The 5 Most Horrifyingly Wasteful Film Shoots

John Cohen — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:55:09 -0800

The 5 Most Horrifyingly Wasteful Film Shoots.

And they're off to the races...

Joe Beese — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:49:11 -0800

Andrew O'Hehir, writing for Salon.com, called Secretariat: "A gorgeous, creepy American myth". Roger Ebert described O'Hehir's review as "insane". O'Hehir responds.

What we need now is a database of internet movie databases

filthy light thief — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:49:36 -0800

In the beginning, there was text. The early users of the internet looked upon it and saw that it was good. They used e-mail and also communicated with each other via Usenet, a series of bulletin/discussion boards shared across various networks and the internet. But that was the old way, and open databases are the new way. The best known movie database, IMDB, will turn 20 on October 17, 2010, but for some enthusiasts, it's not detailed enough. Were you wondering exactly what weaponry was shown in that episode of Mail Call? Check the page on IMFDb, a wiki catalog of guns in movies. Having debates over what was said in the Book of Eli? There's a Database for that. Perhaps you're a fan of vespas or Hudsons? The Internet Movie Car Database can satisfy your interests. And don't forget to check the Internet Game Car Database, or the other sites linked from IMCDb, including the database for movie car chases (mentioned previously, twice). Soundtrack Collector, Soundtrack Info, and Sounds Familiar have (you guessed it) information on soundtracks. Not related to movies: Internet Broadway Database, the official source for Broadway Information. The Internet Theatre Database is a similar site, though in need of maintenance, and may have a sketchy advertisement agreement with an online pharmacy. Limited sites: * Car Stars of Film and Television, with web design stuck in the late 1990s * Movie Posters DB is built by user uploads, but downloads require credits that you get by uploading or paying real money. * Cinema Poster Archive has a good collection of old posters, but none are very large-scale * Pick at the details of type choices in movies with Typecasting and Son of Typecasting, covered previously * Animalographies are a list of biographies of famous animals movies, TV and commercials * Soundtrack.net has some stories behind soundtracks, for hours of tangential distractions (previously three times) * if you're looking for more history, check IMDB's page for the celebration of its 15th anniversary. For more nostalgia, here's the IMDB FAQ from 1997, and a review of IMDB from it's humble beginnings as personal database to keep track of the thousands of movies then 23 year old Col Needham had seen.

Surreality

squalor — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:21:24 -0800

The most effective Surreality is that which is entirely Unintentional (15-minute Google video). A delightful balance between amusing & disturbing. Harvested from Doctor Macro's MGM Shorts page. Previously.

Kill Willy?

risenc — Tue, 03 Sep 2002 10:30:29 -0800

Kill Willy? The headline of this CNN story is a bit of hyperbole, since it's just one guy advocating euthenasia. But it's depressing enough that Keiko, the orca from the "Free Willy" films who was later released into the wild, has recently appeared on the Norwegian coast, apparently looking for human contact after getting dissed by his killer-whale brethren. God ...

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The 5 Most Horrifyingly Wasteful Film Shoots

And they're off to the races...

What we need now is a database of internet movie databases

Surreality

Kill Willy?