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

Data Entry Part 3 - Your own Personal Information
Once you have the main details sorted, you can then enter your own more specific information about each movie, such as when you last saw it, whether it's loaned to anyone plus some free-text notes. Here the application allows you to cheat a bit as there's also an 'Owner' checkbox, so you can record all the movies you'd like to own as well as those you already do.


Figure 9: The strangely named 'Check Movies' screen for entering your own movie attributes.

So Then, What Shall I Watch Tonight?
Phew, having got all the raw data in, it's time to sit back and wallow in the bounteous information resource you've created. A variety of questions spring to mind:

• Which movies haven't I seen for at least six months? Or twelve months?
  
• I've got only an hour and a half to kill - what can I see in that time?
  
• What were the exact words spoken by Maximus when he revealed his identity in Gladiator? Or the jive dudes in Airplane? Or Matthew's eulogy to Gareth in Four Weddings and a Funeral?
  
• Which horror movies do I own? Which science-fiction ones?
  
• Which of my movies were directed by Ridley Scott? Or Martin Scorsese? Or Ron Howard?

Figure 10: The filter selection screen.

You can answer many of these and more besides, but unfortunately the first question - and by far the most useful in my opinion - can't be answered by MoviesCE. You can search for those movies not seen at all, i.e. irrespective of date, but how many of your films are you not likely to have ever seen?


Figure 11: The main list filtered to show action movies only, and with covers un-zoomed.

Overall the filter criteria are pretty limited, and there's also no way to further refine the results of a previous search.