W E B H I T S

Allow me to recommend these web sites...

Cinema and Theatre

• The website of Durham's Gala Theatre and Cinema.
• The website of the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle's independent film theatre.
• Information page for the Metro Centre multiplex cinema, part of the United Cinemas International chain.
• Information page for the UGC multiplex cinema at Boldon.
• The Internet Movie Database
• Ain't It Cool News movie reviews.
• RottenTomatoes.com - movies,DVDs and games, reviews and previews.
• Empire cinema magazine online
• Links about Wallace and Gromit (in my comics and cartoons section)
• Twitch, a world cinema blog "spreading the news on strange little films from around the world".
• Film Threat, an online movie magazine championing independent and underground cinema.
• Trivial Pursuits: random thoughts on films, sports, TV and more, the blog of Chris Kivlehan, regularly publishes movie reviews for the website Celebopedia Celebrity Encyclopedia.
• Darkmatters: The Mind of Matt - the cinema-related blog of Matt Adcock.
• Mutant Reviewers From Hell - movie reviews by a bunch of people fascinated by offbeat, odd films.
• World and Independent film reviews by Jurgen Fauth and Marcy Dermansky for about.com
• Plume-Noire movie reviews - Plume-Noire offers a transcultural collective of film and music commentary.
• Cinema Minima: Personal Digital Cinema. A Los Angeles-based news service for movie makers, covering film festivals worldwide plus the many aspects of film production and distribution.
• EuropeanFilms.net - news and reviews of upcoming feature films from Europe.
• The English-language website of the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), capital of Burkina Faso (pour la version française, cliquez ici). FESPACO is Africa's largest film festival held every two years as a showcase exclusively for African movies.
• All African Movies online store. Reviews and sells movies from countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Ghana, etc.
• Ousmane Sembene: "Senegal's most admired film maker of the century" - a tribute page by Prof. Samba Gadjigo. Further details about Sembene are available in his Internet Movie Database entry.
• For a more comprehensive catalogue of sites on African cinema, try Karen Fung's guide to African Films, Movies and Video on the Internet, maintained by Stanford University Libraries.
• Further African movie sites can also be found in the Film category of the ClickAfrique directory.
• India Info Bollywood movie reviews
• Kino Kultura - news and reviews of new new Russian movies.
• Dian Ying, the Chinese movie database.
• The Hong Kong movie database. Apparently, this has information on just about every HK movie ever made.
• The Black Moon's Reviews Of Japanese Films And Animation.
• Film Ink - Australia's essential online movie magazine.
• The Lumière Reader - New Zealand's independent online cinema magazine.
• Spanish and Latin American movie reviews by the Spanish Arriba language school in London.
• Guide Picks - Top Spanish-Language Videos (Latin America) as selected by Gerald Erichsen for About.com
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• The Sundance Film Festival - the official website of the Sundance Film Festival, which aims to promote the development of film-makers of independent vision.
• The Golden Schmoes movie awards - alternative Oscars awarded by review site Jo Blo's Movie Emporium.
• The Stinkers: the ultimate bad movie awards handed out by the Bad Cinema Society.
• Eccentric Cinema - cult movies, reviews and downloads. Strictly parental advisory (and responsible parents may well advise no to anyone under 18 who asks their consent) and probably not one for the squeamish, this is nonetheless an excellent guide to an eclectic range of movies and TV shows, some popular, others obscure (NB it's best viewed in Internet Explorer or with a plug-in for pop-up image captions).

Useful general interest websites

Featured personal websites/weblogs/rants

• The website of Mr Markis Johnson from Ontario, Canada.
• One from the archives: Stu Horswell's cod philosophy and pseudo-wise words (courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
• Aristotle's Lyceum in Cyberspace, a site by a certain Jeffery Winkler on physics and other scientific and anthropological topics.
• A Frank Guide to Homeland Security Alert Levels from the blog of Mr Frank J. He's a rabidly right-wing Republican with a gun fetish, but he's funny.
• Alex Breure's Osama bin Laden gallery. This link is dedicated to the inhabitants of Islamabad, Riyadh, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Mombasa, New York, Bali, Istanbul, Madrid, London, Birmingham, Sharm el-Sheik and all other innocent people who have suffered at the hands of pseudo-Islamic terrorism.

Other interesting stuff

• Streetmap.co.uk
• PEACEFIRE, an organisation that is against net censorship because censorship software doesn't do what it sets out to do (and probably can't).
• The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure - an organistaion that campaigns against the patenting of software.
• webmaster forums - webmaster resources - a global online community for webmasters. Webmaster forums, resources and much more.
  
• Free online broken link checker
  
• Summit Media's Search Engine Spider simulator
  


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