Michael Hoskin

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Gender Male
Industry Museums or Libraries
Occupation Acquisitions
Location Canada
Introduction Librarian by day, comic book scholar by night. I blog about comic books, films, books and old-time radio.
Favorite Movies The Third Man, All Quiet on the Western Front, Citizen Kane, Notorious, Rear Window, Casablanca, the Maltese Falcon, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Glory, Duck Soup, It Happened One Night, Avatar, Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan, Star Trek 6: the Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: First Contact, Hoop Dreams, Gettysburg, the Thin Blue Line, the Empire Strikes Back, Batman Begins, the Dark Knight, WALL-E, the Incredibles, Magic, the Adventures of Robin Hood, Bringing up Baby, Three Comrades, Fantasia, the Grapes of Wrath, the Great Dictator, the Philadelphia Story, How Green Was My Valley, Dark City, Leon: the Professional, the Magnificent Ambersons, To Be or Not to Be, Yankee Doodle Dandy, the Ox-Bow Incident, the Great Escape, Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, Arsenic and Old Lace, It's a Wonderful Life, the Killers, Miracle on 34th Street, Scrooge, Rope, High Noon, Ikiru, the Seven Samurai, On the Waterfront, 12 Angry Men, the One That Got Away, Paths of Glory, Vertigo, Psycho, the Birds, North by Northwest, Our Man in Havana, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Wait Until Dark, Deliverance, Murder by Death, the Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know it, Being There, the Chosen, Das Boot, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, a Christmas Story, Aliens, Nausicaa, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Star Trek 4: the Voyage Home, the Untouchables, Frantic, Grave of the Fireflies, Bulworth, Pi, Fight Club, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Serenity, Batman Beyond: the Return of the Joker, the Lives of Others, Persepolis, Ratatouille, Iron Man, Up
Favorite Books Stars My Destination, Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, 39 Steps, Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, John MacNab, Sick Heart River, Wizard's Tale, Man Who Was Thursday, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Red Badge of Courage, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, Pickwick Papers, Hound of the Baskervilles, Lost World, Third Man, Brave New World, Great Divorce, Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Screwtape Letters, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, 1984, Animal Farm, Interman, All Quiet on the Western Front, Spark of Life, Three Comrades, Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, Frankenstein, Bookhunter, Of Mice and Men, Treasure Island, Dracula, Deepness in the Sky, Rainbows End, War of the Worlds, Day of the Triffids, Long Way Gone, My Autobiography, Shake Hands With the Devil, Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics, Dreams Our Stuff is Made of, On the Air, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, Diary of a Young Girl, It Only Hurts When I Laugh, Brave New World Revisited, Film Encyclopedia, Mere Christianity, Understanding Comics, A Year at the Movies, Book of Lists, Footnotes in Gaza, Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, Al Williamson's Flash Gordon: A Lifelong Vision of the Fantastic, Smithsonian Book of Comics, Maus, Cross and the Switchblade, Orthodox Heretic, Zulu, Sword and Scalpel, Persepolis, Hitchcock