Stay Cool, Stay Put and Watch 'Til You Drop with Binge Boxes
Nothing brings relief from the summer heat like watching your favorite movie in the comfort of your cool home with a cool drink. Unless it’s binge watching six of your favorite movies. And now you can do that with a single checkout from the library.
Introducing: Binge Boxes.
The library just stocked boxes of four to six movies, and each Binge Box is based on a common theme or genre such as comedy or drama. You can find the sets at thelibrary.org/catalog by searching Binge Box, or the name of the set, or the individual movie. Checkouts are for two weeks.
“We thought that they would be a nice addition for those viewers that binge watch or want some thematic sets,” says Collection Services Manager Lisa Sampley. Midwest Tape is the company that named and packaged each Binge Box theme.
The library’s Binge Box topics include: Dude, Where’s My Comedy? and includes the DVD movies “Dude, Where’s My Car?” “Pineapple Express,” “Super Troopers,” “Half Baked,” “The Big Lebowski,” and “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.”
Another theme is Not on My Street, with the movies “Poltergeist,” “House” “The Amityville Horror” and “Paranormal Activity.”
Other box themes include Mob Hits; Pasta Cowboys; Didn’t See That Coming (includes “Fight Club” and “Atomic Blonde); Somethin’ Sappy (includes “The Notebook”; and ‘80s Imagination Movies (a la “The Goonies,” “Beetlejuice” and “Ghostbusters.”
Binge Boxes are available on a trial basis to see how you like them.
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Looking for other favorite movies and TV shows? The Hallmark Channel is celebrating its Christmas in July series, “Keepsake Christmas” July 12-July 27. But you can check out a variety of binge-worthy Hallmark made-for-TV movies from the library’s collection. (They’re not Binge Boxes; you can mix and match from our shelves.)
Consider these Hallmark shows: “Cedar Cove,” seasons 1-3; “Chesapeake Shores,” seasons 1-3; and the entire series “When Calls the Heart.”
Hallmark, which makes movies based on books, is now publishing print and audiobooks based on its movies. Look in the library’s collection for “Love at the Shore,” “A Down Home Christmas,” and, on order, “Gingerbread Romance.”
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