Nationwide consensus is that small businesses and organizations will get raked over the coals before the pandemic is over. We look at how a first-run, mixed-use, and former movie theater are doing.
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Select movie listings for June 26-July 2, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!
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Self-restriction has been lifted as your humble editor rockets out the gate with fresh words on important topics and miscellany as well as dear old Dad. He might mention a few filmy things on top of that.
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Select movie listings for June 19-25, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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Select movie listings for June 12-18, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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Once upon a time, next to no one in our society knew how to make movies. Traveling impresarios of a century ago made sure to tease the average citizen with the possibilities in programs like ‘Making Movies.’
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Select movie listings for June 5-11, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo! Also, have you memorized the Confidential Almanac for today?
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Select movie listings for May 29-June 4, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!
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University of Illinois students a generation apart do their on-camera best to convince viewers that campus spirits drift among us. Their existence somewhat haunts your humble editor to this day.
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Two decades have passed since Mike Trippiedi cut loose the slasher spoof BUCKY McSNEAD on Champaign-Urbana. How will the rest of Illinois fare when THE TRUE TALE OF OLE SPLITFOOT is finally told?
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The Central Illinois Film Commission wants to tell you about how filmmakers make it happen in downstate Illinois. Interested in inside knowledge? There’s a Zoom event on Saturday afternoon for that!
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Select movie listings for May 22-28, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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The unused Lincoln Square Theatre in downtown Decatur, Illinois, is showing signs of disrepair on its exterior. Residents and officials may be at a tipping point in deciding the fate of the venue.
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Select movie listings for May 15-21, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!
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Once again, the archives at MFHQ trigger your humble editor into remembering times of a different creative energy. Herein we have evidence of his stab at fashioning attire for a lost short film project.
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