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April 03, 2006Hypnotic Drag N' Drop DVD Suggestion Service
Okay, here's my occasional e-commerce site writeup: WatchThisNext, at http://www.watchthisnext.com/. It provides DVD listings, you drag them and drop them into three buckets: love it, loath it, didn't see it/don't care. I don't watch a lot of movies or DVDs,...
Continue reading "Hypnotic Drag N' Drop DVD Suggestion Service" » December 29, 2005Catalog of Movie Script Holdings Now Available
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a searchable online catalog of 30,000 motion picture scripts available for research at six southern California collections. It's available at http://scriptlist.oscars.org. You may search the database by several different factors,...
Continue reading "Catalog of Movie Script Holdings Now Available" » December 20, 2005Internet Movie Database Offers Keywords Analyzer
If you were to ask me to name the top ten Internet sites I use a lot more than I think I would, the Internet Movie Database would come up near the top. Now they're offering a new tool for...
Continue reading "Internet Movie Database Offers Keywords Analyzer" » December 07, 2004Georgia Tech Offers Moving Image Collection Project
Georgia Tech now has a project to catalog and in some cases offer moving images from collections around the world. The initial rollout is available at http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/ . There are two search offerings here; a search for collections and a...
Continue reading "Georgia Tech Offers Moving Image Collection Project" » September 20, 2004Big Collection of Roger Ebert Movie Reviews
For someone who counts herself lucky if she manages to see one movie a year, I find myself fascinated with movie reviews. Now I have a giant archive of reviews to go through as the Chicago Sun-Times gives Roger Ebert...
Continue reading "Big Collection of Roger Ebert Movie Reviews" » August 13, 2004A Catalog of Video Movie Title Screens
I love the Internet. Where else are you going to get a catalog of the title screens of over 2800 movies? It's available at http://www.shillpages.com/movies/ . The listings here are in browsable alphabetically. I don't see a keyword search (rats!)...
June 11, 2004Mercedes In the Movies
Like cars? Great. Like Mercedes? Even better, because you're going to love Mercedes in the Movies, which features almost 450 reviews of movies which contain Mercedes. It's at http://www.hampstead.com.au/mb/index.php . The front page has the 30 most popular and the...
May 14, 2004Classic Horror Movies In a Big Ol' Set of Reviews
We all have different levels of scary movies that we can tolerate. If you're into serious scary, lots of horror, whatever you want to call it, check out Classic-Horror at http://www.classic- horror.com/, which describes itself as "Reviewing the History of...
Continue reading "Classic Horror Movies In a Big Ol' Set of Reviews" » November 28, 2003Helicopters in Film and Television
I have a friend who really likes helicopters. This link is for him. If you're looking for a site that tracks the appearance of helicopters in movies and television, you're looking for Rotary Action at http://www.rotaryaction.com/ . The front page...
October 05, 2003Ghostbusters Props
Ghostbusters fan? Apparently you're not the only one. Get the skinny on how to equip for some 'bustin' at http://www.gbprops.com/ . There are over 250 props on this site (nice design, by the way.) Categories for props are on the...
September 26, 2003Official Movie Web Sites
Wondering where the official site for a movie is? Check out http://www.movietarget.com/ . This one-page list (I must be on a one-page site kick again) shows movie titles in alphabetical order (from A.I. to Zoolander). Official sites open in a...
July 18, 2003Horror Movies and Horror Links
Carfax Abbey ( http://www.carfax-abbey.com/ ) is a site that offers both a database of over 550 horror films and a link section with over 150 links to horror film sites. There are several ways to view film information. You can...
July 09, 2003Foreign Films
Foreign Films (http://www.foreignfilms.com/) is, as you'd expect, a Web site about foreign films, but there's plenty of extra stuff too. Current news is listed down the middle column. In the right column, you will see what is new in theaters,...
June 20, 2003New Search for Oscar Winners
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revamped their database of Oscar winners, which is now available at http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/. Choose Search on the left and you'll get a search page where you can search for titles, nominee names,...
June 02, 2003New York Times Launches Movies Section
The New York Times announced last week the launch of http://movies.nytimes.com. This site contains 20 years' worth of reviews in addition to a variety of other movie- related content. Wow, there's a lot of stuff on this front page.. where...
March 13, 2003Bruce Lee Links
Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Bruce Lee! Or is that Sara Lee? I can never remember. Anyway, Someone likes Bruce Lee enough to put up BruceLeeLinks.com ( http://www.bruceleelinks.com/ ). There are several link categories here, presented...
February 20, 2003Hong Kong Movie Database
If the Internet Movie Database doesn't quite do it for you, check out the Hong Kong Movie Database at http://www.hkmdb.com/ . As you might guess, it's a site devoted to information on Hong Kong movies. It's set up a...
January 15, 2003We've Got Movie Sign!
You might glance at CinemaSpot ( http://www.cinemaspot.com ) and think it's just a one-page reference source, but take a closer look and realize that there's a wealth of information coming from the index on the left side of the...
December 07, 2002Monster Movie Database
This isn't the biggest database in the world, but if you like monster movies, and especially monsters, check out Great Monster Movies, at http://www.whalefish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ . Not everything here fits my definition of a monster movie (Akira?) but the collection overall...
June 13, 2002007 Database
I know very little about James Bond, so I can't come up with a good pun. Instead I'll just say check out the James Bond database at http://www.007database.com/ . The front page has news about a James Bond movie in...
June 06, 2002Movie Title Screens -- The Database
Oh, I love the Internet. Check out http://www.shillpages.com/movies/ ; it's a collection of over 1700 title screens for movies and videos. Unfortunately I do not see a search engine here; you have to browse the collection of screens alphabetically. Click...
January 31, 2002Toss a Tomato, Sling a Posy
I don't even know why I'm reviewing this site -- the last movie I saw in the theater was Twin Dragons. But I do read the occasional movie review. If they're your kind of thing you'll get plenty of content...
January 02, 2002Find Movie Reviews At Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes ( http://www.rottentomatoes.com/) is a search engine for movie reviews. There are about a gabillion reviews here for about a gabillion movies, and its navigation makes it easy to use. Start with the front page. You'll find capsule information...
December 12, 2001Internet Movie Database Launches Pro Version
The Internet Movie Database ( http://www.imdb.com) launched a pay version, IMDbPro.com ( http://www.imdbpro.com) last week. This pay version will cost $12.95 monthly with 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month subscription discounts (a year's subscription is $99.95.) Aimed at people in the entertainment...
Continue reading "Internet Movie Database Launches Pro Version" » September 26, 2001So Was That Movie Any Good or What?
Wondering about a particular movie? Check out the Movie Review Query Engine at http://www.mrqe.com/ . This site indexes over 200,000 reviews from a variety of places. Searching for "Pippi Longstocking" brought up two titles, one with 4 reviews and one...
September 11, 2001Movies From a Different Perspective
Most movie information sites provide information from the consumer's viewpoint -- they're concerned with who the actors and actresses are, etc. SoundSpeed Movie Database at http://www.soundspeedmovie.com/database/ , approaches movies from a different perspective. It's a database of movies' production information....
May 23, 2001Amazon Offers Current Movie Information
Last week Amazon announced a service on their site which provides visitors with current movie information localized by zip code. To get to the site, go to http://www.amazon.com and click on the "In Theaters" link on the left side of...
Continue reading "Amazon Offers Current Movie Information" » April 26, 2001The Film Box Office Database
The Film Box Office Database ( http://www.boxofficeguru.com/film.htm) won't win any beauty contests, but it is chock-full of box-office stats from over 2,000 films between 1989 and now. It's not up-to-the-minute (the front page says it was last updated in December)...
February 16, 2001The New York Times Launches Oscars Section
The NY Times has launched a special section for coverage of the 2001 Oscars at http://www.nytim es.com/pages/movies/oscars/index.html . There are articles on the current nominees, forums for discussing the nominations, and a search engine for past winners (two drop boxes...
Continue reading "The New York Times Launches Oscars Section" » August 17, 2000The LOC Offers Films from 1894-1915
What seems to me to be one of the Library of Congress's more ambitious projects is now available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/ . It's called America at Work, America at Leisure 1894-1915. What's ambitious about this? This site includes 111 films made...
March 30, 2000ProductionHub Launches Database for Film, Video, and Digital Media
ProductionHub ( http://www.productionhub.com/ ) has announced a searchable directory of companies and individuals in film, video, and digital production. The directory currently contains 65,000 listings. The company claims the database will grow to 150,000 listings by year's end. You can...
Continue reading "ProductionHub Launches Database for Film, Video, and Digital Media" » March 22, 2000Britannica Offers Oscars Information
Britannica.com has launched a site devoted to the Oscars. The site pops up in a window with a less-annoying-than-usual Flash introduction (which can be skipped.) The left side of the screen is a Flash navigation tool which divides the...
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