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Archive for July 28th, 2009

DVD Report – July 28th

Published by
mpowell
at July 28, 2009 in DVD. 1 Comment

Not much in the way of quality in this week’s batch of films new to DVD. Except of course for Dragonball: Evolution, which reaches Shakespearean heights of drama with inspiring, well-developed characters and a gripping, surprising plot. Incredible stuff… do we have an early front-runner for Best Picture?

Fast & Furious – Average Tier 4.08
As he is released from prison, Brian O’Conner teams up with Dominic Toretto work with the feds to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating his operation. Fast & Furious @ Amazon

Dragonball Evolution – Average Tier 2.13
The young warrior Son Goku sets out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful King Piccolo, to collect a set of seven magical orbs that will grant their wielder unlimited power. Dragonball Evolution @ Amazon

Miss March – Average Tier 3.14
A young man awakens from a four-year coma to hear that his once virginal high-school sweetheart has since become a centerfold in one of the world’s most famous men’s magazines. He and his sex-crazed best friend decide to take a cross-country road trip in order to crash a party at the magazine’s legendary mansion headquarters and win back the girl. Miss March @ Amazon

Big Man Japan – Average Tier 4.00
An eccentric man aged about 40 lives alone in a decrepit house in Tokyo. He periodically transforms into a giant, about 30 meters tall, and defends Japan by battling similarly sized monsters that turn up and destroy buildings. The giant and the monsters are computer-generated. Big Man Japan @ Amazon

Bart Got a Room – Average Tier 4.75
While Danny’s father and mother independently search for love, Danny is on his own desperate quest to find a prom date. Danny’s search becomes progressively more pathetic once he and his family learn that Bart, the school’s biggest dweeb, not only secured a date for the prom, but got a hotel room as well. Bart Got a Room @ Amazon

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Introducing the New Film List Page

Published by
mpowell
at July 28, 2009 in Criticker and Enhancements. 19 Comments

For a long time, we’ve been collecting your ideas and suggestions for the film list page — one of the most frequently visited areas on Criticker — and we’re happy to introduce a completely new iteration of it.

We re-designed the new film list page (now called Film Database in the menu) from the top-down, always keeping in mind your suggestions and ideas, of which we’ve incorporated as many as possible. The number of ways to filter and sort films is greatly enhanced. Here are examples of some of the new things you can do:

· Match All Genres – For example, films which are sci-fi and comedy
· Filter by Popularity – Somewhat well-known animation
· By Filmmaker – Christopher Lee’s Horror Films
· Order by # Rankings – The most frequently ranked films of 1952
· Order by Year – Best Picture Oscar (collection), ordered by year
· Order by Date Ranked – Your list of films, in the order you ranked them
· Indicate Mini-Reviews – Display icons indicating which of mpowell’s scores have mini-reviews
· Save Filters – If you’ve got a filter you’d like to use over again, you can easily save it in our database.

These are just the most drastic changes to the page — there are a lot of other subtle improvements as well. It’s much more well-designed and functional.

We’re pretty confident that you’re going to like the changes but, as always with new enhancements at poor understaffed Criticker, there are likely to be errors. Please report any problems you might find to our support email address. And if you come up with clever or interesting filters, be sure to let us know in the comments!