HelloMovies Blog

1. Kiss the Bride (available now on Hulu and YouTube)

Three Italian-American sisters who have managed to break free of their family’s overbearing influence, most notably their controlling father’s, must face the clan again when their more traditional sibling decides to get married in their Rhode Island hometown. The visit turns out as excruciating as they [...]

Hola!
Here’s a quick tasty update for y’all.

We’ve updated the homepage – far, far sexier.
Check out our brand-spankin’-new explore page!  You can see all the hotness going on around our site, and also a heck of a lot of movie nuts.
Here’s a little feature-ette; right on your profile page, see who’s following you and who you’re [...]

Palo Alto, California — Stardate -313845 (aka: February 26th, 2009; For Pete’s Sake Day, National Pistachio Day, Johnny Cash’s Birthday, Blue Jeans Day)
Today, we are excited to announce the OFFICIAL LAUNCH of hellomovies.com … we’re live, baby!
*Cue music, dancing girls, delicious herbal tea, flannel PJs, laptops and media centers!*
What does the launch of Hellomovies.com mean [...]

Say what you will about the Academy Awards.  It’s trash /too political / full of silly moments that make Hollywood look stupid / etc. etc., etc.  All those criticisms have some merit.  But let’s face it – no awards ceremony is perfect.  And the Oscars is our imperfect King.
You no doubt know the skinny on [...]

We pushed out some new updates on the site!
1. You can now see RottenTomatoes and IMDB ratings under each movie poster on the Browse page.
2. You can now see what other users have rated different movies and compare them with your own ratings.
3. You can now rate the movies you see on other people’s profiles.
Check [...]

We recently started a Twitter page to keep people updated with our recent news. You can find us here at http://twitter.com/hellomovies
We currently have about 600 followers interacting with us and hope many of you will join us in the conversation!

Pushed a few changes to the site today:
- Users can now upload movie posters and profile pics.
- We fixed the bug where some of the sliders get stuck underneath one another.
- We added functionality to rate movies upon hovering over a movie poster. This clears up some space and makes the Browse Page even simpler.
- [...]

We brought back the newsfeed this week so users now have a way to see recent activity on the site.  It’s a  convenient way to discover new movies to watch based on what people are actively rating and tagging.

We also have a new top movie watcher on the site who has watched 855 movies and [...]

Is it similar plot elements?  Technical details, such as what lighting filter a director chooses?  Is it a common character archetype, such as the “anti-hero” or “mad scientist?”  The emotions a movie evokes?  Length?  Simply genre?  Actors, writers, directors?  All of the above?
Or does it depend on the individual user?
It’s tough.  Movies are so darned [...]

We’re building out genres in the Movie Genome Project at the moment, and it’s going splendidly.  With hundreds of different genres, we’re making the movie discovery process pretty damn exciting!  Movie snobs, rejoice.  Here’s a list of the top ten cult films, as calculated by our site:

Donnie Darko
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Snakes on a Plane
Napoleon [...]