American Film Institute
This site may have a limited color palette (as evidenced by a rigorous black/red/white aesthetic), but it's chock-full of resources on film events: speaker series, festivals, etc.

CineMedia
"The Internet's largest film & media directory," CineMedia wields resources on film production, studios, festivals, schools, theaters, and more.

Cyber Film School
The Cyber Film School has myriad movie production info for the budding filmmaker. With links to showbiz news, movie stats, reviews, and more, it's also a great trivia hit for the armchair enthusiast.

Eccentric Film Database
Wiretap's film database, complete with Godzilla and '50s exploitation flick listings.

Film 100
Film 100 offers a ranking of the 100 most influential folks in film history.

Film.com
Reviews, industry info, etc.

Film Studies
The Penn Library guide to film studies. A good start.

Filmmaker magazine
Includes indieWIRE, a daily news service for the independent film community.

firefly
A movie and music recommendation community based on software agent technology developed by MIT Media Lab professor Pattie Maes.

Flicker
The online guide to alternative cinema, filmmakers, resources, and venues.

The Greatest Films
"All the greatest films in cinematic history, with their greatest moments, famous scenes, and memorable film quotes." Also included: overviews of the films, categorized by decade, year, and genre.

Internet Movie Database
"Enough information to melt even the brain of a black belt in movie trivia."

Movie Critic
An agent-based movie recommendation service.

MovieLink
This free nationwide service, run by the people who do 777-Film out of New York City, is so amazing it's almost eerie. The only problem is, the site's never explained very well. The very first time you go to MovieLink, it asks for your nickname and zip code. Go ahead, give it to them. Then the Web site will send your computer a cookie - a little data file - so it will remember your neighborhood every time you come back, and give you detailed show times fast. For some theaters, you can even watch trail ers and buy tickets online.

Mr. Showbiz
This site - run by Paul Allen's Starwave company and laden with misdirected attitude - is nonetheless a good resource to find out about upcoming movies, TV ratings, box of fice rankings, and music charts, and for getting daily Hollywood news. Search the database of movie and TV reviews:

Motion Picture Database
TV Guide's database, taken from CineBooks' 22-volume reference landmark, The Motion Picture Guide, pictures/players includes cast, credits, and reviews for more than 30,000 movies, plus filmographies for more than 500,000 moviemakers.

SCREENsite
This is the Web resource for teaching and researching film and television, including info on film/TV education programs and production. The site also features SCREENchat, an online media studies discussion parlor.