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National Podcast Day: The Interview Is the Raw MaterialJack Kerouac Day: The Scroll and the Last AddressRobert E. Howard Day: The Texan Who Built ConanHarper Lee Day: The Draft Her Editor Saw ThroughHarry Potter’s Birthday: The Book Twelve Publishers MissedTell a Fairy Tale Day: The Stories Everybody EditedKurt Vonnegut Day: The Book That Took Twenty YearsSuperman Day: The $130 Contract Behind the CapeMaya Angelou Day: The Dare That Became a MemoirInternational Translation Day: The Invisible AuthorsJohn Steinbeck Day: The Reporter Who Wrote the NovelRaymond Chandler Day: The Novelist Who Started at FiftyEncourage a Young Writer Day: The Adult Who Read the PagesF. Scott Fitzgerald Day: The Masterpiece That FloppedInternational Literacy Day: The Readers Books LoseGene Roddenberry Day: The Pilot Who Pitched the StarsIan Fleming Day: Two Thousand Words a MorningFyodor Dostoevsky Day: The Novels Written Against the ClockElmore Leonard Day: Leave Out the Part Readers SkipEmily Dickinson Day: The Poems in the DrawerAlice’s Day: The Story Told on a Rowing BoatStephen King Day: The Daily Two ThousandZora Neale Hurston Day: The Ear She TrainedNational Library Lovers Month: The Building a Town Pays ForBack to the Future Day: The Script Where Everything Pays OffRoald Dahl Day: Six Pencils and a Grudge Against Grown-UpsElmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, and Which Ones I BreakShould Your Novel Have a Prologue? When a Cold Open Earns Its Place“People Who Use AI Deserve to Be Castrated”: When the Sentence Outruns the CrimeHow Famous Memoirs Were Really Written: What the Collaborators DidThe Sage of SagittariusThe Bell JarCampus BattlefieldRadioLifeL.L. Bean: The Making of an American IconA World at Arms: A Global History of World War IIShattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of MidwayOpen: An AutobiographyPa’anIt Doesn’t Take a HeroLove’s Executioner and Other Tales of PsychotherapyA Tiger among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam’s A Shau ValleyThe Columbia Restaurant: Celebrating a Century of History, Culture, and CuisineThe Library BookThe Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st CenturyFlorida RoadkillAmerican SoldierThe MAGA DoctrineStop, in the Name of God

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Filming Location: New Jersey

Films in this library shot in New Jersey, the state that hosted American film before Hollywood existed, and still works constantly. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.

Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan in a purple outfit with glowing light effects around her hands in a Jersey City setting.

Ms. Marvel (2022) Review

Ms. Marvel (2022) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The family material and the Partition episode belong to a genuinely good show, and they are surrounded by a superhero origin whose purpose is to place a character…

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Friday the 13th (1980)

Counselors at a summer camp reopening after a drowning tragedy are stalked and killed by an unseen attacker. Cunningham's 1980 American slasher film depicting counselors at a summer camp reopening after a child's drowning tragedy who are stalked and killed…

The Amityville Horror (1979) film poster

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Amityville Horror is Stuart Rosenberg's 1979 American horror film depicting the Lutz family who move into a Long Island house where a mass murder occurred the previous year, and the supernatural events that allegedly drive them out twenty-eight days…

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Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

Soderbergh's 2001 Rat Pack remake. Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Roberts, Gould.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) film poster

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Michel Gondry's 2004 memory erasure romance. Practical effects, beach erosion.

A Bronx Tale (1993) film poster

A Bronx Tale (1993)

Robert De Niro's 1993 directorial debut. Father versus neighborhood gangster for boy's loyalty.

Donnie Brasco (1997) film poster

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Mike Newell's 1997 undercover FBI drama. Donnie Brasco is Mike Newell's 1997 American crime drama.

Once Upon a Time in America (1984) film poster

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Sergio Leone's 1984 final film. New York Jewish gangsters across five decades.

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Mean Girls (2004)

Mark Waters' 2004 high school satire. Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams.

The Color of Money (1986) film poster

The Color of Money (1986)

Scorsese's 1986 Hustler sequel. Paul Newman returns as Fast Eddie alongside Tom Cruise.

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The Wrestler (2008)

Aronofsky's 2008 professional wrestling drama. Aging body as central content.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) film poster

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

2012 Christopher Nolan finale to his Batman trilogy. Christian Bale, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman.