TV Article The 100 Greatest Websites The best spots on the net for info, entertainment, and just plain wasting time. By EW Staff Published on December 21, 2007 05:00AM EST MOVIES Movie City News moviecitynews.com Claiming to be “the home page of Hollywood,” this site complies news, features, and columns from all over the web. Internet Movie Database imdb.com The unofficial bible of the entertainment world, and also the best way to cheat at the Kevin Bacon game. JoBlo.com JoBlo.com Up-to-the-minute postings of recent movie trailers and exclusive clips and a convivial tone. Dark Horizons Dark Horizons 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. RogerEbert.com RogerEbert.com Everything you wanted to know about the venerable Chicago critic. Which is probably more than you wanted to know. Eccentric Cinema Eccentric Cinema A veritable trash/treasure trove for die-hard genre buffs and cult-film fanatics. SimplyScripts simplyscripts.com You want a script, odds are, they’ve got it. The ultimate site for finding movie screenplays. Empire Onlineempireonline.comThe 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. My Boring Ass Life silentbobspeaks.com Writer-director-poker aficionado Kevin Smith travels in the inner workings of Hollywood, his sex life, and his diet on this confessional diary. Box Office Mojo boxofficemojo.com The best online tracker of box office tallies, both foreign and domestic. Film-Releases.com film-releases.com Wanna know what’s coming out when? Here are the studios’ release schedules for the next two years. Rotten Tomatoes rottentomatoes.com 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. The Digital Bits digitalbits.com 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. Movie Listmovie-list.comA 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.) Movie Mistakes.com moviemistakes.com To err is human. To catalog thousands of film bloopers? Well that’s just straight-up divine. Next: MUSIC MUSIC Miss Info missinfo.tv This sassy webmistress spins news and gossip from the hip-hop front. Pandora pandora.com An original interactive system that suggests new music based on visitors’ preexiting tastes. Woxy.com woxy.com Internet radio station featuring rising artists such as Bad Veins and The Lions Rampant. Beware of the Blog blog.wfmu.org New Jersey’s free-form cult radio station kicks it. Stereogum stereogum.com For all those ”indie yuppies” keeping tabs on hot bands, upcoming concerts, and the occasional movie star. Last.fm last.fm Connecting users with others who share the same music interests. Neat, huh? All Music allmusic.com A reliable music database of albums and songs by artists ranging from the White Stripes to Brand Nubian. Fluxblog fluxblog.org A blog for MP3 fans, collating and presenting a wide variety of music, from pop to funk. Okayplayer.com okayplayer.com Home to artists such as Mos Def and the Roots, it’s a must for news, music, and message boards. Dusted Magazine dustedmagazine.com A consistently well-written music-review site. Pop Justice popjustice.com Pop-music commentary from a British perspective. Which means that it’s not only smart, it sounds smart, too. BandToBand.com bandtoband.com 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. Pitchfork pitchforkmedia.com It’s either a collection of insightful music criticism or mean-spirited reviews, but either way, the Chicago-based site is a tastemaker. Pollstar pollstar.com The best source of national concert listings, broken down by venue. RCRD LBL rcrdlbl.com This site offers free, legal music downloads from online labels and indie acts AOL Music music.aol.com A giant music site and Mac-friendly destination for music videos. PauseandPlay.com pauseandplay.com A terrific source for album release dates. Next: COMICS/BOOKS COMICS/BOOKS Penny Arcade ?penny-arcade.com” Get your geek on with this hilarious and smart webcomic for gamers. Maud Newton maudnewton.com Smart literary observations, anecdotes, and occasional excerpts (like ”The Missionary Position,” Laila Lalami’s essay on Muslim women). Newsarama newsarama.com This comics news site reports and reviews the latest releases, movie tie-ins, and industry happenings. Comics101.com comics101.com A walking — okay, not walking, unless your computer has feet, but you know what I mean — encyclopedia about comics. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency mcsweeneys.net It’s affiliated with the lit journal?hilarious and smart. The Beat pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/ Heidi MacDonald is one of comic-dom’s premiere journalists, and this ”news blog of comics culture” is the result of her hard work. Blog of a Bookslut bookslut.com/blog A guide to lit-world scandals. Yummy. Comics.comcomics.comMissed today’s Dilbert? Catch up on all the latest comic strips here. Next: TV TV The Programming Insider www.mediaweek.com/mw/newsletters/proginsider/index.jsp When you want hardcore TV information — ratings and analysis, scheduling shifts, etc. — this is the place to go. The Futon Critic thefutoncritic.com Features a section on all shows in development, sorted by network. By Ken Levinekenlevine.blogspot.comThe 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. Television Without PityTelevisionWithoutPity.comGet the lowdown on fave shows, from 24 to Desperate Housewives, in witty recaps. Huluhulu.comA new official video portal with crisp streams of NBC/Universal and Fox TV shows like 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, and The Simpsons. TVgasm tvgasm.com Friendly fandom oozes from this site’s recaps and message boards. Reality News Online realitynewsonline.com The place for post-elimination interviews with reality contestants. Best Week Ever BestWeekEver.tv VH1’s hilarious pop-culture show has an equally impressive blog. (I know that sounds a little dirty, but it is an impressive blog.) Adult Swimadultswim.comEngage 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. Brilliant But CancelledBrilliantbutcancelled.comThis slick site mourns critically acclaimed but ratings-challenged shows like Veronica Mars. Next: STAGE & NEWS/GOSSIP STAGE About Last Night artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight Terry Teachout’s erudite theater and arts blog. Broadway.com broadway.com Theater hub with news, tickets, and interviews with stars like David Hyde Pierce. Internet Broadway Database ibdb.com 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 Ain’t It Cool News Ain’t It Cool News 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 TMZ tmz.com When Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, or Britney Spears does something stupid, TMZ is there. Defamer defamer.com Nobody does snarky Hollywood gossip like these bloggers. People.com people.com 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. La Dolce Mustovillagevoice.comMichael Musto’s weekly Village Voice column chews on the latest New York gossip. Perez Hilton PerezHilton.com 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. PageSix.compageSix.comEven with all these new bloggery kids on the block, the New York Post‘s gossip column remains a must-read. WeSmirch.com wesmirch.com A solid aggregator of celebrity news. The Huffington Post huffingtonpost.com C’mon, you know what this is. Do we really have to explain it? Have you been under a cyberrock, lo these many years? Go Fug Yourself GoFugYourself.com Saucy attacks on celeb fashion foibles with annotations of red-carpet pics. LaineyGossip.com laineygossip.com Bright, barbed writing, plus juicy blind items. Which are everyone’s favorite kind. Pink Is the New Blog trent.blogspot.com It’s not about the celeb pics — of which there are plenty — but the commentary. GoldenFiddle.com GoldenFiddle.com Celebrity snark from Atlanta can be just as juicy as bicoastal gossip. But with a little more swagger. UsMagazine.com usmagazine.com Even big gossip rags blog now. Because that’s where it’s at, yo. Next: VIDEOGAMES & EVERYTHING ELSE VIDEOGAMES GameSpot.com gamespot.com One of the top videogame websites featuring an array of timely previews, reviews, and expo news. Wonderland crystaltips.typepad.com An insightful gaming blog from the BBC’s Alice Taylor. Joystiq.com Joystiq.com This constantly updating blog for hardcore videogamers offers the latest buzz on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii games and hardware. GamePolitics.com GamePolitics.com For truly avid gamers, gaming legislation is a serious concern. GameVideos.com GameVideos.com Consider this the videogame version of YouTube. Share your pwnage with the world. POP-POURRI: EVERYTHING ELSE THAT DIDN’T FIT BUT IS STILL AWESOME USA Today’s Pop Candy blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy Whitney Matheson?who looks a little like Zooey Deschanel?brings you all the geek goodies from around the web. And she’s funny. And she hearts comics. Which means that we heart her. YouTube YouTube Duh. FunnyOrDie.com funnyordie.com 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. National Public Radio npr.org 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. Metacritic.com metacritic.com Think of it as a one-stop resource for summaries of film, DVD, television, book, game, and music reviews from various outlets. Cats That Look Like Hitler catsthatlooklikehitler.com The URL says it all: Visit and behold a comic compendium of some felicitously fascist felines. Idol Chatter beliefnet.com/blogs/idolchatter Nothing to do with the Fox show — rather, a blog about religious aspects of TV and movies. Whedonesquewhedonesque.comA fansite revolving around the Buffy/Angel/Firefly creator — which is frequented, and frequently posted on, by Joss Whedon himself. You’re The Man Now Dogytmnd.comNamed for Sean Connery’s hood exclamation in Finding Forrester, this great time-waster features random works of cyber art. 20Q 20q.net Finally, artificial intelligence is harnessed to do something worthwhile: Play 20 Questions. (And we just found a way to waste another 48 minutes.) Celebrities Eating Dot Com celebrities-eating.com Just pictures of celebrities eating. That’s it. Really. Dead Celebrity Soul Mates Biography.com Forget J-Date — all their matches are so…normal. And alive. (Okay, most of them are alive.) Find a late, great, chardonnay-loving mate. David Lynch’s Daily Weather Report davidlynch.com No one should start their day without first consulting the nasal weirdness of the outré director’s meteorological dispatches. The Onion theonion.com The veteran humor mag. Which you probably haven’t read in a while, but is still pretty good. T. Herman Zweibel Memorial Historical Archivezweibelmemorial.orgOnion publisher emeritus Zweibel’s whimsy. RobSchrab.comrobschrab.comSchrab 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. MySpace myspace.com Good for social networking, plus a home for tunes by rising bands. Homestar Runner homestarrunner.com A collection of cartoon shorts, e-mails, and inane games starring the animated personas, Strong Bad and Homestar. Channel101.com Channel101.com Hate the glut of online entertainment? Users not only submit videos, but vote off the clunkers. WikipediaWikipedia.comHow is an encyclopedia an entertainment site? Consider the 2,000-word entry on the Legend of Zelda videogame. JamesWolcott.comjameswolcott.comA Vanity Fair editor’s pop-culture analysis. Tres smart. Whatevs (dot org) whatevs.org A Detroit-based guy blogs about sports, movies, music, and TV with zing (”So dark the con of Vanegas”) and raunchy slang (”douchebagalows”). The Areas of My Expertiseareasofmyexpertise.comThe Daily Show regular John Hodgman’s very strange body of work is online. Baseball Card Blog baseballcardblog.blogspot.com Go ahead — indulge your inner fifth grader from 1963. We won’t tell. Slate.com slate.com Witty real-world coverage, from politics to pop culture. Arts & Letters Daily aldaily.com 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. Facebook facebook.com All the cool kids are doing their social networking here. So should you. Because you wanna be cool, too, right?