A short user’s guide to the Cynical Cinema website.
It has been brought to my attention by a couple of people today that this website can be daunting at first glance. That is because I have limited computer skills and I don’t know how to make it any easier. In order to comment on a review, you have to click on the “no comments” link on the bottom. Or the “1 comment” or “2 comments” or whatever it may be. Because there is apparently a lot of spam out there, you have to write a word you see in a box next to the comment section. Although I have that spam filter going, I still somehow get thirty spam messages a day, so I have to approve them. Your comment will appear within a day of you making it, and I will not refuse to approve any comments. Even the comments on the Family Ties review that are mean to MacGyver. They hurt my feelings, and, I’m sure, those of Richard Dean Anderson, but I put ‘em up anyway. On the right, the audio reviews can be played in mp3 form. This is the stuff you may have heard on the air, and the stuff you would have heard on the air had it been run. This is divided into sections alphabetically, and that portion contains all the reviews that are available. Further sections are as follows:
New Releases - All the releases for the current week that have been reviewed, as well as the previous three weeks.
Movies to watch before you die - Self-explanatory. Watch all these movies. Before you die.
Coming up in CHEZ nation - Reviews of the DVDs being given away in CHEZ nation this week, and the days they are available. So you can decide whether or not you are willing to spend those hard-earned points. Not all the DVDs that are available in CHEZ nation will be reviewed, because I am not always allowed a copy to see before it is available for a giveaway.
Movies on The Movie Network - I just added this one today. This is all the movies playing on TMN and MPix for this month that have been reviewed. Also the movies that will be premiering next month are listed at the top. Many people tell me that they don’t rent movies and they don’t go to movies, they just pick the ones that are on TV already. So I have decided to add this section to hopefully help a bit.
Interviews - Exclusive Cynical Cinema interviews with various figures in the film world. Currently, that consists of just one, with Sharkwater director Rob Stewart. But hopefully there will be more soon, when I get the time. And when I can convince people to talk to me.
OK, that’s it. Oh, one more thing. At the bottom of this particular post, you will see something that says “Administrative stuff”. If you click on it, you will see a list of all the administrative stuff that has been posted on this website. When you see these little places to click at the bottom of the review, the same thing applies. If there is one that says “drama”, you will be shown a list of all dramas that have been reviewed by Cynical Cinema. If you click on “garbage”, you will be re-directed to a list of all the garbage. The fact that the “garbage” tag so often coincides with the “Steven Seagal” tag is just that. A coincidence. Don’t read too much into it.