I have and use the Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide paperback and rather than update it (I'm still using the 2004 edition!), I'd love to have it or a simular program on a DVD rom or software.

Any suggestions?

IMDB.com is the best resource for all things movies

It's a great resource for misinformation, too! I don't always agree with his opinions, but I'd rather have a Maltin guide or two (among others, naturally) on the coffee table or a nearby shelf for quick reference than run to the computer and spend more time than necessary clicking around the IMDB, and then various other sites to confirm the veracity of what I read at the IMDB. I'm sure the site will remain an ubiquitous, obvious and easy/lazy first choice for eons to come (yes, I use it), but it's hardly a best resource. Biggest, maybe. And when it comes to non-American films below the upper shelf of "well-known works of world cinema"—i.e. the populist, everyday stuff that doesn't cross the pond—well, good luck.

I think there used to be a CD-ROM database of movie reviews that one could buy, but I'm a book person. I always have the latest versions of Maltin, "DVD Movie Guide" (sadly now defunct, it appears), and Time Out Film Guide at my bedside for handy, quick scanning, plus innumerable others on nearby shelves. Blockbuster actually used to produce a respectable, very thorough annual guide similar to Maltin's, but I think the last one was '99 (which I still have). And then there's Steven Scheuer, whose last annual volume was '92. I don't know what happened to him.

I stopped buying it years ago once I got on the internet, but Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever was always my choice for printed info. They have a website as well:

http://www.movieretriever.com/

This. I bought one of their books on clearance and it is great.

If I could search or order by ratings, that would be perfect.

I used to love those books as well.

Time Out is the only film guide you'll ever need, and the only one that should be purchased annually.

Have to admit, those are good reads.


Anybody remember the review DVD that Maltin was associated with back in (I think) the late 90's, or maybe the early 00's? I recall it being bagged with some home video magazine of the period. It was a single disc in a card-stock folder, and had a main segment where Maltin and some other critics discussed new DVDs, as well as trailers, fluff interviews and a mix of text and audio reviews of new releases. The first one is probably buried around here somewhere, but since I don't display my collection, it'd be a pain to hunt for it now (if I even kept it). I thought the concept was kind of neat, but it didn't seem like it would have legs, which, apparently, it didn't.

I have to agree in my experience with them-