C-U Blogfidential

THE INFORMANT! proves not to be the most heard on DVD, Blu-ray, and VOD in its first week of availability, although it does not stop C-U Blogfidential from mildly doting on featured actress Melanie Lynskey.

Yes, it is time. Please help us get C-U Confidential back on the streets where it belongs as we segue into the fifth year of our Unofficial Five-Year Plan for Indie Film Domination in Our Backyard.

Year 5 may beget the trial by fire C-U Blogfidential must face in order for its long-term worth to be gauged.

We finally hear the clik-clak of deadly STILETTOS courtesy of Dreamscape Cinema of Champaign, beginning with an on-line trailer that recently appeared without warning.

A smattering of singular movie shows bring a little variety to area screens this weekend, including a locally-produced featurette, a Bollywood thriller, Oscar-nominated shorts, and two creature features.

Yes, there’s more than enough material available to fill up a second C-U Confidential Local Movie Show this coming April at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign. Silly naysayers.

Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at the M2 Building in downtown Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.

It’s Unofficial Litmus Test Week at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign, IL, where new operator Sanford Hess will begin testing the threshold of how creative his programming choices can get and still fly with his patrons.

Now that we know the hoped-for “sleeper” success of THE INFORMANT! turned out to be one extended yawner, we turn from the film craft to the box office and consider what exactly went wrong.

Decatur area native and former Champaign resident Alaric Rocha returns downstate this weekend to shoot his latest short film, WINTER IN LOUISIANA.

The IMC Film Festival returns to celebrate the art of cinematography later this week during February 5-7, 2010, at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center in the old Post Office building in downtown Urbana, IL.

It’s almost time to relive the conspiracy again and again in the comfort of your own home, as Warner Home Video plans to release THE INFORMANT! on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.

Better late than never, Megan Johns pulls into the C-U Blogfidential station with her music video “The Beat was Burnt,” produced by Matt HarsH and Sam Ambler.

The next meeting of Illini Film & Video will be on Monday, January 25, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. in Room 104 of the UIUC English Building on the Main Quad.

PopTent.net and M&M Mars decided to share the wealth with Joe Taylor of Fairmount, Bill Kephart of Tolono, and Thomas Nicol of Urbana, who won $5,000 for their Snickers spec spot, “Share the Love.”