The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection. Seven years have passed since the last Superman film – 33 years since arguably the last good Superman film. We didn’t expect them […]
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Media Services at the Movies: The Internship
The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection. No pretenses here: sometimes we’re suckers for dumb comedies. Though our staff tends to be split on this, we’re frequently okay with movies […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – May 2013
After a month-long hiatus, we’ve once again started receiving new movies. We’re in the process of playing catch-up. In addition to rounding out our collection of Best Picture nominees (now including Silver Linings Playbook and Django Unchained), we’ve updated our collection of Frontline and 30 for 30 episodes, added the last of the Twilight movies, […]
Continue readingMedia Services at the Movies: Now You See Me
The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection. We really have no idea what to expect from Now You See Me. It’s the type of intrigue we haven’t really seen building […]
Continue readingMedia Services at the Movies: Before Midnight
The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection. In a week overloaded with all sorts of explosive, insane sequels (Fast & Furious 6, The Hangover Part III, etc.), the film that […]
Continue readingMedia Services at the Movies: Star Trek Into Darkness
The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection. Get out of your Jeffries tube and adjust your Heisenberg compensators: it’s Star Trek season again! Four years after J. J. Abrams gave […]
Continue readingMedia Services at the Movies: The Great Gatsby
The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection. Baz Luhrmann isn’t the first director to adapt The Great Gatsby for the screen, but he might be the last. Where previous film […]
Continue readingMedia Services at the Movies: Iron Man 3
The summer blockbuster season is here! “Media Services at the Movies” will look at what big movie is coming out this week, then offer a few movies like it from our collection. Even though AU is just entering finals season – and even though spring doesn’t end until mid-June – the first sign of summer […]
Continue readingCollection highlight: Global Lens 2012
As the academic year comes to a close, we’ve acquired an interesting film collection that’s worth a special mention. In their own words, the Global Film Initiative “promotes cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema.” Their board includes such esteemed filmmakers as Pedro Almodóvar and Lars von Trier. Each year, the GFI chooses a selection […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – April 2013
We’re at the end of our purchasing season, so we’re adding one more batch of new titles for the semester. We have a couple Oscar nominees (Les Misérables, Anna Karenina, Life of Pi, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey), a few enlightening documentaries (including biographies of famous composers and an economist), some movies we probably […]
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