13 Nights of Halloween Horror featuring horror movie icons

13 Nights of Halloween Horror: Night 4

“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 featuring horror movie icons

13 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 […]

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13 Nights of Halloween Horror featuring horror movie icons

13 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 […]

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I Am Everything Movie poster

Little 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 […]

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Coded 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? […]

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Our 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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