urbana area
Chambana Film Society presents “The Savoy Arthouse”
@ Phoenix Savoy 16 + IMAX, Savoy, IL, 3 p.m. unless noted otherwise
“2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films” series: 2/20: Live Action (7 p.m.), 2/21: Animation (7 p.m.), 2/22: Documentary (3 p.m.), 2/27: Animation (7 p.m.), 2/28: Documentary (7 p.m.), and 3/1: Live Action (3 p.m.)
Illini Union Board presents “Spring 2025 Weekend Films”
@ Pine Lounge, 1st floor, Illini Union, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat, free w/i-card
2/13-2/14: REGRETTING YOU; 2/20-2/21: ZOOTOPIA 2; 2/27-2/28: FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2; 3/6-3/7: THE RUNNING MAN; 3/13-3/14: THE HOUSEMAID; 3/27-3/28: WICKED: FOR GOOD; 4/3-4/4: ANACONDA; 4/10-4/11: MERCY; 4/17-4/18: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies events
@ Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, UIUC, Urbana, IL, 7 p.m. (unless noted otherwise)
3/5: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER screening; 3/30: THE WIZ screening
Springfield Art Association presents the 31st annual Molly Schlich Independent | International Film Series
@ AMC Classic Springfield 12, Springfield, IL, 1 & 4 p.m. Sunday + 7 p.m. Tuesday
2/15, 2/17: HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES; 2/22, 2/24: TERRESTRIAL VERSES; 3/1, 3/3: NIGHT CALL; 3/8, 3/10: THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND
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Compiled by Jason Pankoke.
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