As an aside to a tangent, we vicariously saunter about Mother Murphy’s of Normal, IL, thanks to another student project born at Illinois State University, ANYTHING BUT NORMAL. Take a trip with us!
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Select movie listings for October 9-15, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo, agents!
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In the first part of our limited series on independently-produced dramatic television in central Illinois, we peek at the progress being made by PEORIA creator Michael Mcgruder and his personnel.
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Select movie listings for October 2-8, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo, citizens!
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Select movie listings for September 25-October 1, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the swingin’ MFHQ Memo!
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We delved into the Tubi platform and retrieved intel on movies from both the history of Ebertfest and the fabric of our very being in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Links aplenty now await you!
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Ye Ed is rooting for the film culture of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to rebound from the turbulence of recent years. Not everything will survive, such as the theaters he recently photographed.
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Select movie listings for September 18-24, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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When life hands you lemons, make the best movies possible with limited means! This is the lesson behind the children-led Pens to Lens show that premiered virtually at Facebook on August 15, 2020.
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Our limited series on filmmaking books from the Michael Wiese Productions library continues with ‘John Badham on Directing’ by John Badham, reviewed by Andrew J. Rausch.
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Select movie listings for September 11-17, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!
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Select movie listings for September 4-10, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!
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Select movie listings for August 28-September 3, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!
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Select movie listings for August 21-27, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!
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Select movie listings for August 14-20, 2020 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Don’t forget to read the MFHQ Memo!
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