Furthermore, the ‘tours’ feature is still superb. The curated lists, for instance, allow you to follow genres of film and get appropriate recommendations. What’s more, one of the things that Cinemania gave you, that IMDb struggles with, is a clear path of recommendations. There’s inevitably more audio (and even more portraits and stills), and the range here – given rights issues and space demands – is admirable. It wasn’t much, but it felt like gold dust. Cinemania 97‘s treats include snippets from then-modern features such as Forrest Gump and The Silence Of The Lambs, through to 1922’s Nosferatu and 1935’s The 39 Steps. It can’t just have been me that used to play these clips pretty much on a loop. It’s the kind of thing that’d have you sending a technical support ticket to YouTube today.īut back in the mid-90s? It was something of a revolution. By Cinemania 97, we had long got movie clips too, albeit in resolution that now looks ropey, even in a window the size of a few postage stamps. By this final edition, content sources included reviews by Roger Ebert, Leonard Maltin and Pauline Kael for a start, and there was as much “multimedia” (remember when we called it that?) as one CD-ROM could handle.Īs such, when most of us first got our hands on Cinemania – and it used to be bundled with delights as Golf, Microsoft Animals and such like with a new PC – it was the audio we first headed for. I always got the sense that there was a whole lot more the editors wanted to include but couldn’t, even though they have us plenty to feast on.
Loading up Cinemania 97 on a modern PC now, the first impression remains as it was then: clearly a resource that’s straining at its technological fences.
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