http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/mwc
Bundyland is a must for fans of the cult show Married With Children.
Providing everything from video (MPEG), sound (.WAV and .AU) samples from
the show, to a huge number of stills, most of which seem to be of Christina
Applegate.
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http://www.troma.com/home/
NB There is a disclaimer that goes with this page about under 18s and
all that because it's an missive from the maniac mutant filmmakers at Troma
film studios, production house for inumerable low budget, sleazy slapstick
romps that have acquired a cult status and sicko reputation of their own.
Notorious titles like Class of Nuke 'Em High, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown,
Blondes Have More Guns, Killer Nerd and Surf Nazis Must Die might be some
of their more familiar epics, along with the now celebrated classic series
of Toxic Avenger films. Coming, as it does, from the studio itself, this
site has almost everything. The writing is pretty cool and contextualises
everything, including Troma's it-sucks-approach to mainstream Hollywood.
Obscure video releases, cartoon series and TV re-runs are all mentioned,
along with details of how to get hold of Tromabilia. President Lloyd Kaufman
writes a Toxic Transgressions column and there are regular bits and pieces
on casting, past personalities, clips and posters etc. It's kind of like
a religion and this is a shrine to top schlock and pervydom. You know you
want to...go get tromatised!
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http://www.toystory.com/
There's very little to say in a review like this as everyone is already
interested in the first completely computer-animated feature film in the
history of the universe and has quite possibly already visited the site.
It doesn't disapoint. In a period when it's like everyone is in some kind
of protracted adolescence (cola and pop culture - is it all anyone talks
about?), Toy Story is the perfect nostalgia picture for people who never
stopped being kids. The site is packed full of cutsie pictures of all the
main characters Ü Woody, Buzz, Bo Peep, the piggy bank and an insecure
dinosaur, and there's a whole playroom history of Mr Potato Head. Your desktop
is destined to be customised with all kinds of Toy Story tweaking, like
slinky dog wallpaper, Buzz the astronaut icons and loads of sounds for your
start-up. With Tom Hanks and Tim Allen doing the voices that's a pretty
nice feature, but there are colouring book templates so this is also a site
for real kids. View with all the family.
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http://www.thex-files.com
This improbable television drama has stimulated more online discussion
than any other non-sexual, non-computing, non-Kurt Cobain-topping-himself
topic. You can get the inside here, on the new, yet-to-be-screened-in-the-UK,
series, where it suddenly dawns on Scully that, gee whiz, Mulder's right,
something fishy is going on. Bring on the marchin' martians!
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http://rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de/~mfeld/wallace&gromit.html
Wallace and Gromit are as much of an institution as the Queen's speech
and curry at closing time, and now you can have a close shave on the Net
with Nick Park's intrepid duo. Video clips and a memorable library of pictures
recreate some of the highlights from the films. Gromit chasing that nasty
penguin stradled on the train is particularly memorable. Extensive histories
of Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park and Aardman Animations make this the ideal
companion to the cuddly pair. The site boasts that Nick Park speaks online,
but unless you sprechen Deutsch you can't enjoy this because it's all in
German. However, this is a minor grumble as the page inspires you to go
and watch the great films again.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/evans/trumpgo.htm
An unofficial tribute to three Watch With Mother favourites Ü Trumpton,
Chigley and Camberwick Green. This is a predictable mix of trivia, transmission
dates, plot summaries and even a few pictures with songs, but nonetheless
it provides some sort of carthartic childhood affirmation for 60s kids on
a nostalgia trip. From mentions of Windy Miller to Captain Flack's familiar
Fire Brigade role call, this is an example of British popular culture at
its best. NB: Don't miss the specially recorded Brian Cant 'Welcome To Trumptonshire'
soundbite.
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http://www.bvi.co.uk/therock/
A well-designed site which, although it isn't quite as wham-bam-thank-you-mam
as the film itself, isn't at all bad. For starters there's a game based
on the film which you can either play online if you have Shockwave, or download
to play offline. Also available are video and sound clips, a tour around
Alcatraz with Ranger Bob, and the opportunity to win a Sega Saturn.
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http://www.primenet.com/~drbmbay/
A tribute to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Peter Lawford
and Joey Bishop (Joey who?) with Angie Dickinson as honorary member of the
gang. This is littered with quotes, has links to record label promotions,
some of Dino's scripts, sound files from Sammy and some lovable rogue references
to Vegas, lounge culture and girls, girls, girls. It assumes you're hep
to the whole thing and would benefit from a few more dodgy anecdotes and
notorious tales, but it's smart and it swings, plus it has an extra special
commerative link to the Dino memorial page. Hup hup! Respect is due.
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http://www.seanet.com/Users/weazel/peewee.html
You'd have thought the cult of PeeWee Herman would have ended with his
career, which took a hammering when creator Paul Reubens was arrested for
an alleged indiscretion in an adult cinema way back in 1992. Uh-uh! In fact
rumours currently abound that the character's alter ego is getting married
in March 96 so good times are ahead, and this site refuses to dwell on the
nastiness of the past. Instead PeeWee's Playhouse is a celebration in sound,
in which clicking on a character produces an array of silly noises and catchphrases
from all of PeeWee's pals and the FAQ comes in an 'Ask Globey' format (of
course) and is fantastic. Most of the background information is related
to episodes of the TV series Pee-Wee's Playhouse, but more on the films
can be found at other sites, which are listed and linked as well. I know
you are, but what am I?.
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http://uk.imdb.com/
An exceptional relational database of movie, cast and review information,
selections can be cross-referenced to find an actor's complete biography
by clicking on their name in another cast list. Most films are rated by
online voting and you can add your own reviews. If you have even the most
transient interest in film, you must check this out.
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http://zen.sunderland.ac.uk/~aa1gha/susan.html
Not so much a Web site, more a cyber fan club. Yorkshire lass Gillian
Hardy's page on filmstar Susan Sarandon is a cyber-shrine to her heroine,
with interviews, reviews and plenty of pix (including this year's Oscar
acceptance). Then there's related goodies like the link to the Myelin Project,
which Sarandon's character started in the movie Lorenzo's Oil. Plus there's
links to former co-stars like hubby Tim Robbins, Brad Pitt and Geena Davis,
but not Kevin Costner 'cause Gill just don't like him. Fair 'nuff!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/south_today
If the idea of seeing a picture of the two reporters BBC South is sending
to the Olympics floats your boat then this is the site for you. Rather than
concentrating on how the programme itself works, the site aims to be a central
point of focus for viewers within its catchment area, with links to local
radio stations and other local sites.
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http://www.CityScape.co.uk/users/ij88/
Although unwilling to further encourage the sci-fi obsessives on the
Internet, Internet is willing to acknowledge that this is actually a sound
page. Silicon Heaven is smeghead terminology for the place artificial intelligence
machines go when they're clapped out. In other words... uh-oh, it's all
about Red Dwarf. Two things worth noting (i) the Red Dwarf Dictionary and
(ii) a Dr Who quiz (okay, so it's not all about Red Dwarf). An excellent
addition to the sci-fi cannon. In cyberspace no one can hear you smeg. Awooga!
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http://www.rumble.com
Making the most of the current mania for Hong Kong movies, the slapstick
martial arts meister Jackie Chan makes another stab at mainstream stardom
with comedy kung fu flick, Rumble In the Bronx! The film has so little plot
that the site itself rivals it for narrative drive, but where it can't compete
is in the bone-breaking action. It does manage a few moments, though, with
the usual clips, quiz and some frame-by-frame Shockwave stunt acrobatics,
plus a chunk from the track that battles through the closing credits of
Rumble from Northern Irish kid Britrockers, Ash.
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http://www.ghgcorp.com/rbigoness/hazzard.html
The plinkety-plonkety Waylon Jennings whine comes immediately to mind.
Just two good ol' boys... A fab car, foxy cowgirl minx, floppy-fringed boyish
charisma and a comedy fat bloke called Boss Hogg. Hey Ray, where the heck
is Hazzard County anyway? Who played Cooter? What does the 'P' stand for
in Rosco P Coltrane? Was it a Dodge Charger? Did Daisy Duke work at the
Boar's Nest? If, like this good ol' gal, you had a crush on Bo and Luke
Duke, then Ray's rouster-douster Duke's of Hazzard pages are just what you
need for straightenin' out the curves and flattenin' the hills. Ray knows
just about everything there is to know and could not be recommended more
highly. Cast lists, biographies, episode guides, theme tune and the rest.
It's awash with TV sparkle. Evading the law in open-necked shirts Ü
Fightin' the system, just like two modern-day Robin Hoods. Yeehah!
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http://www.premieremag.com/index.html
Did you ever end up wondering why, when there's an American version
of Premiere magazine, people buy the British one? No offence, it's pretty
good, but it's not an everything-in-advance American product. The Web version
of this fabulous film magazine is way past cool. Among the sneak previews
and smart, incisive and sassy movie reviews, there are fully illustrated
features, the usual hagiographic celebfest stuff, articles and interviews
with directors etc, great pictures, a vault of major Mb film clips and a
section called Schmoozing. This is the place with the quickest turnover,
where people can post their comments and rub shoulders with Premiere's editorial
team. Sometimes the discussion barely strays beyond a I love the magazine
level but occasionally there's someone with an entertaining point to make.
The magazine as a whole is excellent (if you haven't already read the paper
version) and it's the kind of thing that makes you wish for a colour printer,
so you can copy, cut out and keep it.
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http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/2682/
Oliver Stone is our greatest director, professes this monument to one
of America's most controversial film-makers, but it doesn't claim to be
the greatest Web site, and it isn't really, which is a pity as the potential
is there. The links between the films Ü Platoon, The Doors, JFK, etc
Ü are tidy and fast, but these pages may not light your fire. The superb
range of information has no exciting pictures of JFK or Jim Morrison to
help it break through to the other side! The true Stone fan won't mind as
every possible conspiracy theory and cover-up can be fuelled with the Watergate
and JFK files, but the casual browser might initially be put off, before
being sucked into the world according to Oliver Stone.
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http://www.umn.edu/nlhome/g564/lask0008/mscl.html
If there is a hole in your life at six o'clock every Wednesday on Channel
Four, like where My So-Called Life used to be, then this will help to fill
the void Ü epidode by episode, Quicktime clips of every heartstopping
moment (even the one with Juliana Hatfield). Claire Danes, who plays the
central character Angela, has bagged herself a film role and has gone onto
bigger and better things. You, on the other hand, will have to seek solace
in reading about the 19 episodes which were made with Ricky, Rayann, Jordan,
Brian and, of course, Angela. Whoever said life was fair?
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http://www.movieweb.co.uk
MovieWEB is the place to go if you want the latest movie news. Many
of the movies previewed here are not scheduled for release until much later
in the year. Information on new films is supported with video clips, GIF
files, production notes, information about the cast and, if it exists, a
link to the official Web site. There's also a celebrity photo gallery with
your favourite Hollywood stars. Film fans can interact by voting in the
readers poll and order official merchandise in the online store. This site
certainly has a lot of material, but it can very VERY slow, spoiling a potentially
great site.
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http://www.miramax.com/
This is a technically together site on the loading front since a lot
of film companies have had so much criticism for being slow. Miramax films
are too numerous to mention Ü coming soon Beautiful Girls and Things
To Do In Denver When You're Dead. There's usually enough information to
whet your appetite and it's a pretty nice environment to browse around but
nothing overally grand. The best bits are the competitions and giveaways
where you can win anything from a pair of Raybans or a walk-on part in a
Miramax movie to a trip on the QE2.
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http://www.demon.co.uk/rbadesign/michaelbentine.html
You cannot imagine the effect Michael Bentine's barmy army of exploding
dwarf puppets, hair-brained history lessons and silly sergeant major voices
had on a six-year-old child. Potty Time exorcised the pre-prozac demons
of a comic genius gone mad. In January, as a birthday present, Michael Bentine's
son gave his father his own Web site, itself a potted history lesson of
everything he has achieved. There's a bit on The Goons, Potty Time and stuff
about what Michael is up to now. It's rather a sweet personal tribute and
includes details on how to email the man himself.
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http://www.mindspring.com/~mab/kevin/kevin.html
OK, according to the kids behind this wonderful piece of work, the world
revolves around one man and that man is Kevin Bacon (Murder In the First,
Apollo 13, JFK and a whole host more!). They are prepared to posit that
any actor in any movie can be connected to Kevin using a few ingeneous steps.
Kind of like chaos theory in a movie theatre, you choose an actor, a movie
they were in and by a process of linking and matching other cast members
along a chain of films, you will ultimately find that all roads lead to
Kevin (see above URL for better description of gameplay). It can be done
with Fred Astaire, Lon Chaney, David Cassidy and Bela Lugosi. See how it's
possible and have a go yourself. Finally, try and prove 'em wrong. Superb
and a perfect page for trainspotting cinema trivia types.
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http://www.mcs.net/~klast/www/soundtr.html
What with an easy listening revival and Tina Turner's Goldeneye heralding
a Bond theme return to form, it's obvious that sooner or later there would
be a Web site devoted to 007's classic cheese scores. Very simply put together
but very well written, this is a quickstep through the work of Monty Norman,
George Martin, Marvin Hamlisch, Bill Conti, Michael Kamen, Eric Serra and,
of course, John Barry. A dreamy mix of tasteful text and whooshy sound files
Ü shaken, not stirred.
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http://www.demon.co.uk/itc/
They haven't made much of an effort but it'll have to do. This is one
long, potentially very dull, scrollable document outlining what the ITC
does, who its members are, how it's possible to get hold of them and so
on. As a publically accountable body it wouldn't harm them to beef up this
bit of Web PR because the site seems geared more to explaining and offering
the odd contact address rather than enabling the public to respond to what
they see on independent Television. Remember, they're there to ITC you're
not misled and they should at least respond to email.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com
It's like a cross between Broadcast and Entertainment Weekly, only American
and there's no pictures. Industry insider trade paper for the nutty goings-on
in Tinseltown: law suits, deals, buy-outs, sign-ups. Hold the front page
Ü Sharon Stone farts! This site is straightforward entertainment news,
from film and TV to music and other international media. Visitors can subscribe
to the newsstand edition and, if you're looking to make a pitch, you can
search through a pretty weighty contacts book of studios, producers, TV
channels, production houses, festivals and even commissioning agents.
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http://www.hollywood.com/
Hollywood Online was shifting information for film studios long before
it started doing its own. This a prime place for online service members
at AOL, CompuServe, MSN, Delphi, Prodigy and eWorld (yawn) and basically
it offers in nugget form the photos, sound files and multimedia press kits
(including Shockwave) from all the latest films. Given that the studios
are now expending so much effort on developing whole Web concepts themselves,
Hollywood Online is a bit bland and really just a fall back if you can't
find anything else.
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http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/fm71/index.htm
A site dedicated to the Saturday evening phenomenon that is 'The Gladiators'.
Thrill at the pictures of the disgraced Shadow, Hunter and the evil Wolfman,
delight at the opportunity to see pictures of Gladiators from other countries,
and positively pass out with delirium at the author's description of meeting
Trojan in Norfolk complete with the opportunity to win a pig.
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http://www.CityScape.co.uk/users/ak90/index.html
For goodness sake, get a life! Haven't you noticed that the audience
in the Gladiators TV arena is almost universally under twelve. Here are
some glum-looking unofficial Gladiators' fan pages with a global perspective,
no less. Anyone know about the show in South Africa? But listen, the only
good thing about Gladiators these days is Ulrika (great line in wigs) and
the general consensus is that Wolf could really do with a good kicking,
so stop now.
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http://www.nbc.com/entertainment/shows/friends/index.html
There is very little to recommend this site about NBC primetime six-friends-in-New-York-apartment-scenario
sitcom Friends, other than it's the official place to find out about the
series, which is back on Channel Four again, so this is really a resumÚ
for anyone silly enough not to have watched it in the first place. It outlines
the superbly written storylines and dippy delights of Monica, Ross, Rachel,
Chandler, Phoebe and Joey, along with a fit picture of Courtney Cox, who
places Monica and some stuff about the actors' careers. Friends fiends should
also check out http://www.dietcoke.com/friends/, and hey, I'll be there
for you...
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http://www.erack.com/EMPIRE/
Emap's Empire film magazine has always gone for the gag rather than
sophistication in the cinema reviewing stakes. Nevertheless, the writing
is still top standard and where it beats the rest is on stupid ideas. See
the Top Ten Ways to Kill Your Co-star or why not try your hand at a game
of Celebrity Arse!. Although Empire is a monthly, there's something new
on the Web site each week, but to get the best from it you'll need Netscape
2.0 or a browser that supports frames. With film sites that have forums
it's usually true to say that the more interesting debate goes on elsewhere,
ie in newsgroups, but Empire is trying to tackle this by giving their groups
a bit of direction, for example Withnail and I: A Tribute To Drinking Games
(even if the directions point resolutely down!). It's not a bonanza of sexy
starlet pictures and interviews with big names but Empire competes on its
own terms and is all the better for that.
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http://metro.turnpike.net/E/elstree/
There is always some item on Newsroom SouthEast stating that the fate
of the one-time great British film studios at Elstree still hangs in the
balance.This is the home of the Save Our Studios campaign. It also houses
a list of films as long as your arm that claim to have been filmed, at least
in part, using the stages and sets at this notorious Borehamwood-based facility
(among them are 2001, Star Wars, Get Carter, Confessions of a Window Cleaner,
The Railway Children, The Dam Busters, Summer Holiday and Death in Venice.
This information alone makes the site worthwhile but otherwise it's all
a bit dreary. Don't not go on that account alone Ü merely view it in
the context of the rest of British cinema.
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http://cathouse.org/CathousePeople/snopes/disney/disney.htm
Setting parents' minds at rest and the record straight for us other
gullible saps, this site untangles the truth from the salacious rumours
that abound about Disney dirt. Does the word SEX appear in a dust cloud
during The Lion King? Did a disgruntled artist draw a male member on the
video cover of The Little Mermaid? Was the dead Walt Disney dabbling with
cryogenics? All this, and more, is revealed.
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http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/
CinemaSpace provides a thought-provoking opportunity to elbow in on
the world of academic film studies, coming, as it does from UC Berkeley's
Film Studies Program. Prospective students can study the syllabus and academics
use the site to solicit papers for snoot conferences but, in general, the
people who benefit most from this are film students and media kids who appreciate
the occasional paper on 'Narrating National Sadness: Cinematic Mapping and
Hypertextual Dispersion' or 'Clockwork Orange and the Aestheticization of
Violence'. Science Fiction has a whole department for itself.
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http://users.aol.com/Cinemam/muerto.htm
We've all walked the double-edged sword of the truly dire movie. Does
its crapness transcend the time we wasted watching it? Or is the director
just a genius of high camp? Cinema Muerto is for devotees of the best of
the bad Ü duff scripts and shaky sets from Dollman to Demolition Man.
This has yet to be transformed into the ugly, gruesome, many-headed monster
it might become. Once the gore fans get hold of it, it'll be ketchup kitsch
all the way.
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http://www.c4support.bss.org/
A complementary and forward thinking initiative from the nice peeps
at Broadcasting Support Services, this is a companion site for all the extra
curricula Channel Four guff and information that you could every possibly
want or need, divided into several helpful sections so it's easy to get
around. BigBytes has online specialist programme information culled from
its mail-out paper counterpart. This includes itineries from Travelog, abridged
transcripts of Equinox, a summary of the issues featured in the last series
of First Sex and links and articles on Four's infamous Pot Night. Paper
Back-up is the official catalogue and archive of all the channel's support
material, ie send-an-sae programme supplements, scripts and accompanying
publications, while Interaction contains details of all the public access
programmes like Takeover TV and Right To Reply as well as how to get an
entry form for the Lloyds Bank Film Challenge. Lastly, ByteSize is a muddle
of programme-related hotlinks taking in everything from Mission Impossible
to Italian Soccer, Hollyoaks and Sesame Street. This last section is definitely
not dull and worthy public-service-by-numbers but a witty and entertaining
source of great places to go on the Web.
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http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~bandc/a.wiseman/625/
For your delectation and delight, Mr Andrew Wiseman presents a selection
of logos from such seminal 70s series as Dr Who, Tiswas and Charlie's Angels.
His site also features highlights from fellow TV history freak Sean Hughes'
collection of TV station idents from the 70s and 80s. How can you forget
the Anglia knight on his charger? The Yanks usually do this sort of thing
so well, so it's good to see a couple of Brits competing hard.
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http://weber.u.washington.edu/~magritte/chan.html
It being Jackie Chan's birthday on 7 April you just have time to send
a card. Get it to the fan club by 31 March and they will forward it for
you. Unfortunately this is the most interesting piece of information on
this thoroughly underwhelming fan effort. Mercifully the background is so
awful that it interferes with the legibility of the text. Shame.
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http://www.filmscouts.com/
It's pretty easy to end up lost in the labyrinthine world of Film Scouts,
shuffling from cinema lobby to screening room then back to another cinema
lobby. If this happens then just ask the usher, who'll be more than pleased
to help you. Otherwise, explore at your leisure the carefully selected 'now
showing' film clips, slides, festival diaries, transcribed celebrity interviews
and the projectionist's own home movies (starring Dennis Hopper, Patsy Kensit,
Al Pacino etc). More adventurous than the average studio site.
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http://www.sky.co.uk
Fancy piling round your mates for Premier League matches? Tired of missing
Melrose Place? Sky schedules, celebrity Web sites, more X-Files, and the
week in movies, all cabled conveniently to your modem without the aid of
a satellite dish.
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http://www.demon.co.uk/totv/
Hoping to cash in on some of the hyper-weirdness on the Internet, Channel
Four's scary public access show has chosen this spot to solicit for new
acts. Takeover TV is the amateur do-it-yourself mad-cam schlock show in
which wannabe telly presenters get to make a complete arse of themselves.
It's like a cross between Chopper Chicks In Zombietown and Jermey Beadle's
You've Been Framed. This is a chance to catch some of the highlights from
the last series (Reg Charity, Shopping with Wonderwoman and 'Plump Friction')
and to see what has happened to the show's stars since. It's also the place
to find out how to enter your own home movie. If it's broadcast you earn
the princely sum of £90. NB: Download the clip of Norman Sphincter.
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http://www.clever.net/wiley/charliea.htm
An appreciation of 70s proto-feminist glamour cop show Charlie's Angels
(all right, they were private investigators). With Farrah Fawcett-Majors
as mistress of the opening credit hair flicks, the best thing about this
site is the pictures. There's an episode guide but besides that, much of
the other material is a bit lame. Where is Charlie's establishing monologue?
But I took them away from all that. They were pioneers not just pin-ups.
A million girls learned how to punch a guy's lights out, wearing wangy collared
outfits and way too much eyeshadow and blusher. They deserve more.
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http://nitro9.earth.uni.edu/doctor/homepage.html
Little in the way of pictures but loads of links to stuff for the serious
fan, including, of course, the dates of all the conventions. Study from
behind the sofa.
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http://www.msstate.edu/Movies/couples.html
Q: Who married Felipe de Alba, George Sanders, Conrad Hilton, Herbert
Hutner, Jack Ryan and Frederick von Anhalt? A: Zsa Zsa Gabor. Well what
a surprise. Be warned, there's a lot to load.
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http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kritzber/new/hugh/hugh.html/
Amusing and mildly entertaining but also complete rubbish. This is only
in the magazine for all you sad saps who find his awkward, fumbling, useless,
floppy haired, public school boy poncing quite appealing. The site has a
nice heart design background and a link to the Anti-Andie MacDowell page.
Nuff said.
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http://www.compulink.co.uk/vip/waveydavey/Welcome.html
You'd be forgiven for thinking that this is one hell of a wind up as
the main purpose of this page is to get you to send £100 sterling
to the Irish Film Trust in Marbella. Yeah right! But on further investigation
it's an opportunity to invest in a film about the turbulent life story of
Net guru Davey Winder and how the Internet literally saved his life. It's
got tears, technology and a happy ending. Forget Sandra Bullock, F2F and
happy hacking teenagers Ü this is a biopic of blockbuster proportions.
Tom Hanks for the title role?
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http://www.film.com/
You're guaranteed a consummately professional approach to the current
film releases when accessing the calm critique of Film.com. Being an American
site, it obviously works to a US schedule, but this, if anything, is better
for sounding knowledgable amongst your unconnected friends. Video and laser
disc information is also included. A firm Web favourite of all time.
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http://www.strangedays.com/
With a fast link this site is something else. It assaults your senses
in, presumably, the same way that the opening sequence of Kathryn Bigelow's
cy-fi thriller Strange Days actually does. Quite frankly, if you didn't
know there was a film with the same name as this site, you might wonder
what was going on.
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http://www.ama.caltech.edu/~mrm/godzilla.html
Mark is a man obsessed, which probably accounts for the fact that his
mammoth scrollable selection of films, screenings, posters, toys and ads
is actually a bit of a muddle. If you're a real fan you might take time
to untangle some of the stuff he's got. The most recent monster Japanese
box office statistics? Or the plot synopsis of recently made Godzilla vs
Destroyer?
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http://guide.oscars.org/
Did you see that episode of Monkhouse's Memory Masters when that bloke
could remember the winner of stuff like Best Key Grip 1953 at the Oscars?
Well he'd love this Ü the official interactive guide to the Academy
Awards. Past and present nominations and winners as well as top quiz trivia.
Example: name three actresses who used sign language in their acceptance
speeches? Go find out.
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http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ark/julia/
There have been some problems with the pictures on Alex Knowles' site,
so you probably won't get to see as much of Julia as you might like. However,
there are a few things worth checking out Ü her interview on CompuServe,
some unconfirmed gossip about her ex, Dexter, and a link to the Press Gang
pages. We love Lynda Day.
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http://sepnet.com/rcramer/index.htm
Imagine a Denver video store run by some cinema-mad sleaze and you might
just conjure up a picture of the mail order advert of a dive that is Ronnie
Kramer's. Rather than order some of the titles, it's enough just to peruse
- exploitation pics, 70s porn flicks, sci-fi, horror, drive-in disasters
and, finally, troubled teens. Ronnie Kramer's oeuvre is naturally in stock,
with titles like Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend can you really afford to give
it a miss? Mondo Grosso.
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http://www.marshall.edu/~hartwel1/humor/drug_scooby_doo_10.html
Ho hum. You've probably figured out all 10 for yourselves but it's kind
of nice to know someone made the effort - not!
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http://www.hype.com/home.htm
Name a villain from Hong Kong Phooey? Or the theme park in The Banana
Splits? Just two of the as-yet-to-be-answered crucial questions from Hype's
Nostalgic Wave. Although there's lots of stuff here on movies, music, video
games, comics and TV, head straight for the ever-growing archive of pop
culture's past. Hype! solicits tacky trivia that you thought was beyond
recall. In The Bionic Woman, what happened to Jamie Summers that caused
her to be fitted with bionic legs, a bionic right arm and a bionic right
ear?
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http://www.discovery.ca/
Boo hiss....you need a jumbo-sized phone line to capture all the pictures,
which makes this site a very matter of fact text-fest of listings for the
science, technology, nature and environment channel.
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http://www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/r/rfbatcho/www/drew/
No, not the recently 'out' top class British entertainer but another
star with a one-time drink problem, Drew Barrymore. What with House of Drew
being temporarily offline, point your browser here for pictures of the saucy
little miss.
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http://www.connect.org.uk/brookside
Click on any house in the Close and relive what went on. Anyone remember
who got killed in the siege? The name of Heather's first husband? Or what
happened to her second one?
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http://www.yearling.com
Want to know what's on TV tonight? This nifty little service gives you
listings according to your own pre-selected likes and dislikes. However,
in practice, some of the search criteria are a little limiting and it might
be quicker to check the paper.
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http://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/tv/rickilake/ricki.html
Worth it alone for Ricki's list of tacky tabloid talkshow topics: 'Hey,
Back Off...We're Eloping And You Can't Stop Us'; 'We May Be Identical Twins...But
I Hate Your Guts'; and 'I Want To Confront The Pothead In My Family'. Problems,
problems...
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http://cybermart.com/sundance/institute/institute.html
Anything with Robert Redford as top dog goes in our house. The commitment
Redford made by creating the Sundance Institute, to support and develop
emerging screenwriters and directors and to exhibit new independent cinema,
remains solid. This site administers most of the information you'd want
if you were interested in some of the films and programmes going on. It's
also the home of all info on the Sundance Festival. Results for '96 up now.
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http://www.magicnet.net/~chrisr/keitel/keitel.html
Okay, so Harvey Keitel, cool as milk. This is a cut and paste page of
links to reviews of some of Harvey's most recent movies and more infamous
films. How many times have you seen The Bad Lieutenant? Completism is usually
more important to the fan than discrimination, and this proves to be the
case here. But who cares? There's a filmography, of course.
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http://showbiz.starwave.com/showbiz/
Kind of, like, a smarter, sassier version of Entertainment Weekly, Mr
Showbiz has all the dope on what's going down in TV-land and movie-town.
Mouthy opinion pieces on everything under the sun, movie reviews you can
trust, readers' slacker queries and the cutest, crazy icons and graphics
you ever did see.
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http://www.bianca.com/
The recent extension of Bianca's notorious smut-shack empire sees her
moving into film territory. Still in very early stages, most of the pages
here are about cult hacker documentary 'Unauthorised Access'. Along with
'critic's corner', everything is completely in keeping with Bianca's aim
to keep the Net anarchic, liberated and free.
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http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~gdd816/2001.html
2001 must be one of the most popular movies among Internet users if
the number of sites is anything to go by. This is a page of links to everything,
from a collection of Hal samples at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology
to the alt.movies.kubrick newsgroup. Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
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http://www.public.lastate.edu:80/~abormann/
Ultimate auteur-mad cult movie fan on Tarantino, John Carpenter, Sam
Raimi, the Coen Brothers. Now showing.
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http://www.unantes.univ-nantes.fr/~elek/simpson.html
Listen to how the French have to hear Homer, El Barto et al, and maybe
you'll go a bit easier on them in future.
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http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/kennyp/sounds.html
Just what it says and the list is endless Ü a real treat.
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http://www.computan.on.ca/~grahame/cs.html
This unofficial home page is an amalgam of many resources, including
those of the original Listserver newsgroup for The Street, details of which
are included here. You know the form by now with these fan-based things
Ü history of programme, episodes, stills and the theme tune (one of
the best). Also, find out how to drop into The Rovers for an Internet Relay
Chat. That Tricia's a right old cow.
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http://www.spe.sony.com/Pictures/tv/jeopardy/jeopardy.html
Watched by 42 million people around the world, its contract renewed
till the end of the century...the motherlode of immeasurable knowledge has
its own site with background, facts, a biography of the talented, urbane
host, Alex Trebeck (sarcasm is not the lowest form of wit) and show topics
so you can take part at home.
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http://www.netaxs.com/people/dgresh/snddir.html
A whole site of sound files sampled at 11kHz/8 bit/Mono/Wav format from
loads of fave films. From Wayne's World to The Wizard of Oz, Rocky Horror
to The Shawshank Redemption Ü start up each morning with Get busy living,
or get busy dying...goddamn right!
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http://nextdch.mty.itesm.mx/~plopezg/Kaplan/Hitchcock.html
Man drinking champagne in Notorious, man sat next to Cary Grant on a
bus in To Catch A Thief. This excellent, thoroughly researched site on Alfred
Hitchcock has a complete list of all his cameos, some of his most quotable
quips, as well as a full filmography, potted biography and plenty more.
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http://www.skypoint.com/members/magic/roger/teencritic.html
Roger is 16, from Minnneapolis, and his hobbies are watching TV, acting
and learning to kick box. A sideline in rating and slating a whole bunch
of movies makes him pretty unpopular amongst some visitors to his site Ü
everyone hates a critic.
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http://www.futurenet.co.uk/edwood/
Not actually about the new Tim Burton biopic of the infamous cult film
director but a showcase for re-released videos of his work. Respected critics
have called Plan 9 From Outer Space the worst film ever made and there's
a suitably naff competition to win a 'Make your own sequel to Plan 9 kit'
Ü a dustbin, paper plates and silver foil.
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http://www.uaep.co.uk/bravo.html
Timewarp TV Ü all the schedules, highlights and sci-fi trash trivia
on cult favourites UFO, Department S, Man in A Suitcase and lots more. Plenty
of film and small screen facts to one-up friends with, from Bravo, the cult
satellite and cable channel.
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http://www.creacon.com/LNC/
Did you know that Dean Cain, aka Superman in The New Adventures of Superman,
majored in history at Princeton? Smart boy. While Teri Hatcher, aka Lois,
pops up in episodes of The Love Boat, Magyver and plays Sly's bubble permed
sister in Tango and Cash. Class! Unmissable for all FOLCs Ü that's
Fans Of Lois and Clark to you and me.
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http://www.well.com/user/vertigo/cliches.html
A compendium of cinema conventions, those movie moments where you know
what happens next. Take computers, for example: all monitors display inch
high letters and you can gain access to secret information simply by typing
ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES. Believe.
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http://www.gti.nrt/azog/rugrats
Fully illustrated introduction to the cutsie cartoon world of Chucky,
Tommy, Angelica, Phil and Lil, the twins. Episode information and the whole
theme tune will not suffice. We need more toddler trivia. Dontcha just love
those darn kids?
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http://www.algonet.se/~quark/st.html
Maybe it would be possible to round up all the Trekkers in the universe,
shove them onto the Starship Enterprise and lob them into the final frontier!
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http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~jl8287/letterman.html
If you missed Letterman's trip to London and you still haven't got Sky,
here's a chance to sample gems such as the pre-taping audience warm up,
Bill Hick's (almost) last appearance and Madonna - your first choice to
date your son. The sheer volume of Top Ten Lists means they had to be shifted
elsewhere, but it's now possible to access a Top Ten Archive to discover
even more of the funny guy's top ten things.
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http://www.batmanforever.com/
Go completely bat bonkers. Totally cool, never-before-seen segments
of Val Kilmer's Dark Knight and behind the scenes footage to download. The
only way to the Batcave is by deciphering Riddler's evil quips, but if you
get lost in Gotham, ask the Alfred icon for help.
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http.//www.makingmovies.com/tallent
Get a piece of the movie action with this glam subscription service.
Get involved in developing film scripts, seeing them through pre-production,
casting and shooting. It's a wrap.
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http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~milesm/ontv.html
So what is Miles watching on TV? Tune in to see the current screen shots.
Although, shouldn't you be out making some friends?
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http://www.cybernetics.net/users/emmett/tv/ee.html
Here's the perfect way to spend your idle time between episodes of EastEnders.
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http://www.cts.com/~jeffmj/soaps.html
Keep up with who's doing what to who, who they told, and who shouldn't
find out, in the surreal world of soap fiction.
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http://kilp.media.mit.edu:8001/power/homepage.html
Save this one for when a certain noisy junior Power Ranger interferes
with your hangover. Point their head this way while you go back to bed.
Downloading all the heavy graphics, at say 2400bps, should give you ample
time for some shut-eye.
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http://digiplanet.com/tankgirl/
Despite having Madonna's subtlety and Beavis and Butthead's spirituality,
this comic-to-film adaptation's Web presence is a good one. Its backdrops,
movie clips and in-your-face promotion give an ample sample of what to expect
from the film.
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http://weber.u.washington.edu/~roland/x-files/
This improbable television drama has stimulated more online discussion
than any other non-sexual, non-computing, non-Kurt Cobain-topping-himself
topic. You can get the inside here, on the new, yet-to-be-screened-in-the-UK,
series, where it suddenly dawns on Scully that, gee whiz, Mulder's right,
something fishy is going on. Bring on the marchin' martians!
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http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~scrfin
Thorough details and advice on European film production, taken from
the business publication Screen Finance, plus a plethora of screen-related
links, earn this site a place in any film fanatic's bookmarks. The interface
has recently been speeded and smartened up and, although there is a lot
of quite heavy academic and industry info here, the structure is neat and
the tone friendly.
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http://www.teleport.com/~xwinds/TVNation.html
Episode listings, poll results and transcripts of the historic TV Nation
day bill passed in the US Congress Ü from this brilliant cutting-edge
current affairs satire.
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http://calvin.hsc.colorado.edu/
Much what you would expect from a rabid fan of MTV's pop culture analysis,
as seen through the eyes of two dysfunctional juvenile delinquents.
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http://www.cityscape.co.uk/channel4/
This page forms part of Channel 4's follow up service. You can follow
up on programmes you've seen or may have missed to receive more information
or contact participants. Also included are full scripts to two episodes
of the excellent Equinox programme.
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http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~mlkel/macgyver/macfaq_intro.html
If you've ever watched MacGyver, you'll know that there is one thing
which distinguishes him from other action heroes - his ingenious solutions
to the impossible predicaments he gets himself into. There are all the production
details, FAQs, episode guides and biographies you would expect here, but
it's the list of MacGyverisms in each episode which you'll be really after.
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http://tvnet.com/TVnet.html
Here's an idea for a quiet drinking game. Going round the table in turns,
name a US TV show. If it doesn't have a home page here, skoal one shot of
tequila. Expect to leave sober. This one has the lot, along with so many
TV-themed interactive resources and things to explore that you'll be lucky
to have any time for the neon bucket itself.
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http://www.ids.net/picpal/
There are only weird, daring and truly offbeat films featured on this
online video store. Each film has a short review and some have images and
sound samples. There's some really choice stuff, grouped into Exploitation,
RIP, Japanimation, From Hong Kong, Horror and Film Noir. While the store
says it was set up to make hard-to-get videos available, and while it invites
email, it doesn't actually mention money or shipping.
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http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/hkmovie/
This site features plenty of information about the action director's
director John Woo, his catalogue, plans and profiles of actors such as the
genius Chow Yun Fat. If you've seen any of his gems such as Hard Boiled,
The Killer or God of Gamblers, you'll know why he's received such cult notoriety.
But it's not all Woo and Fat, there's plenty more, including a searchable
database, MPEG movies, images, FAQs, interviews, news Gophers and even the
Hong Kong Popstars Archive.
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http://web.city.ac.uk/~cb157/Dave.html
There's not as much here as you might expect, given the surrealist auteur's
huge and deserved cult following. The discussion areas are a bit lean, but
the full scripts of Dune and Fire Walk With Me, and the interview with Ray
Wise (father and killer of Laura Palmer), should satisfy fans.
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http://pogo.wright.edu/TwinPeaks/TPHome.html
If you can't get enough of the decade's TV highlight Twin Peaks, perhaps
this site will help you through the hours leading up to the local release
of Lynch's subsequent productions. All the Log Lady introductions, cast
lists, pictures, theories, hidden allusions, FAQs, scripts and other Twin
Peak links are available.
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http://www.ama.caltech.edu/~mrm/kirk.html
Audio excerpts from William Shatner's bold vinyl masterpiece 'The Transformed
Man'. Inspiring stuff!
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http://mtvoddities.viacom.com
Animations, soundbites, graphics and airdates for MTV house pets, like
the Head and Beavis & Butthead are available on this site. However,
only Head footage is featured in these infant days.
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http://www.hal.com/~markg/docs/RedDwarf/rd-home_page.html
Episode guide, FAQs, favourite quotes, images and sounds from the excellent
British sci-fi situation comedy. Hopefully the favourite quotes will develop
into full scripts.
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http://itdsrv1.ul.ie/Entertainment/Prisoner/the-prisoner.html
This lean fan page of cult TV series 'The Prisoner', features episode
listings and an interview with the actor/playwright Patrick McGoohan, who
rejected the role of James Bond only to slip into obscurity.
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http://generations.viacom.com/
Previews, news, peeks behind the scenes and merchandising from Paramount
Pictures' new Star Trek film, this site claims to bring the final frontier
to the cyber frontier. In this latest instalment of our favourite space
soapie, through some astrological illogicality, Captain Picard (Patrick
Stewart) comes face to face with Captain TJ Hooker (William Shatner).
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http://www.mca.com
New features from the MCA/Universal stable, presently featuring interactive
premieres of Arnie's Junior and Kylie and JC Van Damme's Streetfighter Ü
a glittering showcase of the finest acting talent available to MCA.
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http://www.disney.com/
This site presents previews of forthcoming mainstream movies from Touchstone
and Disney. The title screen is an old-fashioned movie house. Walk through
the doors to watch excerpts from new films, interviews with the stars or
read press releases. If you have a good system and video player, plus the
patience to download the minute-long video cuts, you will be delighted by
the quality. Be the envy of your friends as you watch 101 Dalmations clips
time and time again.
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http://turtle.ncsa.uiuc.edu/alan/simpsons.html
Listen to Homer drool Two all-beef patties, special sauce... and the
like. The stills and animations are as good as you would expect and the
sound files have a certain cutesiness which many fans will enjoy tirelessly.
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http://bantha.pc.cc.cmu.edu:1138
Strictly for diehard buffs of the film and not the fabled defence project.
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http://colargol.edb.tih.no/~kennetha/pulp.html
If the Internet is your only contact with the outside world, you may
not yet have overloaded on the hype surrounding the release of Tarantino's
Cannes winner. Those with a fixation on the incomplete may like to download
excerpts from the soundtrack or movie.
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~bigmac/python.html
Visit this site for a copyright-abusing compendium of Monty Python's
Flying Circus pictures, clips, audio and scripts. The big drawback for Python
fans is that the only way to download them is to pay in DigiCash (see under
Business) Ü perhaps the wackiest ever way of trying to create a de
facto standard.
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http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies
An exceptional relational database of movie, cast and review information,
selections can be cross-referenced to find an actor's complete biography
by clicking on their name in another cast list. Most films are rated by
online voting and you can add your own reviews. If you have even the most
transient interest in film, you must check this out.
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