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 […]
Tag: geekery
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 […]
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 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 […]
Bloody Wicked Vampire Movies
So we’ve talked about horror/suspense movies, and we’ve talked about killer zombie movies, so the next move would be vampire movies for a perfect Halloween night, right? Not fuzzy relationship movies, I’m talking about fang-bearing blood suckers with supernatural abilities that you do NOT want to be on the wrong side of, day or night. […]
Film Censorship
This week is Banned Books Week, where librarians across the country work to bring awareness about censorship to all patrons, both external (whom we normally think of as our patrons) and internal (our staff and colleagues, as well as our city and school employees). The ALA has released the top 10 most frequently challenged books 2014, […]
Captain America: Civil War
One of the most anticipated movies to hit next year, Captain America: Civil War is going to be the Free Comic Book Day Weekend Release and set up the massive split of the Marvel Universe. For a long while everyone’s been debating what characters were going to come into play, and thanks to Jeremy Renner, we […]
Grifter Movie Playlist
Con man = confidence man = grifter = swindler 1775-85; back formation from swindler < German Schwindler irresponsible person, promoter of wildcat schemes, cheat, derivative of schwindeln to bedizzy (hence dizzy-minded, irresponsible), defraud, equivalent to schwind- (akin to Old English swindan to languish) + -( e) l- -le + -er -er1 We hold a fascination with grifters in movies and […]