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What a Horrible Night to Have a Crush
Some romances involve sunlit walks on the beach and morning coffee dates. Other love stories are set under the pall of night, with mysterious strangers lured by longing into a strange demimonde. Perhaps some aren’t romances at all, but tales of obsessive lust or heartbroken tragedies. This Halloween season, we’re highlighting horror movies featuring romantic […]
9/24/2026
1:14PM
Venture into the Unknown (via Movies)!
New living situations. New cultures. Routines and demands that are heretofore alien to you. A new school year can feel like a journey into a different world, so our latest movie display centers people encountering lands and entities wholly unknown to them. Sometimes they are whisked into a realm beyond imagination; sometimes they discover an […]
8/5/2026
12:57PM
Get Some Celluloid in Your Literature!
Plenty of movies are adaptations: of short stories, plays, novels, TV shows, novellas, even video games. This month, we’re highlighting movies in our collection that are adaptations of literature. You’ll find faithful adaptation that hew closely to the original, as well as films that deviate wildly from the source material. Two of the three(!) movies […]
3/23/2026
5:32PM
Uncover Cinematic Family Secrets
Many a movie concerns a family in crisis. Some families are seemingly happy but are undermined by long-kept secrets and grudges. Others are thrown into turmoil by unexpected revelations. This month, we will be highlighting family dramas that run the gamut of dysfunction, from the extraordinary to the painfully real. Both of the movies we […]
2/24/2026
11:21AM