Resources: Entertainment Sites
Movies | Music | Television
Movies
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
http://www.oscars.com/
The Oscars! Every February Oscar Fever hits the entertainment community and film fans around the world, building to the crescendo of the annual Academy Awards Presentation a month later, when hundreds of millions of cinema lovers glue themselves to their television sets to learn who will receive the little golden statuette.
Apple: Movie Trailers
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
Check out this site and see previews of new releases. There are tons of movies! Search by genre, studio, or even movies in high def.
Cinema: How are Hollywood Films Made?
http://www.learner.org/interactives/cinema/
Explore this creative process, from the screenwriter's words to the editor's final cut. Write your own dialogue for a scene or put yourself in a producer's shoes by managing the production of a film.
Drew's Script-O-Rama
http://www.script-o-rama.com/
A great site for movie scripts. Updated about once a week.
Hollywood.com
http://www.hollywood.com/
This site covers it all, news, movies, showtimes, celebs, multimedia, video and dvd, indie films, and even Broadway!
Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
A database of over 260,000 film and television productions made since 1892. They catalog information on who made them, who appeared in them, where they were filmed, awards they received, trivia, quotes and many other categories.
MovieLens
http://movielens.umn.edu/login
MovieLens uses "collaborative filtering" technology to make recommendations of movies/videos that you might enjoy, and to help you avoid the ones that you won't. The predictions you get are personalized to your tastes, which are learned by asking you to rate movies that you have seen before.
Movie Mistakes
http://www.moviemistakes.com/
Just a bit of fun, pure and simple. From only mistakes in the early days, it's gradually come to be a collection of any bits of trivia, things to spot, continuity mistakes, and random thoughts to do with all manner of films.
Rotten Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
With more than 100,000 titles and 360,000 review links in its ever growing database, Rotten Tomatoes offers a fun and informative way to discover the critical reaction on movies from the nation's top print and online film critics, neatly summarized via the TomatometerTM.
Music
AMG All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/
Wow! This is an incredibly detailed site that takes you into the depths of every type of music you can imagine. For example, Rap is divided into 23 different types from Alternative Rap to West Coast Rap (Wyclef Jean to Dr. Dre).
Artist Direct
http://ubl.artistdirect.com/
A music-specific search engine that gives visitors rapid access to information about more than 115,000 favorite artists.
Art of the Mix
http://www.artofthemix.org/index.asp
Art of the Mix is a website devoted to the art of making mixed tapes and cds. While there are no sound files available on Art of the Mix, there is a database of over 3,000 mixes that people have posted to the site. Anyone can submit a song list from a mix they have made, as well as an image that accompanies the mix, and comments about that mix.
A Brief History of Banned Music in the United States
http://ericnuzum.com/banned/
A selective on-line chronicle of popular music that has been censored, banned, suppressed, or altered against the wishes of its creators and intended audience.
Filmtracks Modern Soundtracks Reviews
http://www.filmtracks.com/
There are soundtracks. Then there are scores. Executive record producers of the '90s feed consumers with 'soundtracks' that consist of irrelevant song compilations. You won't find those marketing scams here. At Filmtracks, you get the score... the true, orchestral magic of film music.
Insound
http://www.insound.com/
Are you into independent labels? Then this is the site for you, my friend!
Kiss This Guy
http://www.kissthisguy.com/
The archive of misheard lyrics.
Yahoo Music
http://new.music.yahoo.com/
Need some music to listen to as you type that English paper? Yahoo Music allows you to create your own personal Internet radio station based on your tastes. Oh, and when you're done with your homework you can check out the latest music videos.
Lyrics.com
http://www.lyrics.com/
Oh! So that's what they're singing.
MTV Online
http://www.mtv.com/
MTV? What's that?
MusicMoz
http://musicmoz.org/
Music information is one of the most searched topics online. Commercial and fan web sites offer an abundance of information on thousands of bands and artists. One of the biggest drawbacks to this wealth of information is that it can be very disorganized. Based around the Open Directory editing model, MusicMoz aims to be a comprehensive directory of music, built by volunteers around the world, with contributors from the web public.
The Original Hip Hop Lyrics Archive
http://www.ohhla.com/
'Nuff said.
Pollstar
http://www.pollstar.com/
This site maintains the world's largest database of international concert tour information. Wanna know if and when 50 cent is coming to town? Check it out here. Concert tour information is updated and verified every week.
Radio-Locator
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/home
The most comprehensive radio station search engine on the Internet. They have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.
The Rap Dictionary
http://www.rapdict.org/Main_Page
Just trying to create a little bit of order in the chaos of rap related information available on the Internet. Go see if you can find your thang.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
http://www.rockhall.com/
This is the house that rock built.
Television
Stations
General Interest
Emmy Awards
http://www.emmys.org/
Alas, the Academy Awards are broadcast but once a year. That's why we have the Emmys, our mid-year glamour fix.
Episodesguide
http://www.episodeguides.com/sources/main.htm
Aw man! So you missed the last episode of Buffy. No problem. Click here for a detailed summary of your favorite television show.
Jump the Shark
http://www.tvguide.com/jumptheshark
It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. The instant that you know from now on....it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. Others call it "jumping the shark."
White Dot
http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_front.asp
White Dot is the international campaign against television, based in Chicago and Brighton. They seek to answer that ridiculous question: "What do you do if you don't watch TV?"
