IPhone TV And Movie Guide: Very Useful In Different Ways



An iPhone movie guide can really be a lot of help. If you know how to use it, it’s like having Roger Ebert in your pocket to help you impress friends. Of course, you have to know how to use it, where to use it and when to use it. Here are just a few questions you can answer with a movie guide on your iPhone…

What Was His Name Again…?

Whenever you’re in the middle of a conversation and you suddenly space on the name of an actor that you SHOULD be able to name, just whip out the ol’ iPhone. You can figure out who it was by cross referencing the movies you know they’ve been. “Let’s see, he was one of the bank robbers in Heat, and he was in True Romance and Natural Born Killers… Ah! Tom Sizemore!” Sooner or later, we all have those “senior moments” no matter how old we are, where we forget things that we know by heart. iPhones have been remedying this problem from the beginning.

So… What do YOU Want to See?

This is, of course, the primary function of a movie guide. If there are a dozen movies on cable and you don’t feel like going to your computer to look them up, if you’re at the theater and can’t decide which movie to see, or if you have a few bucks to blow where you buy your DVDs and don’t mind taking a chance on something you haven’t seen before, the movie guide is there for you. It can really help settle debates on what to see by simply looking at what’s getting the best reviews or which one sounds more entertaining.

Isn’t That Actor/Director Dead?

In this day and age, the big studios own the theaters. This means that any director or actor without a big studio contract is releasing all of their movies direct to DVD or through other avenues. So, it’s not always easy to tell if Corey Feldman is still around, or if Roger Corman is still making movies. With your iPhone guide, you can answer that question in seconds flat and maybe discover some hidden gem of a film in the meantime. It’s too bad the theater market has changed so much, but at least the Internet gives us the chance to keep up with favorite film makers who haven’t been in the big leagues for awhile.

Was That Movie Any Good?

How many times have you gone to see that big movie everyone’s been talking about only to find that it was a stinker? With iPhone TV guide, one of the main things you can do is look and see what others are saying about that movie before you drop any money on those eight to ten dollar tickets. Obviously, the personal TV and movie companion largely subjective, but the idea is to read the reviews, not just look at the star ratings. So maybe Roger Ebert thought it stunk because it was all action from one end to the next with no character development. Maybe that makes it perfect for you, though.