Film

The internet provides many sources of information on films that will satisfy the most exacting film buff. The weekend moviegoer will find movie reviews, theater locations, and show times. Parents can assess the suitability of a given movie or video for their children. The most obscure movie trivia question can be answered - Who played Pardner in the 1969 movie version of the musical "Paint Your Wagon"? Go to the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/), type in Paint Your Wagon in the search engine, and up pops the complete cast. It was Clint Eastwood (he sings!). One reviewers comment about the movie: "... the lumbering, off-key musical still manages to be appealing despite doing almost everything wrong".

One op-ed page of the New York Times had columnist Maureen Dowd comparing Hillary and Bill to both the couple (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner) in "War of the Roses" and the married hit men (Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner) in "Prizzi's Honor". Forgotten the plots? Just go to the web.

Movie Reviews and Databases

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
www.imdb.com
Information on over 250,000 movies made since the early days of cinema and information on over 500,000 actors and actresses, nearly 50,000 directors, over 70,000 writers and a wide variety of others involved in a particular movie including producers, gofers, and gaffers. The site provides plot summaries, reviews, studio stills, and for the most recent movies, video trailers, clips, and interviews.

Ebert of the Chicago-Sun Times
www.suntimes.com/ebert
Roger Ebert movie reviews. One of the best reviewers on the web. The remaining half of "Siskel & Ebert" of TV fame.

Boston Phoenix Movie Site
www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/movies
Reviews, links to theater listings (Boston, Cambridge, suburbs), film specials (Museum of Fine Arts, French Library, Harvard Film Archive, Boston Public Library, and others)

Kids-In-Mind
www.kids-in-mind.com
This site rates movies for parents. Current movies are featured but the site has a large database of past movies. The three numbers (each from 0 to 10) after each title represent the level of sex, violence, and profanity the movie contains. Unlike the MPAA (The Motion Picture Association of America), a single, age-specific rating is not assigned.

IMDb's 100 Worst Movies
www.us.imdb.com/bottom_100_films
For the film buff.

Filmfestivals.com
www.filmfestivals.com
Find film festivals anywhere in the world.

Reel Classics
www.reelclassics.com
Classic movies - actors, actresses, directors, movie summaries.

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