Top 5 Social Sites for Film Fans. If you ranted and raved about the recent Oscar nominations on Facebook, but none of your friends seemed to care, it’s time to either A) find new friends or B) find a social network that caters to your cinematic needs.
Here are five great sites that help you connect with film fans from all over the world. 1. GetGlue If you love movies, but your interests are too varied to be contained to one medium, then GetGlue is for you. Much like Foursquare, you check in to your favorite activity — everything from movies, TV shows, the big game, music, books and plenty more — using the website or the mobile app. The interaction on GetGlue is pretty one-on-one. 2. iCheckMovies Some movie fans set a goal to watch everything on a particular list of films, like the Best Picture nominees, the IMDb Top 250 or any of the AFI 100 inventories. 3.
One of the newest social movie sites out there, Letterboxd is still in beta, so you’ll need to request an invite or find a friendly film fan that will send you one. MoviePass: Unlimited Movie Tickets for a Flat Monthly Rate. A new startup, MoviePass, is hoping that film fans will be interested in paying $50 a month to see an unlimited number of movies in the theater.
Kicking off its private beta in the San Francisco Bay Area just in time for the big Fourth of July movie weekend, MoviePass is hoping to bring the subscription model that Netflix pioneered for movie rentals to physical movie tickets. We spoke with Stacy Spikes, the co-founder of MoviePass, about the service, its plans for other markets, and other details. The idea behind MoviePass is an enticing one. The price of movie tickets increases every year, so a monthly $50 subscription could pay for itself with just a few shows. Right now, MoviePass is making deals directly with the major online ticketing services, which means that as long as a theater is serviced by a MoviePass ticketing provider, you can go to that theater. To prevent abuse, there are a few rules and regulations regarding the service. Users are limited to seeing one movie per day.
10 Mobile Apps for Movie Addicts. The Movie and Tech Series is supported by DVDVideoSoft.
Discover Free Studio, a full collection of free software to process video, images and audio at DVDVideoSoft.com. Clean, free and user-friendly. One of the greatest things about the burgeoning smartphone app market is all the apps, tools and games for movie lovers. Beyond just finding movie times and getting actor or director information, these apps can actually enhance the moviegoing experience itself by making it easier to manage your personal collections, rent movies online and even find out when it's safe to skip out for a restroom break. With several hundred thousand apps in the App Store and Android Market, it's pretty tough to cover every app out there for movie fans. We tried to stay as platform neutral as possible, picking apps (or alternatives) for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users. 1.
How big is your personal DVD/Blu-ray/downloaded movie collection? 2. 3. 4. 5. It's a great way to augment the movie-watching experience.