By Mike McKiernan Fri, May 8, 2009, 12:01 am PDT

Yahoo! Movies Summer Movie Guide A couple months ago, I spat out my top picks for this summer's big movies. Now that the summer movie season is officially here, I'd like to share the best of the season's movie guides that have recently launched into cyberspace, and point out their coolest features: Yahoo! Movies: Our very own movie guide is pretty neato, if I say so myself. It features a horizontal scroll of all the season's movies, starting with this week's releases. All titles can be listed by month, genre, or popularity, we have tons of video clips (in addition to the trailers), and in the top right corner of the homepage is a "Box Office Showdown" with financial results for all the films released so far. Moviefone: Moviefone just loves photo slideshows, so that's what most of their features consist of. Nonetheless, they have some useful ones, like guides for Family Movies, Chick Flicks, and Indie Sleepers. The homepage also has a nifty "Highlights" section to scroll through the biggest movies of the season, and their HD trailers section is pretty darn nice, I have to admit. Entertainment Weekly: EW.com has one of my favorite features -- a single-page calendar of the entire summer. Their guide also includes the magazine's feature articles and several interesting photo galleries (although "Matthew McConaughey, Shirtless: A History" just makes me want to puke, personally). Hollywood.com: Several nice features on this one, such as streaming trailers on the homepage and many cool goodies like the Star Trek Handbook (which includes a face-off between the original cast and J.J. Abrams'), a "10 Characters Sure to Die This Summer" (SPOILER ALERT -- careful with that one), "Celeb Flick Picks," where celebrities tell us which summer blockbuster they're jonesin' to see, and even a (fairly well hidden) "Five Flicks to Skip" list, which earns bonus points for including McConaughey's movie. Fandango: The other major movie ticket service has a decent guide, with some unique features, including a Flash-based summer movie trivia game, several Top 10 lists (such as "Top 10 TV Show Movies"), and a really cool "Road Trips" feature about the filming locations used in "Star Trek" and "Wolverine." Rotten Tomatoes: For you webkids who need your info NOW, the aggregating pros at R.T. have the entire summer schedule on their guide's homepage. Other than the ability to scroll through a quick preview of each film, that's pretty much it, but having the schedule all in one place is actually a very cool thing. Maxim.com: Finally, we have another "I want it all, NOW!" guide with all the biggies on one page, but this one includes all the trailers embedded from YouTube, which is great for some quick viewing. The only problem is that you get only whatever trailers were available when this "Ultimate Guide" was created, so for "Transformers," it's the first trailer, not the most recent one (which some say is not as good as the original teaser, so maybe it's a good thing). There are other Summer Movie Guides out there (see our category below), but those are the best of them. Hopefully they can help you decide which movie to spend your hard-earned cash on. Have fun! Suggested Sites... Apple.com Trailers - watch high quality trailers for upcoming movies -- summer and beyond. Kids-In-Mind - movie reviews for parents, including all the releases, not just family films. Wikipedia: 2009 in Film - all about this year's movies, with a full schedule from January-December.

Directory categories: Summer Movie Guides, Summer Movies, Upcoming Movies

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