The Best Online Resources for Movie Buffs

To movie collectors it’s not enough to possess all the great works in cinema history; it is also to know everything about them including cast, awards and trivia.

Here is a list of the best movie resources on the internet. Go ahead, indulge.

Best Overall Movie Information

IMDB
The Internet Movie Data Base is probably the largest, best resource for all things film and television. They include movies, actor bios, user reviews, trivia and so much more. It is entirely too easy to get lost in all that is IMDB.

Best Reviews

TopTenREVIEWS Movies
TopTenREVIEWS gathers rated expert and user reviews from across the internet calculating them into one master score and ranking them in order of best to worst for your convenience.

Metacritic
Metacritic includes reviews from professional critics from all over the country making it the mother ship of movie and TV review sites.

Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is the place where you can put in your 2-movie-cents. You can read professional reviews, join the RT community, only read reviews from critics you agree with, watch trailers, read movie news and more. Besides, there is something cathartic about virtually throwing a tomato at a bad movie.

Best Trailers

iTunes Movie Trailers
The sheer number of trailers available on this site is incredible and as a movie lover you don’t only love film, but film previews. iTunes Trailers has movie trailers from all the major studios and dozens of smaller one. You could spend days on this website and still never see it all.

Best Tickets

Fandango
All movie buffs like going to the theater, even if they have a far superior home theaters setup in the basement, there is something about being in the audience and the smell of stale popcorn that embodies film. Fandango helps you get tickets to the newest releases and avoids those pesky lines.

Best of Lists

American Film Institute
AFI is one of the most respected names in the industry with the intention of preserving American film heritage. This is also the site where you can download and read dozens of their “100 years” lists.

Best Scripts

Drew’s Script-O-Rama
Drew’s Script-O-Rama has scripts from 3 Kings (multiple drafts) to Zulu Dawn and everything in between. It is a lot of fun to read the original script and see how it varies from the final movie product.