Three days of finals remain! Summer is close, and we imagine everyone wants to head home as soon as possible. It also means that you won’t have access to our gigantic DVD collection. Fear not: you can still stream a whole bunch of movies through Kanopy. We mentioned Kanopy last year; they have a huge […]
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New Acquisitions – April 2016
As promised, as part of our year-end push, we’re continuing to add huge volumes of classic television shows to our collection. Frasier, The Jeffersons, Get Smart, The Golden Girls, and other famous sitcoms are now available to check out from the library, either for research purposes or just for fun. Huge thanks to our staff […]
Continue readingAfter People v. O. J., a closer look at the Trial of the Century
The People v. O. J. Simpson, the first season of FX’s American Crime Story, ended last night to thunderous reviews. For a generation that didn’t live through the Simpson murder trial and never had to endure a year of Jay Leno monologue jokes, American Crime Story was a sensationalist look at a period of history […]
Continue readingDocumentarians name their 50 favorite documentaries
We’re suckers for any good, contentious list of best films. Whenever a publication puts together their top 300 films or the best horror movies, it inevitably has a few holes, which is an opportunity to talk about what makes art great. (It also give us justification to argue about movies.) The latest “best of” roundup […]
Continue readingAlmost fifty years later, you can finally watch the original Batman
This Friday’s release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice marks the start of Ben Affleck’s new take on Gotham’s caped crusader. Batman’s nearly eighty-year history has allowed for adaptations of his stories with a wide thematic range. For every dark Batman story about justice, there’s another where Calendar Man appears (yes, that’s a real […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – March 2016
You might notice that we’ve added a boatload of older television shows this month. We’re in the process of filling in our television back-catalog, and the place to start has been Full House and The Norm Show. Look for much more classic television to join the collection in the coming weeks. We’ve also started adding […]
Continue readingWatch these great new documentaries from Docuseek2
From Big Dream Our media librarian Chris Lewis once called streaming video website Docuseek2 “an embarrassment of riches” for fans of documentaries. We’re not gonna disagree: Docuseek2 lets you stream some incredibly high-quality documentary films, and this week, their collection got even larger. 43 new titles are now available via Docuseek2, including the comedic short […]
Continue readingAlternative programming: Vote if you can
Today is Super Tuesday, arguably the biggest day in the presidential primaries that could solidify each party’s candidates for November. Like everyone else, we’ll be watching the results as they trickle in tonight, and although we expect plenty of discussion about who did and didn’t drive the vote in each state, we probably won’t hear […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – February 2016
How long can we go in this post without mentioning that we now have Magic Mike XXL? One sentence, I guess. In any event, our latest batch of acquisitions for February 2016 has highlights all over the map. The big under-the-radar hit you’ll want to see is Dope, the coming-of-age movie thatrocked the Sundance film […]
Continue readingTop 5: Romantic movies for the disaffected
Valentine’s Day is an arbitrary holiday designed to exploit relationship insecurities to prop up the floral and greeting card industries… so let’s try to undermine the holiday while still celebrating it. Yay, it’s Valentine’s Day on Sunday! Romantic comedies tend to tell milquetoast, often sociopathic stories based in Hollywood ideas romance; you can find plenty […]
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