It’s not often that a remake, reimagining, reboot, whatever you want to call it of a popular horror franchise lives up to its hype, but when Jordan Peele announced he was co-writing and co-producing a new version of “Candyman,” there wasn’t much question that this one would. This movie definitely feels like it was crafted […]
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Film Review: Mandibles
From Quentin Dupieux, the man who brought us tales of killer tires and misbehaving police officers, comes his new film, Mandibles. This time Dupieux tackles a tale of two men and their oversized housefly companion, a 74-minute madcap journey that’s equal parts laugh-out-loud funny and headscratchingly surreal. Two pals, Jean-Gab and Manu, come across the […]
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Buy deadCenter a drink this summer because it’s finally of legal age.
For its 21st year, a hybrid deadCenter Film Festival will begin June 10 and run through June 20 at various Oklahoma City locations with many screenings available online. “We did the virtual festival last year and that really gave us a great groundwork for what we wanted to do this year. So we knew at […]
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OKG deadCenter Reviews
Alien on Stage Dir. Danielle Kummer and Lucy Harvey This oddball documentary captures an amateur British stage production of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi masterpiece “Alien” which makes it from their small community theater to Leicester Square Theatre in London. Yes, you read that correctly. To make things weirder, the director, the writer, the actress playing Ellen […]
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PRESS RELEASE deadCenter Expands Access and Extends Dates for 2020 Festival
The deadCenter Film Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary from June 11-21, with an extended 10-day schedule, half-price passes and more movies and panels than ever before. Eddie, the definitive documentary about OSU coaching legend Eddie Sutton, leads the slate of 140 films from around the world and across Oklahoma that will premiere during the […]
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PRESS RELEASE Hideaway Pizza Launches Home Film Contest
4/2/2020 update: The deadline has been extended to April 15. Need something fun to do? Put your creative juices to work and submit an entry or two in Hideaway’s Inaugural Home Film Festival! Write a script, grab your cell phones, and get filming! Include Hideaway Pizza somehow in your video (we know you’ve got a […]
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art goes virtual
Since we can’t go to Oklahoma City Museum of Art for the foreseeable future, OKCMOA is bringing the museum to our computers. “There is no replacement for standing in front of a great work of art, spending time in its presence, seeing what the artist saw. Unfortunately, it is an experience that has been put […]
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New direction
deadCenter’s recently named new executive director Alyx Picard Davis began volunteering at the film festival in 2006. Studying screenwriting at University of Central Oklahoma at the time, Picard Davis heard about the festival from her French professor. “I just I loved it,” Picard Davis said. “I fell in love with the people; I fell in […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Hollywood ‘Oklahoma’
The Watchmen television series earned high critical praise for its ambitious run on HBO, which included the first-ever on-screen depiction of the Tulsa Race Massacre, but if fans want to tour Oklahoma after watching the series, they’ll be surprised that it looks nothing like its Georgia-shot locations that stand in for Tulsa. The latest in […]
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Gone Hollywood
Casting notices for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Jesse Eisenberg watching a Thunder home game with Mayor David Holt seem to indicate Oklahoma’s status in the film world has noticeably improved from the days when the state served as the launchpad for Twister’s flying cow. Earlier this month, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Department’s […]