I used to have a paper-based method for both movies & music, writing down titles of new releases with good reviews from Entertainment Weekly, to which I don't subscribe anymore, so that I could then keep track of things to watch & listen. For music this worked pretty well, because the library system was pretty good at ordering new & current music. But because of the delay in a movie being in the theater to when it actually comes out on video, I never did very well at keeping track of current movies to watch ("current" meaning within the last 2 years).
Having been using Google Reader now for a year or so, it finally dawned on me that if I had a good movie review feed, that I would be able to star new movies that I want to see, and then after doing this for 6 months to a year, I would be able to go back in my star archive for that feed in Google Reader and have a list of movies to request from the library.
So I started searching for movie review RSS feeds. At first EW's feed looked perfect--the title & score is in the post title. Unfortunately the feed contains many duplicate entries, which is unacceptable because it would annoy me to no end. So, I searched for more feeds, and each one I came across wasn't good because it didn't put the score in the post title or content--too inefficient to have to go to the original site to get the rating. After about 5 more minutes of searching, I found RogerEbert's which is not perfect, but ok--the movie title & score is in the post title, but the feed contains more than just movie reviews. It also has repeat entries in it, but not at the rate EW's does. Also better than EW's, it actually contains a little bit of the review in the post content.Lastly another plug for Google Reader - their database contains posts from Ebert's feed all the way back to October 2005. So I can star movies I want to watch back a few years to when I stopped using my paper-based system.
