KINCHEN AT THE MOVIES: Already Great IMDB Adds U.S. TV Showings of All Movies
By David M. KinchenEditor, Huntington News Network
The Internet Movie Data Base -- www.imdb.com -- keeps getting better and better. The latest addition gives the time, date and place of the next TV showing of a movie. For instance, Liz and I are both phans (!) of Joel Schumacher’s “The Phantom of the Opera.”
We have the DVD and the soundtrack of the 2004 flick and we watch it whenever it appears on HBO. Turning to the movie listing on IMDb to see what the director and stars are up to, I learned that the next showing of the movie starring Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler and Patrick Wilson will be at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007.
Neato! Keep it up, IMDb. P.S. Joel Schumacher has several movies in the works, according to the web site. This is good news for fans of one of the best directors around. One of them -- "The Number 23" -- stars Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen. Look for it this year.
Also, I checked for a TV listing for Vincente Minnelli’s “Some Came Running” (1958) and there was none. Nada, bupkis. It’s also a crying shame that three of Minnelli’s 1950s movies – “Some Came Running,” “Home From the Hill,” and “Lust for Life” – aren’t available on DVD. This lack of DVD availability certainly limits their showing on TV.