Film as Literature

*Short of the Week - www.shortoftheweek.com

*Films and Books - http://filmsandbooks.com/

* Film as Literature Wiki - Film Wiki

*Roger Ebert’s Site: Roger Ebert

*American Film Institute: www.afi.com

* AFI’s List of Top Movies: http://www.afi.com/100years/

*Watch films by the National Film Board - http://www.nfb.ca/explore-by/title/

*Make movies here at One True Media www.onetruemedia.com

*Make animations with www.goaniamte.com

1 IMDb.com

The Internet Movie Database is the web’s best film resource, with extensive and trustworthy credits for tens of thousands of titles. It’s also good at collating film journalism: click on the “External reviews” button to bring up links to hundreds of online reviews from magazines and newspapers.

2 RottenTomatoes.com

Want a quick idea of the merit of a new release? Rotten Tomatoes gives films a percentage score aggregated from dozens of professional reviewers, with links to the source material. Great for the big titles but patchy on non-Hollywood releases.

3 EmpireOnline.com

The site of the UK’s biggest-selling movie magazine has a good contacts book (Steven Spielberg guest-edited a recent edition of Empire). The many quizzes, news stories and blogs are imbued with some refreshingly spiky British humour.

4 BoxOfficeMojo.com

This statto’s dream collates the box-office takings of the 75 highest-grossing films in the USA into a huge, searchable database. Whether you want to discover the biggest single-day opening (The Dark Knight; $67m) or the worst per-theatre average weekly take (Proud American, $128), this is the place.

5 AintItCool.com

No prizes for its design, but Ain’t It Cool is the best site for sneak previews and fan criticism. Avoid the messageboards, which are like roomfuls of screaming teenagers.

6 Hollywood.com

A huge American site that features movie news, top 10 lists, film clips, interviews and more. Particularly useful for its links to hundreds of fan sites.

7 SimplyScripts.com

Download the screenplays of hundreds of well-known films, as well as early drafts and sometimes even scans of the original scripts complete with handwritten amendments made during shooting.

8 ScreenDaily.com

The website of Screen International, the British film trade magazine, makes a welcome change from the Hollywood emphasis of most movie sites. Particularly strong on international box-office takings, reviews of art-house titles and festival news.

9 Apple.com/trailers

The best selection of film trailers and teasers online, many in high definition. You will need to download the latest version of Apple’s QuickTime software to play them.

10 Flixster.com

Flixster combines social networking with film geekiness. Registered users can post reviews and chat about films; the site also has numerous quizzes, news, trailers and more.

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Movies we have viewed, currently viewing, or will view:

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Tron (1982)

King Kong (1933)

King Kong (2005)

Super Size Me

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters