I don’t cry very often at movies, except for one, glaring reason. If someone snuffs it due to tuberculosis (aka Consumption), I will ugly cry. Not a couple of poignant tears, but full-on weeping. It doesn’t matter how bad the movie is, I will bawl my eyes out. Unfortunately for me, TB is a popular […]
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Five Films Featuring…Shaving Cream
Ok, so if you know me at all, you already know what the punchline is going to be. But shaving serves all kinds of purposes in movies. There’s something about the obscuring/revealing in shaving that directors really love. And it’s omnipresent…like, this doesn’t even count all the bathroom cabinets that open to reveal shaving cream, […]
Continue readingFive Films Featuring…Characters Hanging Upside Down
This week, we’re taking a look at five different scenes in which characters hang upside down. I’m sure there’s some bigger philosophical point to be made about inversion as in Alice in Wonderland, about the ways in which hanging upside down represents helplessness–to the ideal of beauty? to a torturer? to love?–for the characters, or […]
Continue readingFive Films Featuring…Bad Things Happening To Bunnies
It’s Easter, and I love all the junk that goes with Easter including all the adorable bunny themed everything. That said, for this week we’re doing Five Films Featuring…Bad Things Happening To Bunnies. Bunnies probably represent innocence or something, which might be why they’re so heartbreakingly mutilated in movies. 1. What’s Opera, Doc (HU DVD 12736, […]
Continue readingFive Films Featuring…One Actor Playing Two Roles In The Same Frame…PART TWO!!!
Oh my gosh, this one was so popular that I’m actually going to do an update. Here, according to our staff, are yet MORE movies featuring one actor playing two roles in the same frame, though we’ll just have to trust our collective memory on this one, because I can’t find pictures for some: Scott […]
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Certain members of the media services team are completely addicted to Counterpart, so for this week’s Five Films Featuring we’ve got…a single actor playing two roles in the same frame. 1. The Parent Trap (HU DVD 5305) Ummm…annoyingly, we only have the Lindsay Lohan version of this movie. BUT Natasha Richardson was one of my first […]
Continue readingFive Films Featuring…the Bradbury Building
This week’s Five Films Featuring comes from Media/Tech teammate Kit Crawford! Take it away Kit! *** Watching movies is not just about what goes on with the characters on the screen, but can sometimes be just as enthralling with what goes on the in the background. Considering how much is CGI these days in film […]
Continue readingFive Films Featuring…A Musical Number (but not in a musical)
I personally love musicals, but I accept that the adorkability of, say, the ever under-appreciated Donald O’Connor is not every viewer’s cup of tea. Musical numbers make appearances in films for a variety of reasons, from romantic to ridiculous. Here are Five Films Featuring toe tapping ditties in films that are NOT musicals. 1. (500) […]
Continue readingFive Films Featuring…Precarious Babies
This week’s Five Films comes from Sean Casey, our Media Services Manager! Commentary by Tara, who has been thinking a lot about infant mortality. Why do they have to arrive like 25% done? They can’t even hold their own heads up. It’s like they’re designed to die. Child endangerment is no laughing matter, but shows […]
Continue readingFive Films Featuring…A Rain of Animals
Wow, so I did not know there was a term for animals falling from the sky, but apparently it’s called a “Rain of Animals” and it’s a real thing. To justify the several hours I spent reading about this phenomenon during my work day, here’s Five Films Featuring…A Rain of Animals. 1. Magnolia (HU DVD […]
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