C-U Blogfidential

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: When projects pop up from nowhere, we simply must share! Behold the covers to the full-sized and mini editions of The Popcorn Farm, a new low-budget literary magazine launched in Springfield, Illinois.

Select movie listings for March 7-13, 2014 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond!

Mr. JaPan goes flashbacking again as he prepares for the “Cut & Paste” ‘zine culture symposium at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during which he will participate as panelist, commentator, and cut-and-paste fiend. Hand him that glue, quick!

In the first of several consecutive posts wherein your humble editor pulls a Mr. Peabody and goes back in time to facilitate education, he introduces college-era friend Scott Jenkins and the Syfy special CARVERS airing March 4, 2014, on which Jenkins served as producer!

Select movie listings for February 28-March 6, 2014 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Includes a panel appearance by your humble editor!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Melodic with shades of melancholy, “Still” is the most recent song by Megan Johns and Moonwish to receive the music video treatment.

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Lucky dearest readers, you get two Images of the Week this week! Here’s the first, a cover reveal for the most recent DVD release from Dreamscape Cinema of Champaign, MY DOG THE SPACE TRAVELER!

For deep thought on class issues and contemporary film, visit the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Champaign later tonight, Monday, February 24, 2014, for an appearance by socialist movie critic and “The Sky Between the Leaves” author David Walsh.

Is pest control worth the pesticide we add to the growing produce we eventually harvest and eat? The Insect Fear Film Festival asks this and other related questions tonight, Saturday, February 22, 2014, beginning at 7 p.m.!

Select movie listings for February 21-27, 2014 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Includes deadlines & call for movie extras!

Select movie listings for February 14-20, 2014 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Includes call for movie extras!

Can we see a show of hands? You can still count the number of New Art Film Festivals on that hand as the fifth edition approaches on Sunday, April 13, 2014, at the Art Theater Co-op in Champaign, IL! Start entering those films now!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: Does your child have great imagination? Can she or he put it into words? Then, she or he might have fun writing a short film script for the 2014 Pens to Lens competition sponsored by the Champaign-Urbana Film Society!

Select movie listings for February 7-13, 2014 in Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond! Includes local film auditions!

From the “Images of the Week” Dept.: The Elvis Brothers never *really* left the building, as C-U Blogfidential has discovered! Dig on these vintage Elvis Bros. videos, one of which features the former Cinema Theater of Urbana as a backdrop.