Archive of Film

Epidermaography

on January 12th, 2006 in Books, Favorite Posts, Film, Librarianship, Links by | 6 Comments

It’s sweeps week here at librarian enterprises, so here’s some links about anthropodermic bindings. For those of you who were asleep during The History of Books and Printing, that’s books bound in human skin. Because if you intellectualize it, it’s not icky. (from boing boing) Speaking of books bound in…

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One sentence movie review – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

on December 3rd, 2005 in Books, Film by | 1 Comment

This movie, with its fantastic effects, original cinematography, and great directing has convinced me to forgive the franchise completely for all of those spiders in the second film. Ok, I can’t restrain myself to one sentence. Believe it or not, I liked the latest Harry Potter movie even more than…

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Two-sentence movie review: The Mummy

on October 18th, 2005 in Film by | 3 Comments

Any self-respecting librarian would commit seppuku for knocking over that many shelves of incunabulum. Self-referential bad movies are still bad movies.  

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Serenity

on October 3rd, 2005 in Film by | 5 Comments

Get thee to Serenity. It required some monumental orchestration, but we got there Saturday and spent the rest of the evening saying things like "Woah" and "Damn". Go. Go now. Then go again. Then buy the Firefly dvds in case you haven’t already. Ogod this was a cool movie. What…

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One sentence movie reviews

on June 1st, 2005 in ALA, Avenging, Film by | 1 Comment

For your summer viewing pleasure, here are some one-sentence movie reviews culled from my recent media consumption. Tune in tomorrow for two-sentence movie reviews. The Corporation: Creepy facts set to ominous music. Star Wars III: Dialog by Elmer Fudd. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Too much Arthur Dent, not…

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