Earth Day is Monday, April 22, but you can celebrate our planet all month long with Queens Library, including at our weeklong film festival (see below).  Earth Week Green Film Festival April 20—27 at Queens Library at Astoria, Broadway, Steinway, Sunnyside and Woodside Catch…
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The houses in Moonrise Kingdom look like advent calendars, tiny compartments filled with toys. There are bird costumes and a raccoon cap and an ancient phonograph that runs on batteries. You can see every room, because the camera never stops moving, as though the director, Wes…
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Though Peter Jackson’s new film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, based on the book The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, is one way to experience the wonderful world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, you can also explore it right here on the Queens Library website.Should you…
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The classic film Casablanca—ranked number three on the American Film Institute’s list of the top 100 movies—celebrates its 70th anniversary this year and you can mark the occasion in a variety of ways with Queens Library, starting this weekend with a free screening of the film…
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“Hi, I’m Bob.” This was the opening to my short-lived, recurring segment on Ha! (the cable TV station that eventually merged with The Comedy Channel to form Comedy Central).That series of short sketches was called “Bob, the Video Guy” and in 30 seconds I would review an entire…
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