Film Blogs, Etc. 2.0

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One of my favorite things that I created during my first go-round as a blogger was a Google Customized Search Engine (CSE) called Film Blogs, Etc. When I returned to regularly watching movies and researching them late last year, I once again found myself in need of an easy way to track down the kind of high-quality open access film criticism often missed by review aggregators like Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes (both of which, to be fair, have become much more inclusive since then) and film studies databases like the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals and Film & Television Literature with Full Text. Thus was born Film Blogs, Etc. 2.0, which can be accessed through the following link:

http://cse.google.com/cse?cx=011362720037851721152:9nheu0l1d0s

Like I did previously, I will maintain a list of sites searched by this CSE on this blog post (which I will also link to on my “About” page for easy access) following the jump along with a “last updated” date. The best way I’ve found to use Film Blogs, Etc. 2.0 to find information about a specific film is by searching for the title of the film in quotation marks followed by the last name of the director, as per the following example:

“prince of darkness” carpenter

If you’re looking for information about an actor, director, or other individual, the best approach seems to be inputting the name of that person in quotation marks:

“john carpenter”

Film Blogs, Etc. 2.0 also accepts Boolean logic, so if you’re looking for information about either Prince of Darkness or Assault on Precinct 13, you could use the following search:

“prince of darkness” OR “assault on precinct 13” carpenter

The search |”prince of darkness” “assault on precinct 13” carpenter| without the OR would return results that contain both the phrases “prince of darkness” and “assault on precinct 13” as well as the name carpenter.

Without further ado, then, the list of sites currently included on Film Blogs, Etc. 2.0 follows the jump!

Film Blogs, Etc. 2.0 was last updated on May 5, 2024 and currently searches the following 161 websites, which are listed in alphabetical order by title:

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