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‘The Brutalist’: A Masterpiece or a Miss? – The Cinematic Schematic
February 19, 2025
‘Heart Eyes’ Carves Up the Ultimate Date Movie
February 14, 2025
Laron’s Top 25 Films of 2024
January 24, 2025
The Cinematropolis Top 5 Movies of 2024 – The Cinematic Schematic
January 15, 2025
Cinema Sneak Peek: New Movies to Watch in 2025 – The Cinematic Schematic
January 8, 2025
The Most Overlooked Films of 2024
January 7, 2025
Conclave Is Anointed As Best Film at the 2024 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
January 3, 2025
‘Nosferatu’ Makes Vampires Haunting Again – The Cinematic Schematic
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ Is an Inventive, if Flat Franchise Resurrection – The Cinematic Schematic
December 18, 2024
‘The Complete Unknown’ Is a “Good Enough” Bob Dylan Biopic – The Cinematic Schematic
December 10, 2024

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Play ‘Chicken’ with These Filmmakers – dCFF22

June 11, 2022

What happens when three competing Okie actresses get a mysterious new roommate, and things start to get a little weird and unhinged in the house?

Maybe really weird.

Writer/director/actor Cate Jones explores this in her new feature, Chicken House, an Oklahoma-made…

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Chicken House Brings Autobiographical Comedy To Life – dCFF22

June 10, 2022

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The 2022 deadCenter Film Festival is the home to a wide variety of Okie Features from multitalented filmmakers like Cate Jones. In 2020, Jones made her directorial debut with the She’s the Eldest, a black and white dramedy with a real personal touch. She’s back this…

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A ‘Wake Up’ Call to Indie Filmmakers – dCFF22

June 9, 2022

Who among us hasn’t had an existential crisis while wandering around Los Angeles? I know I have.

That’s the basic premise of Wake Up, Leonard, a film in which the titular character finds himself running back and forth between old and new apartments, old…

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Introducing Mickey Reece’s UndeadCenter “Midnight Movies” Programming – dCFF22

June 8, 2022

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Today marks the first day of the deadCenter 2022 Film Festival and a return to fully in-person festivities after two years of hybrid events. Not only is deadCenter bringing back several pieces of its staple programming such as the Okie Shorts Volume 1 and

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Mama Bears Makes the Case for Empathy Toward LGBTQ Communities – dCFF22

June 8, 2022

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Today we continue our exclusive deadCenter 2022 coverage with a look at this year’s deadCenter opening night film from director Daresha Kyi, Mama Bears. Kyi sits down with us on The Cinematic Schematic to talk about how she first learned about the Mama Bears organization…

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The Seeds of Greenwood Tells Inspiring Stories of Fellows Program – dCFF22

June 6, 2022

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How do you raise a new generation to overcome more than a hundred years of setbacks?

The Cinematic Schematic continues our exclusive deadCenter 2022 coverage with a look at another tried and true festival tradition, a public OKC Thunder Films screening….

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Out of Exile Brings the Big Screen Crime Thrills to deadCenter – dCFF22

June 5, 2022

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Bank heists. Family character drama. Twisted morality. If you like to see any of these elements at the movies, writer/director Kyle Kauwika Harris’s new film premiering at this year’s deadCenter Film Festival, Out of Exile, is a must-see. It’s a “one last job” crime thriller complete…

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The Battle of Honey Springs is deadCenter’s Historical War Movie – dCFF22

June 4, 2022

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In this exclusive deadCenter 2022 interview, we sit down with writer/director Bryan Beasley to discuss his new film and the festival’s war movie this year, The Battle of Honey Springs. Beasley talks about how the battle had direct impacts on the US Civil War and helped…

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The Official 2022 deadCenter Film Festival Sneak Peek

June 1, 2022

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Today kicks off our exclusive coverage of the 2022 deadCenter Film Festival! To help listeners prepare for what to expect, The Cinematic Schematic is joined by the deadCenter director of operations+festival, Miranda Patton, and the deadCenter director of programming, Sara Thompson, to discuss this year’s…

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Alex Garland And Toxic Masculinity, From ’28 Days Later’ To ‘Men’

May 23, 2022

Men – the mystifying 2022 film from writer-director Alex Garland and studio A24 – brings to mind the social media hashtag #YesAllWomen, which arose in conjunction with the #MeToo movement and ushered into the online public discourse story after story of women suffering in myriad ways under…

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