Four Weddings and a Funeral

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)I am still looking for a source of good movies. In the meantime I watch whatever I can get. “Four Weddings and a Funeral” for today.

Directed by: Mike Newell
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Cast: Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Simon Callow, John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Bower, Charlotte Coleman, Andie MacDowell, Timothy Walker, Sara Crowe, Ronald Herdman, Elspet Gray, Philip Voss, Rupert Vansittart, Nicola Walker
IMDB raintg: 7.1
My rating: 6.5 [rate 6.5]

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Generating ultimate movie wishlist with Perl and IMDB

One of the things that will go into history with the year 2005 is the number of bad movies produced by Hollywood. IMDB says:

Hollywood is mired in its biggest box-office slump in over 20 years.

With all those bad movies around, finding something worth the time and effort becomes increasing difficult. Luckily, there are these two things that can make our lives easier – IMDB and Perl.

Combining the two all sorts of interesting things can be achieved. Particularly, an ultimate movie wishlist can be generated.

If you are here just for the script, than here is the movie_wishlist.pl. If you want just the result, than here is wishlist.html. Otherwise read on for the explanations on how it works and how you can make it better.

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The Animal

The Animal (2001)Since there was nothing else for me to rent, I had to revert to old films that I’ve missed. “The Animal” is one of them.

Directed by: Luke Greenfield
Genres: Comedy
Cast: Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Edward Asner, Michael Caton, Louis Lombardi, Guy Torry, Bob Rubin, Pilar Schneider, Scott Wilson, Raymond Ma, Michael Papajohn, Ron Roggé, Holly Maples, Henriette Mantel
IMDB raintg: 4.8
My rating: 6.0 [rate 6.0]

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Improve your blog by fixing 10 things wrong

Useit.com has an excellent article titled “Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes“. It lists ten mistakes most oftenly made by bloggers. These are ten simple things that could really improve your blog. These are ten simple things that could even improve my blog.

If you are too lazy to read full article and all the reasoning behind these points, below is the summary for you. I will also mark my own progress with these.

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