Windows Phone Thoughts: Movie Mastery On The Go: MoviesCE v2.1 Review

Data Entry Part 2 - What you get back from the Internet
Once you've found your movie and selected it, a variety of basic details are displayed, such as the director, first four actors, studio, running time, age rating, etc. One minor problem here is that the actors list is an alphabetical list of seemingly all the cast, and because there's only space for four you don't always see the main stars.


Figure 4: The cast and cover image page.

You also get a (very) short plot synopsis, some quotes and an image of the DVD cover. The ability to download covers seems trivial at first, but actually seeing your movie, 'in the flesh' as it were, really makes a big difference.


Figure 5: The technical information page.


Figure 6: The plot synopsis page.

The quotes are also surprisingly good; there's typically a large and interesting selection for most movies, and all your favourites are there.


Figure 7: The quotes page.

On the downside, I found that several movies had incomplete details, such as missing director and actors (The Two Towers four disc box set), missing story and quotes (Ronin) or no cover image (Goldeneye special edition). Obviously you can always fill in the blanks yourself, and in the case of covers you can load in your own scanned images, but that just seems like too much effort to me.


Figure 8: The full technical information page.

In fact, you have to enter some details yourself anyway. Once you've clicked to save the selected movie, you're presented with more detailed screens where you can enter the DVD region, sound format, screen aspect ratio and category. Unfortunately you can only assign a single category to each movie, whereas I wanted to have combinations such as 'Fantasy' and 'Children', or 'Science-Fiction' and 'Animation'.