In library world we’re always talking about movies that are based on books because to us, that’s one way to get traction with non-readers. LOOK! THEY MADE IT INTO A MOVIE! Nevermind that they cut out whole sections of the book, or mashed characters together to make it “better,” or changed the book entirely (nope, […]
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School Remakes Movie Playlist
Orange County (Florida) School District starts up today and while I get to learn where the bus stops and school zones are around my new neighborhood (and avoid the speed traps along the way), all the neighborhood kids are back to classrooms and teachers. Parents are rejoicing, teachers are anxious, and public librarians are quickly […]
Comic Based Movies to Reboot
With the huge success of Captain America: Civil War overseas and the predicted smash this coming weekend compared with the apparent flop of Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, it’s obvious that Marvel has the formula for their movies down while DC is scrambling. Fox has a hit with Deadpool while Fantastic Four earned dismally. Most of this has to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Winter 2015 Movies
October is nearly over, yet there are so many good movies still to look forward to, and I’m not just talking about the relaunch of the Star Wars franchise (although that is completely exciting). From finales of series to remakes of classics, there are a host of winter 2015 movies that are clamoring for time and money. I’ve […]
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 […]