Eric Wesselmann News Today

“Can You Dig It? Exploring Race, Representation and Culture in Blaxploitation Films" is an ISU course where students and others experience films that showcase the Blaxploitation era in American cinema.

The new movie “Cocaine Bear” goes into wide release Friday. Playing off that renewed interest in animals gone wild, the Normal Theater is screening two of its own nature-run-amok films at 7 p.m. Saturday.

The “Halloween” movies take place in fictional Haddonfield, Illinois. Clues sprinkled throughout the movies reveal that if Haddonfield really existed, it would be located near Pontiac right along Interstate 55. Other hints suggest it’s something of a doppelganger for Bloomington-Normal.

The first film in the “Understanding Horror” series is “Night of the Living Dead" on Aug. 25 at the Normal Theater.

“Thor: Love and Thunder,” one of the biggest summer blockbusters, is now in theaters. WGLT's Psych Geeks (from ISU's Department of Psychology) are back to talk about finding the humanity in a story about a God.

WGLT’s Psych Geeks — aka Illinois State University psychology professors Scott Jordan and Eric Wesselmann — are back to help dissect Wayne, the rich boy whose childhood trauma led him to become the vengeance-seeking Batman.

There's a lot of fighting and web-slinging in the new film “Spiderman: No Way Home.” But there's also a lot of complicated psychology at play as Peter Parker confronts the multiverse – this big narrative swing from Marvel that opens the door for multiple versions of the same character.