FILM & TV
Back to 1997 EDUCATIONAL LINKS... by Nanis
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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