Deadpool comes out this week, and for me it’s going to be a perfect Valentine’s movie- he’s a wisecracking antihero who’s rude and obnoxious. You know he’s going to rescue the girl at the end (or she’s going to rescue herself), so there’s not going to be sappy grief, but it’s going to be a […]
Category: Geekery
Fought, Eisenhower and Disney Princess Movies
While scrolling through Tumblr (dangerous, I know), I came across a reblogging of the post by Washington Post writer Jeff Guo discussing the work of linguists Carmen Fought and Karen Eisenhauer. They’ve been taking a look at ALL the Disney Princess movies, and studying the dialogue in them- how many times each character speaks, what […]
Mini-Review: Dead Man’s Party Shadowhunters 1:3
So, while I think that any episode of Freeform’s Shadowhunters that doesn’t have Magnus can be classified as pure filler, Dead Man’s Party (air date January 26, 2016) definitely moved forward the story quite a bit and introduced watchers to some key characters that will become extremely important later on in the story line. If you haven’t watched […]
Favorite Conspiracy Movies
The X-Files returned Sunday, 22 years after it’s first episode (and it seemed like 22 years after the end of the Arizona Cardinals/Carolina Panthers playoff game). While the first episode on Sunday seemed disjointed and pushed too much into one hour, the second episode on Monday seemed much more like what those of us who […]
Book to Screen: Spring 2016
Being a complete book and media nerd, I get really excited when projects I’ve been watching for a while actually make it to the screen, whether small or big. It used to be that we had to wait until the start of the summer blockbusters to get comic love and book blockbuster fixes, but studios […]
Shadowhunters: 5 Irks and 3 Reasons to Keep Watching
My name is Christie and I am a sucker for book based movies and TV shows. I streamed Freeform’s (formerly ABCFamily) Shadowhunters the other day, and on one hand was really quite surprised. The first two episodes (two combined to form the first showing) were really good- much better than the movie, and yet there […]
Star Wars: A Year of Programming, Part 3
We’ve hit spring and summer, so today I’m taking a look at ways to integrate Star Wars in new ways throughout the fall and winter months. August sees the biggest shift in programming dynamics within public and school libraries- public libraries see their tweens and teens starting back up with school activities long before […]
Star Wars: A Year of Programming, Part II
Yesterday I shared ideas to incorporate Star Wars into programming from January through May in ways that you may not have though of- definitely more than May 4th and 5th (May the 4th Be With You and Revenge of the 5th respectively). Today I want to focus on the summer months: June, July and August. For […]
Star Wars: A Year of Programming, Part 1
Star Wars is all that my range of geekdom wants to talk about- what happens next, did you see that, did you catch that reference, why are they waiting until 2017 for the next one, etc., etc., etc. Needless to say, my tweens and teens are geeking out as well- since Star Wars is such a […]
Star Wars Programs for Teens
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens coming December 19th (right in time for everyone’s winter breaks, yea Disney) and the full length trailer released last week, my teens have talked about NO-THING since, and probably won’t. At least until Mockingjay Part 2 breaks through their consciousness, and then it’ll be back to Star Wars. Star Wars Reads Day and […]