Every year, while watching the Oscars, I see that this movie was nominated for music, that movie nominated for costumes – gee, I’d really like to see them. Over to the movie listings and very few of the ones I’ve been inspired to see are in the theatres now.

How to find more information on movies? Here are some great sites:

Definitely one of my favourites, The Internet Movie Database, http://www.imdb.com. IMBD is a great fun site, with all the bells and whistles that Hollywood needs and loves, movie promo photos, shots of actors at premiers (Gee they dress cheesy for movie stars, what happened to Glamour? And yes, it is spelled with a capital G.), bios, characters, various links to other sites and oh yeah, information about the movie. Remember Lance Henrikson playing a character called the Bishop? Which movie was that? Easy to find on this site - just open the search box and search by actor name or character name.

Movie Review Query Database, http://www.mrqe.com, is a nice site - with exactly what it says - movie reviews from publications and websites, TVGuide, the BBC, Roger Ebert reviews, Urban Cinefile (Australia), Norm at the Movies and much, much more. It’s an easy-to-search site that contains 220, 000 reviews. For example, there are 54 on Casablanca, 102 on Star Wars and 286 on Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace.

There’s also Rotten Tomatoes, http://www.rottentomatoes.com. If the movie’s good it receives a fresh red tomato, if not, it receives a thrown green tomato. You can also see reviews of movies and DVDs. Can’t resist this site for a quick peek.

For movie mistakes see ,http://www.movie-mistakes.com. Check out their list of 20 of the best mistakes. Star Wars is first on the list. You can also easily add mistakes you discover. Find your favourite movie and see how many mistakes you can find next time you watch it.

For an offbeat and fun approach to movies go to http://www.aintitcool.com. WARNING, they’ll tell you all sort of things you don’t want to know! This information has the header SPOILER, so watch it. On the other hand if you really didn’t figure out that in Sixth Sense Bruce Willis was …well, you could have found it out here before seeing the movie.

Last but not least, an A-1 fun site, ASCIIMATION. It’s a condensed version of Star Wars done in ASCII animation. The asciimation is achieved by displaying frames of painstakingly composed ASCII text one after the other http://www.asciimation.co.nz. Even if you’re not a Star Wars fan, this is neat. Thanks to Bob Crispen of http://www.tourbus.com for this one.