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Best 115 entertaiment website's list
Everyone loves hearing the latest news about their favorite (or most hated) celeb, but entertainment is more than just celebrity gossip. On this top 115 entertainment sites list you will find the best online ways to stay up to date with the ever changing entertainment world.
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MOVIES
Movie City News
Claiming to be “the home page of Hollywood,” this site complies news, features, and columns from all over the web.
The unofficial bible of the entertainment world, and also the best way to cheat at the Kevin Bacon game.
Up-to-the-minute postings of recent movie trailers and exclusive clips and a convivial tone.
This movie fansite goes the extra mile with trailers, interviews, and more. It might feel a little geek-centric, but it’s got a pretty broad scope.
Everything you wanted to know about the venerable Chicago critic. Which is probably more than you wanted to know.
You want a script, odds are, they’ve got it. The ultimate site for finding movie screenplays.
The UK’s Empire is what movie magazines want to be when they grow up: sharp, funny, and super-glossy. And their site isn’t half bad, either.
Writer-director-poker aficionado Kevin Smith travels in the inner workings of Hollywood, his sex life, and his diet on this confessional diary.
film-releases.com
Wanna know what’s coming out when? Here are the studios’ release schedules for the next two years.
This film review site has become ubiquitous in Hollywood’s inner circles. If cinema’s movers and shakers are concerned about how they score, you should too.
This authoritative DVD-centric site posts release dates and exhaustively reviews discs. They’ll also report back from the front lines of the Blu-Ray/HD format wars.
A clearing house for movie trailers, both new and classic. Wanna see the promos for 48 HRS. and 300 and 2 Days in the Valley? Here’s your Final Destination. (Get it? Ah, the cleverness never stops.)
To err is human. To catalog thousands of film bloopers? Well that’s just straight-up divine.
MUSIC
An original interactive system that suggests new music based on visitors’ preexiting tastes.
For all those ”indie yuppies” keeping tabs on hot bands, upcoming concerts, and the occasional movie star.
A reliable music database of albums and songs by artists ranging from the White Stripes to Brand Nubian.
Home to artists such as Mos Def and the Roots, it’s a must for news, music, and message boards.
Pop-music commentary from a British perspective. Which means that it’s not only smart, it sounds smart, too.
A music version of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. Here, you’ll find the musicians who link the Grateful Dead to Green Day. Good for party games of the drinking variety.
A terrific source for album release dates.
COMICS/BOOKS
Smart literary observations, anecdotes, and occasional excerpts (like ”The Missionary Position,” Laila Lalami’s essay on Muslim women).
This comics news site reports and reviews the latest releases, movie tie-ins, and industry happenings.
A walking — okay, not walking, unless your computer has feet, but you know what I mean — encyclopedia about comics.
Heidi MacDonald is one of comic-dom’s premiere journalists, and this ”news blog of comics culture” is the result of her hard work.
TV
When you want hardcore TV information — ratings and analysis, scheduling shifts, etc. — this is the place to go.
The veteran TV writer holds forth on doing baseball play-by-play, having written for M*A*S*H and Cheers, and a whole mess of crappy awards show ceremonies.
Get the lowdown on fave shows, from 24 to Desperate Housewives, in witty recaps.
A new official video portal with crisp streams of NBC/Universal and Fox TV shows like 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, and The Simpsons.
VH1’s hilarious pop-culture show has an equally impressive blog. (I know that sounds a little dirty, but it is an impressive blog.)
Engage with other fans of Cartoon Network’s late-night programming by playing games and posting on message boards. Oh, and you can watch episodes of Robot Chicken and Frisky Dingo as well.
This slick site mourns critically acclaimed but ratings-challenged shows likeVeronica Mars.
STAGE
Find answers to questions like which movie hunk made his musical debut in 1971 beside Peter Allen. Or, look up any and everything related to the Great White Way. (It’s Richard Gere).
NEWS/GOSSIP
An unabashedly geeky source for movie news. The geek core here, led by Harry Knowles, has also been known to affect the trajectory of films in production
Tired of unsubstantiated celeb gossip? PEOPLE’s website broke the news of Suri Cruise’s birth and posted the first pics of Brangelina’s spawn, Shiloh.
Michael Musto’s weekly Village Voice column chews on the latest New York gossip.
The raunchy blog by the ”queen of all media”?founder Mario Lavandeira?was one of the first to dish about Britney’s many, many woes.
Even with all these new bloggery kids on the block, the New York Post’s gossip column remains a must-read.
C’mon, you know what this is. Do we really have to explain it? Have you been under a cyberrock, lo these many years?
Bright, barbed writing, plus juicy blind items. Which are everyone’s favorite kind.
It’s not about the celeb pics — of which there are plenty — but the commentary.
Celebrity snark from Atlanta can be just as juicy as bicoastal gossip. But with a little more swagger.
One of the top videogame websites featuring an array of timely previews, reviews, and expo news.
This constantly updating blog for hardcore videogamers offers the latest buzz on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii games and hardware.
POP-POURRI: EVERYTHING ELSE THAT DIDN’T FIT BUT IS STILL AWESOME
Cofounded by Will Ferrell, the site is a hilarious rival to YouTube. Noteworthy: a toddler cussing out Ferrell, and Alec Baldwin’s voice-mail fashioned into a rant against Dora the Explorer.
The radio station that’s always erudite also comes with a refreshing sense of whimsy. You’ll feel smarter after listening. And some of us need all the smart we can get.
Think of it as a one-stop resource for summaries of film, DVD, television, book, game, and music reviews from various outlets.
The URL says it all: Visit and behold a comic compendium of some felicitously fascist felines.
Nothing to do with the Fox show — rather, a blog about religious aspects of TV and movies.
A fansite revolving around the Buffy/Angel/Firefly creator — which is frequented, and frequently posted on, by Joss Whedon himself.
Named for Sean Connery’s hood exclamation in Finding Forrester, this great time-waster features random works of cyber art.
Finally, artificial intelligence is harnessed to do something worthwhile: Play 20 Questions. (And we just found a way to waste another 48 minutes.)
Forget J-Date — all their matches are so…normal. And alive. (Okay, most of them are alive.) Find a late, great, chardonnay-loving mate.
No one should start their day without first consulting the nasal weirdness of the outré director’s meteorological dispatches.
The veteran humor mag. Which you probably haven’t read in a while, but is still pretty good.
Schrab makes cooler F/X with cardboard than Industrial Light & Magic, and posts it for free. Plus, he’s a comics auteur (Scud: The Disposable Assassin), which is always cool.
A collection of cartoon shorts, e-mails, and inane games starring the animated personas, Strong Bad and Homestar.
Hate the glut of online entertainment? Users not only submit videos, but vote off the clunkers.
How is an encyclopedia an entertainment site? Consider the 2,000-word entry on the Legend of Zelda videogame.
A Detroit-based guy blogs about sports, movies, music, and TV with zing (”So dark the con of Vanegas”) and raunchy slang (”douchebagalows”).
The Daily Show regular John Hodgman’s very strange body of work is online.
According to the site’s letterhead: Philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, trends, breakthroughs, disputes, gossip. So, yeah, high-brow, not Lowenbrau.
All the cool kids are doing their social networking here. So should you. Because you wanna be cool, too, right?
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