Jim Craddock

This was one of a small collection, used at least partly as a reference for crossword solving.

Much fun, but no longer necessary.

Being a definitive accumulation of reviews, ratings, and cast and technical headliners for zillions of motion pictures. There are also various finding approaches for the user which involve award-winners, personal search, and themes of the films. As always, the ratings need to be taken with a grain of salt, but that is a factor inherent in evaluating a medium which derives a lot of its fun and popularity by people disagreeing.

Okay, maybe this book is completely irrelevant with the internet and www.IMDB.com, but it is a really great film reference that you can search by actor, movie, director, etc. If the book is on the table and you are watching TV without your iPad, there is no better way than to figure out who that actor is you just can't quite place.