At least it's not more movies...

Two neat movie-related things have happened across my screen in the past couple of days.

First, imdb.com has added a neat little feature to their movie listings. As shown on the right, when you scroll through the cast list for a flick, now, you get little head shots of many of the actors. Kinda neat, and I'm guessing will become more prevelant as they get more head shots that will work well.

The second comes courtesy of Kyle who was nice enough to point out (in the comments section 'bout a week ago) a new website from Michael J. Nelson (the human on Mystery Science Theater 3000). On the website, he's planning to offer movie commentaries that you can (for a small fee - $1.99 right now) download and watch instead of the official DVD commentaries.

Right now, he's only got one up for Road House, but I'm okay with that since it's one ripe for sarcastic commentary. I haven't downloaded the commentary yet because I don't have the Road House DVD to watch it with, but that won't stop me from pimping the site.

The non-official commentaries are a neat idea that even some filmmakers have been getting into lately. The one that comes foremost to mind - and has been blogged about extensively - is Kevin Smith's commentary for Clerks II which should be released over at News Askew on the Monday after the movie gets released (which should be July 24th - after this post is written but before it's posted).

Enjoyable but occasionally minorly profane review of Clerks II, by the way, over at YouTube. No real spoilers in the review, so it's safe to be watched any time, folks. There's also a mildly entertaining clip of Kevin Smith chatting with a well known critic who walked out of the theater and caused a scene while doing so.