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Family Is What You Make of It
Movies not infrequently feature characters with irregular family or living situations. Orphans, exiles, runaways, and so forth. For this month’s display, we’ll be featuring films with characters who, by circumstance or choice, forge connections with people or animals beyond their biological parents/children. You can see this theme even in our movie nights for November. First, […]
11/2/2026
11:51AM
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