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www.2spare.com
Because you have too much free time to spare.
www.aardman.com
Animated wonders Wallace & Gromit and their squishy pals.
www.angeloplessas.com/elasticenthusiastic
The best concept for an animated short film we’ve seen in a long time.
www.angryalien.com
Home of the thirty-second bunny theatre.
www.anyfilms.net
Create your own online shorts.
www.archive.org/details/classic_cartoons
Rare, impossible-to-find historic documentaries.
www.archive.org/details/movies
A wealth of digitized feature films, shorts, documentaries and classic TV.
www.archives.cbc.ca/index.asp?IDLan=1
The Canadian Broadcasting Company’s history of the world on the screen and radio.
www.atomfilms.com
Weekly releases of subversive film clips – nicely categorized.
www.badmash.tv/movies.php
Rising comics practicing side-splitting pranks on the street.
www.bbc.co.uk/films/oneminutemovies/whatisa.shtml
The BBC wants you to upload your Flash movies, digital photos or home-video projects for the world to watch.
www.bcdb.com
The animated answer to IMDB.
www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100
The British Film Institute’s roundup of Britain’s 100 best films of the 20th century.
www.bigfatinstitute.org/index_flash.html
Retro-stylized site offers deeply meaningful extensions of a brand.
www.blackfilm.com
Keeps its thumb on the pulse of black filmmakers and stars.
www.bluetights.net
It’s Superman Returns director Bryan Singer’s video filmmaking and promotional tour journals.
www.celebsafari.com
Post your own camera-phone pics of you and George Clooney at the bank.
www.channel101.com
A group of comedy writers produce new sketch shows every month.
www.channel102.net
New York’s cast of Channel 101; its shorts are screened on a public-access channel in the city.
www.chasingthefrog.com
The true origins of all those movies based on true stories, books or other media.
www.chud.com
A hardcore look at films inspired by comics and graphic novels.
www.cinematical.com
Find the right blogger to read or a topic you want to comment on?
www.cinemapremiere.com
A cool resource for the aspiring home theatre owner.
www.cinematreasures.org
The big movie palaces of the world, current and past.
www.classicmovies.org/sounds.htm
Wanna hear Tim Curry “shiver with antici…pation”?
http://comedy.aol.com/viralvideos
More viral videos, but AOL takes it one nifty step further and offers videos sent directly to your email.
www.contactmusic.com
Late-breaking entertainment news.
www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle
Ever played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
www.dailysixer.com
The six must-see sites or clips of the day.
www.davidlynch.com
Peek inside the twisted filmmaker’s brain.
www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com
Nikki Finke’s well-reported daily blog on the business of show.
www.deathbeeper.com
Get an instant email the moment the Grim Reaper visits another celeb.
www.devilducky.com
Trolls the Web for must-see video clips so you don’t have to.
www.documentaryfilms.net
An invaluable resource for documentary fans.
www.drive-ins.com
Find drive-ins all over the world
www.dvdeastereggs.com
Every hidden outtake, deleted scene or director’s inside joke on DVDs.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk
Intelligent, exhaustive DVD reporting from across the pond.
www.elementalfilms.co.uk/projectx/front_page.htm
For the digital filmmaker.
www.engio.com
Breaking directors’ short films or indie projects.
www.entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movies-channel.htm Find out what a blue screen does, how to adapt a comic for film...
www.fadeinonline.com
Go behind the scenes of the movie magazine that tells it like it is without the hype or PR BS.
www.fark.com
Near-essential Web directory with links to stories of the bizarre.
www.filmsite.org
Caretakers of an expansive library of the very best in film.
www.fortheretarded.com
Handy movie reviews in easy-to-digest language for movie fans.
www.filmaffinity.com
Takes your likes and dislikes and accurately predicts other movies, DVDs and TV shows – past and present – that you’ll enjoy.
www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/2006/02/icbc-counterattack.html
The best and worst ad clips and pics from around the world.
www.futuremovies.co.uk
Probably most useful to U.K. film fans, but true cinephiles will note that smaller, artsier movies don’t always get a U.S. opening date.
www.group101films.com/home.php
A collective of filmmakers who challenge each other to make a new film every thirty days.
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www.hi-beam.net/cgi-bin/flicker.pl
Films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience.
www.hugemoviequiz.com
If you’ve got WiFi and a laptop, this quiz could take you across the country.
www.iesb.net
Tired of reading Q&As with stars? Now you can just watch.
www.ifilm.com
A seemingly endless collection of viral videos, trailers & music videos.
www.imsdb.com
Find complete scripts to nearly every movie ever made.
www.indiefilms.com
Access to film investors, foundations and others to finance their work.
www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/index.html
Site looks at movies with real-world physics .
www.jumptheshark.com
Charts the instant any TV show hits its peak and begins its downhill march.
www.liquidgeneration.com/mainstreet.aspx
Pop culture figures with snarky, homegrown animated shorts.
www.livid.me.uk/list.php?c=reviews
Angry souls who share their hatred of dreadfully bad films.
www.mastersofcinema.org
Commentary and discussion of the very best of cinema.
www.milkandcookies.com
A daily collection of weird clips, bizarre clips, obscure clips & viral clips.
www.moviecliches.com
That says it all. And every movie’s got one. Or two.
www.movie-list.com
Every movie trailer (and every version) ever released.
www.moviemistakes.com
Tirelessly catalogs the gaffes that make it on the big screen.
www.moviepoopshoot.com
Director Kevin Smith’s somewhat legitimate movie site.
www.moviesounds.com
Cinematic one-liners and speeches.
www.moviesunlimited.com
Find almost any title, including obscure and out-of-print flicks.
www.moviewavs.com
Fill up your iPod with more than 14,000 free downloads of movies.
www.music.eigo-manabu.com/movie
Never worry about finding that one-sheet you’re looking for again.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films
The United Kingdom’s public information films from 1945-2006.
www.noirfilm.com
Share and trade noirish titles.
www.rocketboom.com/vlog
Amanda Congdon’s daily video blog on all things pop culture.
www.rottentomatoes.com
Rounds up current movie reviews from newspapers and magazines.
www.screenonline.org.uk/index.html
Explore the golden age of British TV.
www.script-o-rama.com
Find and download TV and movie scripts for free.
www.shootingpeople.org
Looking for a crew? A director? Trying to get the word out about your film? There are more than 20,000 people who can help out.
http://silent-movies.com
Series of pages about silent-film legends.
www.sillywalksgenerator.com
Attention, Python fans: make a Monty avatar do your bidding, or create your own silly trot.
www.somethingawful.com/isnotitcoolnews
Vicious satire of Ain’t It Cool News. Ain’t it grand?
www.stomptokyo.com
For the diehard VHS tapehead.
www.soundtrackcollector.com
A home for serious soundtrack fans and collectors.
www.soundtrack.net
Commentary on and preservation of the film soundtrack.
www.teleport-city.com/index.html
All things kung fu- and anime-related.
www.terrortrap.com
An online horror museum of creepy films from 1925 to 1987.
www.thefilmasylum.com/main.php
Genre filmmaking (horror, sci-fi, fantasy, action).
www.the-numbers.com
For the anal-retentive movie fan with a dominant left brain.
www.theyshootpictures.com
The best entertainment reporting from newspapers and sites around the world.
www.triggerstreet.com
Kevin Spacey’s site celebrates its fourth anniversary with a redesign.
www.turnhere.com
Short films of cool, beautiful places around the globe.
www.videoeta.com
Sends you an email alert when your requested DVD is set for release.
www.viralmeister.com
The hottest viral-video ephemera and detritus floating around the Web.
www.virtualvaudeville.com/index.htm
Enjoy a 3-D simulation of vaudeville comedian Fran Bush.
www.walken2008.com
President Christopher Walken? Ah, if only.
web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/d/r/dryfoo/www/Funny-pages/republic-dogs.html
That bloody final scene from Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs reimagined as a Greek tragedy.
www.weirdtv.com
Try it, you’ll love it.
www.what-a-character.com
Know the face but not the name? Character actors are indexed by name, movie or random description.
www.whorepresents.com
One of the best – and most current – databases out there to find representatives of Hollywood talent.
www.withoutabox.com
Three-pronged site allows users to find and submit their films to festivals worldwide.
www.youtube.com
Show off your digital clips to the world (and see everyone else’s) almost instantly.
www.zoetrope.com
The Coppola family site offers regular online chats and discussion groups with film industry pros.
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