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The United States Will Have an Official Library of Stupid: Thoughts About the Upcoming Presidential Library

June 18, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

When George W Bush graduated from president school to become an artist, a lot of us in the library community joked that his official library would be full of all the Crayola doodles of Chaney and dicks. For the current administration, there's less jokes because of all the horrifying and stupid and horrifyingly stupid things the man does on a near constant basis. Thinking about that presidential library, what it will house and where it will be and what it will be a monument to, gives me a sick feeling.

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June 18, 2025 /Banned Library
Donald Trump, Presidential Library
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Ballerina (2025) danced into my heart oh no that's a knife

June 16, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews, Weekly

Sliding down to my seat a little late for the film, I forced a mother to move away from her husband to sit by her children. She was in my seat. I was not just breaking up parental date nights at a violent action movie for the fun of it just because. This time.

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June 16, 2025 /Banned Library
Ballerina, John Wick, 2025, Len Wiseman, Shay Hatten, Derek Kolstad, Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane
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To the Class of 2025: Fuck all Y'all

June 04, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

The following is a transcript of a valedictorian speech given to the Banned Library School of Mad Library Science graduates of 2025 by Jessie Marlborough on May 30, 2025.

Hi everybody, including the dean, The Director, faculty, staff, and my fellow students. Thanks for coming to my graduation.

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June 04, 2025 /Banned Library
commencement, valedictorian, LAIbrary
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To the Class of 2025: Don't Forget Your Radiation Suit

June 02, 2025 by Banned Library in Weekly

A transcript of a commencement speech given to the Banned Library School of Mad Library Science graduates of 2025 given by The Director on May 30, 2025.

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June 02, 2025 /Banned Library
commencement, Banned Library School, Mad Library Science, LAIbrary
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Thunderbolts* (2025)

May 16, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

Successful Marvel properties (comics, movies, toilet paper, etc) center on the characters. The plot, humor, action, all of it in the best they offer is driven by the characters and their motivations. Since Endgame, Marvel has struggled to pull together compelling characters that propel good plots. Thunderbolts gets the studio back on track, yet much of the meta-story shows they have not learned that much.

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May 16, 2025 /Banned Library
Thunderbolts, 2025, Marvel, Jake Schreier, Eric Pearson, Joanna Calo, Kurt Busiek, Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Night of the Hunter (1955)

May 14, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

The old Universal horror movies like Wolfman and Creature from the Black Lagoon get more love as trendsetting genre films rather than as quality pictures, but Night of the Hunter homages their stark black and white images with a more horrible creature than they ever could have conceived. A beautiful film that did not get its due back in the day, Night of the Hunter is fucking awesome.

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May 14, 2025 /Banned Library
Night of the Hunter, 1955, Southern Gothic, Charles Laughton, Davis Grubb, James Agee, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
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Black Snake Moan (2007)

May 12, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

I saw this movie in the theater when it was released and remembered two things: the chain and the nudity. The rest kinda floated away on a cloud of booze and hundreds of other movies released that year, and it was not a good year for movies. What I did not remember was the musical about trauma and healing that Black Snake Moan becomes.

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May 12, 2025 /Banned Library
Black Snake Moan, 2007, Craig Brewer, Christina Ricci, Samuel L Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Southern Gothic
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Southern Comfort (1981)

May 09, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

Having seen that life close up for half my life as well as living in the bayou of Louisiana for a time, Southern Comfort is an accurate depiction of the effectiveness of the National Guard.

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May 09, 2025 /Banned Library
Southern Comfort, 1981, Walter Hill, Michael Kane, David Giler, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Southern Gothic
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Reflecting Skin (1990)

May 07, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

Spending time with people tends to bring out all those little eccentricities, but in the case of Reflecting Skin it brings out all the dark, weird shit swirling beneath.

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May 07, 2025 /Banned Library
Reflecting Skin, 1990, Philip Ridley, Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Southern Gothic
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Mud (2012)

May 05, 2025 by Banned Library

Romance is best left to those that go in with an open heart and an open mind. Close either one and you have a relationship, but one with no passion or no devotion. No trust in the thing you share with another. I'm rambling, but Mud's characters hold love as an absolute that can be dwindled until they realize it is something that can be grown.

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May 05, 2025 /Banned Library
Mud, 2012, Jeff Nichols, Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Sam Shepard, Reese Witherspoon, Ray McKinnon, Sarah Paulson, Michael Shannon, Joe Don Baker, Southern Gothic
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Sinners (2025)

May 02, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

A deep southern gothic musical vampire movie, Sinners is about how failure and success are thrust up on you by the simple choices you make, even one as simple as letting go or holding on to a guitar. Get a handkerchief to wipe away the sweat of the hot summer sun and turn on some blues while we talk about this titanic film.

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May 02, 2025 /Banned Library
Sinners, 2025, Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Miles CAton, Saul Williams, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Delroy Lindo, Hailee Steinfeld, Southern Gothic
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Black Bag (2025)

April 30, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

How much do you trust your partner? Are you a spy? Do those two questions make you uncomfortable? Love and trust form the chewy center of Black Bag's hard candy shell of pop music and spy intrigue.

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April 30, 2025 /Banned Library
Black Bag, 2025, Steven Soderbergh, David Koepp, Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgard, Cate Blanchett
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In Bruges (2008)

April 28, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

With a gun, it's as easy as pushing a button and seeing a man fall. What that does to someone is a whole other ball of blood, though.

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April 28, 2025 /Banned Library
In Bruges, 2008, Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciaran Hinds, Ralph Fiennes
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The Wonder (2022)

April 25, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

The Wonder sets out right front in telling the audience that they are watching fiction, a trickery, yet does that make it real?

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April 25, 2025 /Banned Library
Wonder, 2022, Sebastian Lelio, Emma Donoghue, Alice Birch, Florence Pugh, Tom Burke, Kila Lord Cassidy
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The Commitments (1991)

April 11, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

The main issue of The Commitments is not the drive or talent of the band being formed, but the fact that they are almost a dozen people. Jimmy (Robert Arkins) formed the group to play damn good soul music and for the most part the people do that.

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April 11, 2025 /Banned Library
Commitments, 1991, Alan Parker, Roddy Doyle, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball
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Byzantium (2012)

April 09, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

Neil Jordan's Byzantium updates his earlier work on Interview with a Vampire, telling the story of a vampire mother and daughter finding a place in the world.

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April 09, 2025 /Banned Library
Byzantium, 2012, Neil Jordan, Moria Buffini, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Daniel Mays, Johnnie Lee Miller
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Secret of Kells (2009)

April 07, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

Secret of Kells exemplifies that life changing feeling of art and culture. Brendan, a young monk, lives in a small monastery his uncle, the abbot, is fortifying against the oncoming Viking hoard.

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April 07, 2025 /Banned Library
Secret of Kells, 2009, Nora Twomey, Tomm Moore, Fabrice Ziolkowski, Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson, Mick Lally, Christen Mooney
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Magdalene Sisters (2002)

April 04, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

For over two hundred years, the Magdalene laundries in Ireland operated by taking in young women deemed to have loose morals. The women were slave labor in the laundries, often run by the Catholic church but with state sanction, only released by death or the signatures of two adult men.

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April 04, 2025 /Banned Library
Magdalene Sisters, Peter Mullan, 2002, Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff, Geraldine McEwan
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The Quiet Girl (2022)

April 02, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

"You don't have to say anything. There's many a person missed the chance to not say anything, and lost much by it."

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April 02, 2025 /Banned Library
Colm Bairéad, Claire Keegan, Catherine Clinch, Andrew Bennett, Carrie Crowley
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Eurotrip (2004) I wish I had taken

March 31, 2025 by Banned Library in Reviews

Twenty years ago, the best "not real" song from a movie was released. "Scotty Doesn't Know" may or may not have rocketed up the charts (I didn't care enough to look) with its pop-punk message about fucking another guy's girlfriend. The movie that delivered us this gem, Eurotrip, was also released because that's how time works. Get your shit together, reader.

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March 31, 2025 /Banned Library
Eurotrip, 2004, Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, National Lampoon, European Vacation, American Pie, Travis Wester, Joanna Lumley
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