Have war films outlasted our actual wars? xkcd digs for an answer

Randall Munroe’s What If?, one of the most popular new books of the year, scientifically guesstimates the answers to absurd hypothetical questions. Usually these involve pushing the laws of physics to their breaking point, but once in a while, they just deal with situations of absurd, immeasurable scale. After spending a lazy afternoon browsing the … Continue reading “Have war films outlasted our actual wars? xkcd digs for an answer”

Randall Munroe’s What If?, one of the most popular new books of the year, scientifically guesstimates the answers to absurd hypothetical questions. Usually these involve pushing the laws of physics to their breaking point, but once in a while, they just deal with situations of absurd, immeasurable scale. After spending a lazy afternoon browsing the What If webs… er, doing research, we’ve found a scenario that’s directly relevant to our collections: are the total running times of all World War II films longer than the war itself?

Using the massive amounts of tags and data accrued by IMDb – and some clever averaging to save time – Munroe estimates that there are about 300 days of World War II films and movies. That’s only about a seventh as long as the war itself, but that’s still a great ratio for a multi-year international conflict. Some smaller wars that lasted for only a few days have an edge, but no major conflict comes as close as World War II. It speaks volumes about our broader cultural fascination with one of the last wars that people still refer to as “great.”

We don’t have all 300 days worth of World War II films in our collection, but we recognize that war films are a popular and perennially relevant genre. To this end, we want to direct you to our war films Pinterest board, which contains over 200 movies ranging from Enemy at the Gates to Courage Under Fire. That’s good for about a solid month of war films – still shorter than the Falklands War.

See Men, Women & Children, then grab the T-Shirt!

As we head into October, we’re leaving behind summer blockbusters and heading straight into the prestige season, when award-contenders and major dramas are released for the discerning public. One of the more conspicuous debuts this week is Men, Women & Children, the latest film by director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno, Young Adult). … Continue reading “See Men, Women & Children, then grab the T-Shirt!”

As we head into October, we’re leaving behind summer blockbusters and heading straight into the prestige season, when award-contenders and major dramas are released for the discerning public. One of the more conspicuous debuts this week is Men, Women & Children, the latest film by director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno, Young Adult). Reitman has some pretty strong dramedy chops under his belt, so we have high expectations for this one. But we also have some movie swag!

We currently have a bag full of posters and T-shirts for Men, Women & Children to give away at the Media Services desk. If you’re interested in this movie, enjoy Jason Reitman, or just want something to decorate your wall/body,  we encourage you to come by and pick something up! We also have a poster for Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader’s indie hit The Skeleton Twins and a tote bag for summer breakout Chef.

And of course, we also have passes to see Men, Women & Children this Wednesday evening at the AMC Loews Georgetown 14. Swing by to grab a shirt and a pass. As always, remember that these advance screenings are intentionally overbooked, so show up early to ensure that you get a seat.

A eulogy for the Saturday morning cartoon

Yesterday marked the largely unheralded end of a television tradition: the Saturday morning cartoon. For nearly fifty years, network channels devoted a significant portion of their Saturday programming to children’s animated programs, but with the end of The CW’s “Vortexx” block, no major broadcast networks is airing cartoons on Saturday anymore. After years of criticism … Continue reading “A eulogy for the Saturday morning cartoon”

Yesterday marked the largely unheralded end of a television tradition: the Saturday morning cartoon. For nearly fifty years, network channels devoted a significant portion of their Saturday programming to children’s animated programs, but with the end of The CW’s “Vortexx” block, no major broadcast networks is airing cartoons on Saturday anymore. After years of criticism for selling kids sugary cereal and toys, it’s not surprising (and perhaps for the better) that educational and family-friendly programs have largely replaced cartoons as the go-to weekend staple. Child-friendly animation is still alive and well on channels like Cartoon Network and Disney XD, but the tradition that birthed Scooby-Doo, Yogi Bear, GI Joe, and the likes is now finished.

Certainly in the pantheon of all television shows, Saturday morning cartoons were among the most disposable. But they were a culturally significant niche, one that influenced generations of children and, if the success of Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this summer is any indication, will continue to inform our media preferences for years to come.

Although our collection has a great selection of cartoons (including classics like Woody Woodpecker the recent The Amazing World of Gumball), we frankly don’t have very many that began as part of the Saturday morning tradition. This might be for the best, given the quality of some of them. We do however, have both Captain Planet and the Planeteers (HU DVD 8841) and Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures! (HU DVD 10285). If you’re looking for Saturday morning cartoons, you could certainly do worse than these too. But we don’t provide cereal and action figures.

No more lasers? PBS takes on the realism of movie space combat

We might criticize special effects for overstaying their welcome on occasion, but without CGI and crazy miniature work, we wouldn’t have space battles. Watching spaceships shoot lasers and blow up is among the greatest, basest pleasures of movies. Even the Star Wars prequels, superfluous as they may be, have a few entertaining space fights. Color … Continue reading “No more lasers? PBS takes on the realism of movie space combat”

We might criticize special effects for overstaying their welcome on occasion, but without CGI and crazy miniature work, we wouldn’t have space battles. Watching spaceships shoot lasers and blow up is among the greatest, basest pleasures of movies. Even the Star Wars prequels, superfluous as they may be, have a few entertaining space fights. Color us saddened if unsurprised that these scenes are very scientifically inaccurate.

As part of his It’s Okay to Be Smart series, PBS’s Joseph Shoer produced a six-minute video (embedded above) explaining how movie-magic space combat would work in a scientifically accurate setting. Too many factors, especially speed-of-light travel and the feasibility of weaponized lasers, prevent the possibility of flashy movie-style battles. He suggests that realistically, space combat would resemble a war from the 1800s, with cannon-like projectiles and sluggish communications.

So why do the movies get it wrong? Shoer argues that many early science fiction films were in fact reflections on modern war, and their combat scenes stylistically mimicked classic cinematic depictions of aerial dogfights. He juxtaposes footage of the famous Death Star battle scene from Star Wars alongside clips from The Dam Busters (HU DVD 7519), and it’s hard to argue against that visual evidence.

If you like sci-fi, have a few minutes to spare, and don’t mind a little cheesiness, check this video out. Hopefully it won’t ruin your enjoyment of “pew pew pew” in the future

New Acquisitions – September 2014

Everyone settled in for the semester? We haven’t brought you a new batch of titles since July, mostly because we’ve been working through our enormous backlog. By our count, we’ve cataloged over 150 new items since last time, including a good number of new and returning television shows. In the interest in promoting a wide … Continue reading “New Acquisitions – September 2014”

Everyone settled in for the semester? We haven’t brought you a new batch of titles since July, mostly because we’ve been working through our enormous backlog. By our count, we’ve cataloged over 150 new items since last time, including a good number of new and returning television shows.

In the interest in promoting a wide variety of content, we want to highlight a few items that are polar opposites. Pretty much everyone loves The Lego Movie, but we also acquired the entire series of The Shield, beloved Korean body-swapping soap opera Secret Garden, Lars von Trier’s highly explicit Nymphomaniac, cult British acting tour de force Orphan Black, and a documentary about the unproduced version of Dune by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

(We also got our hands on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, by far the most surreal program ever to air on television.)

Hit the jump to see what we got our hands on in the last month…

Home Use Collection:

Bloody Sunday – HU DVD 561
Omar – HU DVD 2803
The Oyster Princess – HU DVD 2897
They Drive by Night – HU DVD 3621
Across the Pacific – HU DVD 3622
Action in the North Atlantic – HU DVD 3623
Passage to Marseille – HU DVD 3624
Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight  – HU DVD 3625
Far From Vietnam – HU DVD 3626
Masquerade – HU DVD 3627
First Cousin Once Removed – HU DVD 3629
Freedom Summer – HU DVD 3630
Five Minutes of Heaven – HU DVD 3631
Crazy Sexy Cancer – HU DVD 3633
The Europeans – HU DVD 3634
Mr. Jealousy – HU DVD 3635
Love and Anarchy – HU DVD 3636
The Black Kungfu Experience – HU DVD 3637
Beeswax – HU DVD 3639
Party Girl – HU DVD 3640
The Second Woman – HU DVD 4011
Donovan’s Reef – HU DVD 4012
The Golden Age of 2nd Avenue – HU DVD 4013
99 River Street – HU DVD 4014
Dirty Money = Un Flic – HU DVD 4015
Jupiter’s Wife – HU DVD 4016
When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun – HU DVD 4032
Cleo from 5 to 7 – HU DVD 4151
Next Friday – HU DVD 5053
Friday After Next – HU DVD 5054
All About the Benjamins – HU DVD 5055
Baryshnikov Dances Sinatra – HU DVD 5057
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp – HU DVD 5059
A History of Dance on Screen – HU DVD 5061
Dark City – HU DVD 5062
God Loves Uganda – HU DVD 5063
Charley Varrick – HU DVD 5065
Door to Door – HU DVD 5066
Of Mice and Men – HU DVD 5195
A Simple Life – HU DVD 5212
Anita: Speaking Truth to Power – HU DVD 5213
Happy Mother’s Day – HU DVD 5219
Altiplano – HU DVD 5221
I Was a Communist for the FBI – HU DVD 5222
Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song – HU DVD 5224
High Wall – HU DVD 5225
American Milkshake – HU DVD 5226
The Unsuspected – HU DVD 6401
The Stool Pigeon – HU DVD 6402
Up/Down – HU DVD 6403
Stranger on the Third Floor – HU DVD 6404
Robot Stories – HU DVD 6405
Bicentennial Man – HU DVD 6407
I, Robot – HU DVD 6408
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies – HU DVD 6409
Attica – HU DVD 6410
In Shock – HU DVD 6411
Plunder Road – HU DVD 6412
The Locket – HU DVD 6413
Private Hell 36 – HU DVD 6414
Rewind This – HU DVD 6416
A Chinese Odyssey Part 1/Part 2 – HU DVD 6417
The File on Thelma Jordon – HU DVD 6419
Union Station – HU DVD 6420
Pandora’s Promise – HU DVD 6421
Torture Made in USA – HU DVD 6422
American Meat – HU DVD 6552
Knock on any Door – HU DVD 6561
Follow Me Quietly – HU DVD 6564
Crime of Passion Mandela: – HU DVD 6565
The Man Who Cheated Himself – HU DVD 6566
Cry of the City – HU DVD 6567
Caesar Must Die – HU DVD 6587
Flash Point – HU DVD 6588
Wonders of the Universe – HU DVD 6589
Wing Chun – HU DVD 6590
Hunger – HU DVD 7087
Generation War – HU DVD 7605
Foreign Parts – HU DVD 7607
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye – HU DVD 7608
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – HU DVD 7609
Cry Danger – HU DVD 7610
Lost Angels – HU DVD 7611
84 Charging Cross Roads – HU DVD 7612
Fear in the Night – HU DVD 7613
Woman on Pier 13 – HU DVD 7614
The Phantom Lady – HU DVD 7615
Ghost Army – HU DVD 7616
While the City Sleeps – HU DVD 7621
Unacceptable Levels – HU DVD 7622
F.I.S.T. – HU DVD 7625
The Life of Reilly – HU DVD 7626
Jimmy P. – HU DVD 7627
Impact – HU DVD 7628
Touched – HU DVD 7629
Journey to the West – HU DVD 7630
Vicki – HU DVD 7633
My Brother the Devil – HU DVD 7981
Mutual Appreciation – HU DVD 8451
The Football Factory – HU DVD 8453
The Prowler – HU DVD 8454
Caught – HU DVD 8456
Betrayed – HU DVD 8459
Nobody Lives Forever – HU DVD 9128
The Elegant Universe – HU DVD 9166
The Fabric of the Cosmos – HU DVD 9167
The Man Nobody Knew – HU DVD 10137
Scanners – HU DVD 10759
Dream Home – HU DVD 11384
Pride, Honor & Courage: Jewish Women Remember World War II – HU DVD 11390
The Grand Budapest Hotel – HU DVD 11444
Secret Garden – HU DVD 11459
Kill Your Darlings – HU DVD 11460
Kill Your Darlings – HU BLU 11460
Joe – HU DVD 11463
The Unknown Known – HU DVD 11464
Jodorwsky’s Dune – HU DVD 11465
Jodorwsky’s Dune – HU BLU 11465
The Lego Movie – HU DVD 11466
The Lego Movie – HU BLU 11466
The Double – HU DVD 11467
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – HU DVD 11471
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – HU BLU 11471
Nymphomaniac, Volumes I and II – HU DVD 11474
The Broken Circle Breakdown – HU DVD 11475
Shaolin Soccer – HU DVD 11476

Television:

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season 1 – HU DVD 4025
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season 2 – HU DVD 4026
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season 3 – HU DVD 4027
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season 4 – HU DVD 4028
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season Cinco – HU DVD 4029
Eastbound and Down, Season 4 – HU DVD 7044
Parks and Recreation, Season 5 – HU DVD 9225
Community, Season 4 – HU DVD 10004
True Detective, Season 1 – HU DVD 11445
Sons of Anarchy, Season 1 – HU DVD 11446
Sons of Anarchy, Season 2 – HU DVD 11447
Copper, Season 1 – HU DVD 11455
Northern Exposure, Season 1 – HU DVD 11456
Northern Exposure, Season 2 – HU DVD 11457
Northern Exposure, Season 3 – HU DVD 11458
Luther, Season 1 – HU DVD 11468
Luther, Season 2 – HU DVD 11469
House of Lies, Season 1 – HU DVD 11470
Orphan Black, Season 1 – HU DVD 11472
Orphan Black, Season 2 – HU DVD 11473
Mr. Selfridge, Season 1 – HU DVD 14099
House of Cards, Season 2 – HU DVD 14211
Masters of Sex, Season 1 – HU DVD 14212
The Shield, Season 1 – HU DVD 14213
The Shield, Season 2 – HU DVD 14214
The Shield, Season 3 – HU DVD 14215
The Shield, Season 4 – HU DVD 14216
The Shield, Season 5 – HU DVD 14217
The Shield, Season 6 – HU DVD 14218
The Shield, Season 7 – HU DVD 14219

In-Library Titles:

Die Puppe – DVD 2896
Sumurun – DVD 2898
Anna Boleyn – DVD 2899
Bergkatze – DVD 2900
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin – DVD 2901
The Uraba Trilogy: Never Again – DVD 3628
Tibet: Murder in the Snow – DVD 3638
Sputnik Mania – DVD 3642
Fire in the Blood – DVD 3643
Strategy of the Snail – DVD 5060
God and Kings – DVD 5064
Two Spirits: Native American Lesbians and Gays – DVD 5211
Baby – DVD 5217
Chiefs – DVD 5218
1:00 PM – DVD 5220
I Will Be Murdered – DVD 5223
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter – DVD 5425
Hollywood Contra Franco – DVD 6415
Mind in the Making  – DVD 6418
The Stuart Hall Project – DVD 7624
180 Days – DVD 7631
Caught – DVD 11348
I Don’t Want to Talk About It – DVD 11378
Inside the Jury Room – DVD 11380
Journey of Hope – DVD 11381
Avant Guarde Shorts – DVD 11382
Circus – DVD 11383
The Smiling Madame Beudet – DVD 11386
An Enemy of the People – DVD 11387
Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary – DVD 11406
Washoe: Apes and Sign Language – DVD 11408
The Road to Bloody Sunday – DVD 11409
Looking Back At You – DVD 11415
Banking On The Poor – DVD 11424
Inside the Tobacco Deal – DVD 11425

Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age – DVD 11452

Dig into television and film corpuses with Bookworm Movies

One handy tool for cultural analysis is to measure how often words are used within a given set of texts, whether that’s transcripts from Congress or every document ever written. It’s much easier to search through the written word for obvious reasons, leaving audio-visual media left out of the content analysis process. Luckily, a very … Continue reading “Dig into television and film corpuses with Bookworm Movies”

One handy tool for cultural analysis is to measure how often words are used within a given set of texts, whether that’s transcripts from Congress or every document ever written. It’s much easier to search through the written word for obvious reasons, leaving audio-visual media left out of the content analysis process. Luckily, a very clever professor named Ben Schmidt has leveraged big data to make movies and television shows as searchable as books.

Schmidt’s new service, Bookwork Movies, uses the Open Subtitles database to grab the scripts from thousands of movies and shows. Punch in any word or phrase – and, optionally, a specific show or medium – and Bookworm Movies will produce a detailed graph of how often each word is used relative to its entire corpus. As show in the chart above, Scrubs uses the word “doctor” more frequently than many medical dramas, while it appears comparatively little in Grey’s Anatomy. There’s all sorts of angles you could go above analyzing that. This is a terrific starting point for seeing how television shows and movies change language over time in comparison to one another.

The best part? The entirety of The Simpsons is included as well. And thankfully, they haven’t used the word “selfie” yet.

Top 10: Scotland, On Screen and Behind the Camera

We’re proud of the variety and depth of the Media Services collection. In the interest of bringing you some highlights and deep cuts from our shelves, we’ll be posting unusual and interesting Top 10 lists of some of our favorite DVDs. Today, Scotland heads to the polls to vote on whether to declare independence. Even … Continue reading “Top 10: Scotland, On Screen and Behind the Camera”

We’re proud of the variety and depth of the Media Services collection. In the interest of bringing you some highlights and deep cuts from our shelves, we’ll be posting unusual and interesting Top 10 lists of some of our favorite DVDs.

Today, Scotland heads to the polls to vote on whether to declare independence. Even if the vote fails, this election may be one of the most momentous in recent European history. In Media Services, we’ve been abuzz with one question: if Scotland declares independence, do we start looking at their national cinema separate from the United Kingdom too? This is an especially hard question to answer given the fluid national identity of the UK.

Regardless, Scotland has a quality film history, both in on-screen depictions and from their filmmakers. We’ve done a little perusing, and we’d like to share what we consider the top ten films in Scotland and from Scotland.

(And sorry, but we made the executive decision not to include Highlander on this list.)

This is Alfred Hitchcock’s only film set in Scotland, and it’s a doozy. Many consider it among Hitchcock’s best films shot in the United Kingdom, and its narrative elements – an innocent man on the run, unexpected character deaths, a MacGuffin – anticipate some of his later masterpieces like Psycho and North by Northwest.

Maybe it’s a little obvious, but this 1995 Best Picture winner remains the most iconic depictions of Scotland in the history of film. There is perhaps no more widely recognized symbol of of Scottish nationalism than William Wallace screaming “Freedom!” Expect many Braveheart references in tonight’s news coverage.

Outside of Brave, there are very few animated films set in Scotland. This one, based on an unproduced screenplay by French director Jacques Tati, follows a magician who sunsets his career in Scotland. Melancholy and wistful, The Illusionist is a gorgeous film that was rightly nominated for the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar.

Bill Forsyth is probably the first name you would put on a list of Scottish national cinema directors. His 1983 comedy about a Texan oil baron attempting to buy a coastal Scottish town is a tribute to everything beloved about his country. Critics swooned over it too: Local Hero is among the only films with a shocking 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ratcatcher is a coming-of-age story, but it is perhaps most notable for setting that story against the background of the 1973 Glasgow garbage strikes. That event is an underdocumented, fairly ugly moment in Scottish history, and Ratcatcher engages with this past in rare form.

Yes, Rob Roy is the product of an American studio, and its lead actor is Irish. But this story of one of the great Scottish folk heroes is an indelibly Scottish experience. The entire film was (beautifully) shot in the Highlands and makes use of real castles, though this lead to all sorts of production-related weather and travel nightmares.

Starring a pre-Doctor Who Christopher Eccelston, this dark crime comedy was a sleeper success that found new life with a 2012 Criterion re-issue. The film is also notable as the first product of frequent collaborators Danny Boyle and John Hodge. This directing-writing duo would go on to produce one of the most famous of all Scottish films…

Danny Boyle’s gonzo take on heroin and economic depression in Edinburgh is remembered for its vibrant and manic performances, particularly from then-unknown Ewan McGregor. That one of the most famous Scottish films is about drugs and squalor isn’t necessarily a negative. Frank McAveety, a former Scottish tourism minister, called the attention “welcome.”

The original Wicker Man (not the regrettable Nicolas Cage remake) is a masterwork of horror that uses the Scottish isles to great effect. Christopher Lee gives one of the most powerful performances of his career as the leader of a pagan cult tied to a young girl’s disappearance.

Whisky Galore! is a love letter to an acquired taste in alcohol. When a ship carrying an astronomical amount of whiskey crashes in Scotland, the local village goes nuts defending and/or looting it. This is a certifiably silly movie that probably doesn’t help Scotland’s reputation, but it certainly doesn’t pretend to be anything but madcap.

Simon Pegg fan? See Hector and the Search for Happiness THIS THURSDAY

We’ve been posting a ton about free film screenings recently, but there have just been a great number happening in the last few weeks. That’s certainly not a bad thing, especially if you enjoy quality entertainment for minimal price. But it’s been a while since we brought you an advance screening of an upcoming movie. … Continue reading “Simon Pegg fan? See Hector and the Search for Happiness THIS THURSDAY”

We’ve been posting a ton about free film screenings recently, but there have just been a great number happening in the last few weeks. That’s certainly not a bad thing, especially if you enjoy quality entertainment for minimal price. But it’s been a while since we brought you an advance screening of an upcoming movie. Time to fix that.

We have passes to an advance screening of Hector and the Search for Happiness, an upcoming star vehicle starring Simon Pegg. A far cry from his usual dark comedies, Pegg stars as a psychiatrist who travels the world in pursuit of… well, happiness. To be frank, the movie isn’t getting good reviews so far. But if you like Simon Pegg, it might be worth an opportunity to see him doing something strikingly different.

The screening goes down tomorrow night, Thursday, September 18th, at 8pm at the AMC Loews Georgetown. Pick up your advance pass in person at the Media Services desk. As always, please remember to show up early, as these screenings are intentionally overbooked and passes and do not guarantee entry.

AU Library begins late Friday hours with 22 Jump Street

The AU Library has traditionally always closed on Friday at 9pm, but this semester, we’re trying something different. Starting this Friday, September 12th, the library will be open for late-night hours, but not just so you can study. We’re planning a series of Friday events, including game nights and free movies. We’re kicking off our … Continue reading “AU Library begins late Friday hours with 22 Jump Street”

The AU Library has traditionally always closed on Friday at 9pm, but this semester, we’re trying something different. Starting this Friday, September 12th, the library will be open for late-night hours, but not just so you can study. We’re planning a series of Friday events, including game nights and free movies.

We’re kicking off our Friday night lineup with a free screening of 22 Jump Street this Friday at 9pm in the Mud Box. We love practically anything Lord and Miller put out, and the Jump Street series is no exception. (Plus, we figured the college theme wouldn’t hurt.) 22 Jump Street is out of theaters and won’t hit DVD until mid-late November, so this might be your only chance to see it until Thanksgiving.

We hope you join us in the library this Friday! We want to bring you exciting evening events more regularly, so if this goes well, expect to hear more in the future.

Mark the fortieth anniversary of Watergate with a free screening of All the President’s Men

August marked the fortieth anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation and the culmination of the biggest scandal in American political history. The legacy of the Watergate scandal is still alive in part because of All the President’s Men, the Academy Award-winning film about the Washington Post‘s investigation of the break-ins. Its depiction of real, hard-hitting, grounded … Continue reading “Mark the fortieth anniversary of Watergate with a free screening of All the President’s Men”

August marked the fortieth anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation and the culmination of the biggest scandal in American political history. The legacy of the Watergate scandal is still alive in part because of All the President’s Men, the Academy Award-winning film about the Washington Post‘s investigation of the break-ins. Its depiction of real, hard-hitting, grounded journalism has make it a perennial favorite in the communications world.

To commemorate this anniversary, the School of Communication will be hosting a screening of All the President’s Men TONIGHT at 7pm in the recently renovated McKinley Building. Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor at the Post, will also offer a few words about the role of the press in the Watergate scandal. (Best of all, it’s free, and there will be refreshments at 6:30pm!)

Stop by the Forman Theater in McKinley tonight for a screening of a terrific film with some editorial comments from an authority figure in the world of print journalism. See you there!