“Seven days…” or so you might hear on the phone after watching this film on Night 4 of our 13 Nights of Halloween Horror. Rachel and her little boy, Aidan, are doing their best to make it in Seattle. She’s a young, single mother and a journalist. He’s an uncannily serious, hollow-eyed 8-year-old whose cousin […]
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13 Nights of Halloween Horror: Night 3
How about a nice camping trip to the woods for Night 3 of 13 Nights of Halloween Horror? Just you, a camcorder, and two friends on a mission to learn a little bit about a local legend… The Blair Witch Project (1999) follows Heather, Josh, and Michael as they aim to make a documentary about […]
Continue reading13 Nights of Halloween Horror: Night 2
It’s Night 2 of the 13 Nights of Halloween Horror and the screams are starting to get louder! Candyman (1992) is our next film on this buzzing night. Taking place on another college campus, similar to ours, with bees swarming around just like American University’s Bees (kept on Mary Graydon Student Center’s second floor). Be […]
Continue reading13 Nights of Halloween Horror: Night 1
Calling all horror lovers! As the nights grow longer and Halloween approaches, it’s the perfect time to settle in for a marathon of horror films that span decades, subgenres, and styles. Over the next 13 nights, we’ll highlight our favorite slashers, creature features, psychological thrillers, and more. To kick things off, we’re starting with the […]
Continue readingNew Equipment for Loan at Media Services
From instant photography to professional multimedia software, new equipment at the Library gives students more ways to bring their creative projects to life.
Continue readingLong-Form Storytelling in Early 2000s Cable TV: The L Word
Spoiler Free When The L Word first aired on Showtime in 2004, it stood out not only for its LGBTQ+ representation but also for how it told its story. Unlike many TV shows at the time that had self-contained episodes, introducing and resolving conflicts within a single episode, The L Word used long-form storytelling, continuing […]
Continue readingMust-Watch Beatles Films before Sam Mendes’ Biopics
With Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics generating buzz after the recent announcement of the castings for the Fab Four, now is the perfect time to revisit (or watch for the first time) classic films starring or about the iconic band. Luckily, there has been an enormous about of content created about The Beatles, meaning there’s […]
Continue readingLittle Richard: I Am Everything
In the canon of rock and roll, certain figures loom so large their influence is inseparable from the genre itself. Yet history has a way of sanding down the edges of its most radical architects, chipping away at what makes them human. Little Richard: I Am Everything, a 2023 documentary directed by Lisa Cortes, seeks […]
Continue readingCoded Bias and the Inequality of Algorithms
In this token-strewn, post-ChatGPT world, we lend great credence to The Algorithm. It determines our route to work in the morning, tells us what to watch next, manages our retirement fund, and rewrites our emails. It’s easy to take its output as optimal—unlike the imperfect human mind, The Algorithm is objective, mathematical, and logical… right? […]
Continue readingOur Collection Picks for Climate Change Documentaries
1. An Inconvenient Truth (2006) An Inconvenient Truth is a film adaptation of former vice president Al Gore’s long-running educational campaign on climate change and global warming. Perhaps the most ever critically acclaimed feature film-length slideshow presentation, Gore discusses the history, science, and lack of public knowledge around global warming. Deemed by The New Yorker […]
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