Have a general question? Need help with some thing on the site? Have a bug you would like to report? Well then, you have come to the right place. No matter what you are having trouble with, we would like to help you find a solution. And maybe, through your own experience with the site, you will want to help other users too. That's what communities are all about. 

A group of Spout's best reviewers.
Read the requirements.

Join the conversation, or start some of your own. Add to lists (help people find movies to love). Find people who love sci-fi as much as you, and decide the winners: Wolverine vs. Hellboy, Batman vs. Rorschach, or Transformers vs. G.I. Joe.

This is a friendly environment where writers, directors, actors, editors and aspiring filmmakers can talk about and share ideas.  Anything is fair game, technical questions, help with working out ideas or promoting your work.

Open membership, just join!

Casting ideas for the optioned, pre-productioned, rumored and otherwise purgatory-ed films of the (possible) future. Ideas for who should play Captain America in the (inevitable) adaptation? Let'd hear it fanboy! Post-David Craig Bond idea? Sure. Wanna start an argument? Hells yeah!

The 15th Annual Slamdance Film Festival will be held January 15-23, 2009.

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A group for Michiganders to congregate on Spout.

All in Michigan are welcome, but population dictates that southeastern lower Michigan will likely dominate.

Check out the discussions...

Since 1974, Labor Day weekend in Telluride has been film-lover heaven. Join this group to talk about Telluride.

"Our vision was to create a festival whereby filmmakers of all walks of life could submit their feature films to the festival and be judged by an international jury of their peers via a web-based competition" -Philip J. Nelson, President of Independent Features

Independent Features was created by two independent filmmakers who learned first hand how hard it is to find an independent film an audience. After completing their first independent feature in March of 2001, they ran into the same predicament most independent filmmakers find themselves in. They found it very hard to find their film an audience. After years of working outside of the film industry they talked about giving it another shot, they always loved independent film. Instead of producing another film they decided to go another direction, they created a platform that would give independent filmmakers a global audience. Independent Features pioneered the first film festival in which film selection is done ONLINE via a web-based competition. The 2008 competition will take place through June 30th with the top 21 films receiving an invitation to the Independent Features Film Festival. The festival will take place July 25-27 at the acclaimed Tribeca Cinemas in Lower Manhattan.

Welcome to the official Spout group for the Toronto International Film Festival 08. This is your porthole to all things TIFF08. We will be there reporting on the latest news and reviewing the latest films that you're going to want to see. So check back here to see what people are talking about and to access the list of films to see the reviews and news.

staying informed to better serve the films and the community

At some point you just want more than what's right in front of you.

Sound on Sight proudly brings you two podcasts each week. Voted best podcast in 2008, these hard working hosts cover everything from mainstream Hollywood films to noir, horror, science fiction, cult cinema, documentary film making and more. Look out for a new show added every Tuesday and Thursday morning.

http://www.soundonsight.org/

Each week I will post a new poll.  Please vote in the poll and reply to the discussion thread to discuss the question.  Please do not vote more than once.

Join us to discuss your favorite or most horrifying Zombie Movies or just your most memorable Zombie Moments.  From Funny to Scary to Gory to Bizarre...

This is a group for members to start and organize movie marathons. Its primary purpose is to get more people exposed to more film. And to watch these films and discuss them as a group.

Anyone can start a marathon and marathons can be organized in many different ways to showcase the films of a director, actor, genre, theme etc...

Check the Guidlines and Suggestions discussion for ideas.

This group is dedicated to the idea that great movie recommendations can come from another person instead of some fancy computer software. So put our community to the test. And who knows maybe you will find yourself making some recommendations of your own, feel free.

Seeing as few groups have had much going on lately, I thought I'd throw a group up just to see who still stops by.  Since the genre groups all died, feel free to talk about what youre watching. Or doing. Or the other film dork sites you visit.  Or botany, Russian lit, astrophysics...

A group for people who enjoy movie credit sequences (at the beginning or the end) because of their motion graphics, their tail music, their concept, their typography, their information, their ingenuity, their hidden humor or SIMPLY BECAUSE you like to respect the filmmakers and sit through all of their names.

This group is all about sharing the fun of independent film in western Michigan.  We can make lists of the films that screen and films we love as well as discuss the films and events we partake in of thee Waterfront Film Festival.

We can also use this group to help others on 'how' to Waterfront.  Saugatuck is a small coastal town with big sandy dunes, great towny bars, several ice cream stands, quaint B&Bs, great shopping, talented artists, and the best quirky venues a festival could ask for.

** this is a fan site **

For more information, go to the festival website: www.waterfrontfilm.org

Film lovers often observe ... and sometimes complain ... that high-profile movies that depict people with disabilities get lots of mainstream praise and awards because the films tug at peoples' heartstrings. It's also been observed that depicting a disabled person is an "easy" way for actors to get credit for what is seen as "difficult" portrayals. Yet, this can also be viewed cynically as cheap "stunt acting".

But, what does cinema throughout history say about the experience of living with disabilities? What constitutes a "positive" portrayal vs. a "negative" one?

Play interactive movie games and quizzes, show off fun facts you know about film. Create your own games about movies, challenge others with movie trivia.

B movies are like the original Not Ready for Primetime Players--funny, brave, brainless, learned, rowdy, rough, ribald, and dangerous. 

B movies can be like a seven dollar bottle of champagne, miles away from the real thing but every bit as fun. (Semi-Pro)

They can be like absinthe, so bizarre you wonder if you're actually enjoying yourself. Nobody else will be able to tell you. (Eraserhead)

They can be like moonshine. Lightning in a bottle, you wonder how the maker captured it, you wonder if they even know how good it is or if they could do it again. (The Night of the Hunter)

They're like surprise hard cider. Something that's been set aside, and then you find it by accident, take a tentative sip, and it knocks you to the floor! (Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women)  

They're like straight Yagermeister, the kind with deerblood and mercury in it. An acquired taste that never lets you forget how dangerous it is, and others can't fathom why you're in love with it. (Wicker Man--1974).

Have you ever recalled a film from youth, then seen it again as an adult, only to gain an entirely new perspective on the film (and in some cases it is an entirely different film from the one you remember)?