Our good friends over at Total Film want to award the best of the film blogging community, and it’s no surprise that their list of nominees includes a good number of LAMBs. Show your support and go vote. Details and ballots can be found here: http://www.totalfilm.com/features/the-2011-total-film-movie-blog-awards.
This isn’t a typical PLUG from a LAMB site nor is it a Press Release from a third party, but a notification of sorts about the coverage that one of the LAMB’s partner sites, Total Film, is doing on Cannes. It’s really quite extensive, and I thought it deserved recommendation:
Here’s the main page: http://www.totalfilm.com/cannes2010
And, just for fun, here are a few of the video reactions that they’ve put up. Be sure to check out the Russell Crowe interview:
* http://www.totalfilm.com/features/cannes-2010-wall-street-2-reaction
* http://www.totalfilm.com/features/cannes-2010-robin-hood-reaction
* http://www.totalfilm.com/features/cannes-2010-russell-crowe-the-big-interview
They’ve also got their official Robin Hood review up:
* http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/robin-hood-1
Got a Press Release, something to Plug, or a Screener available for review (or some combination of the three)? Ok, don’t get all crazy about it. Just click here and give me the details (what, when, where, and a link, for starters) - I’ll handle the rest.
I was notified earlier this morning by Sam Turner at thistimeitwillbedifferent that UK film magazine Total Film published an article today called 600 Movie Blogs You Might Have Missed, a fairly definitive list of many movie blogs that are active in and around the movie blogging community.
Not surprisingly, members of the LAMB are heavily involved. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to scan more than a couple names on the 10-page list without coming across one; by my totally unofficial count, I’d say that there are at least 300 LAMBs making up the list, some of which are even lucky enough to get their site banners included as part of a gallery.
I got in touch with the author (Dan Goodswen) to thank him for the list and make him aware of the LAMB (if he wasn’t already, which he was), and he had this to say:
I had an intern helping with research for the article and she found the LAMB pretty early on - in all our research you were the only site with a comprehensive list of blogs, so we found it extremely useful, and are endebted to you for our 600 blogs feature.
My intention with the list was to create a one stop shop for the cream of movie blogs out there (I was aiming for 1000), but we quickly realised this would be near impossible, with the vast amount of blogs out there and the frequency of blogs closing and opening. Making a 100% accurate list was just too ambitious, so i capped the list at 600, and let my intern of the hook (she was a babbling, incoherent mess by that point). So the feature is something of a success, in drawing attention to all these great blogs, but unfortunately there were many I didn’t find - hopefully i can do a follow up feature down the line, 400 More Movie Blogs You Might Have Missed or something.
If you wish to help Dan and TotalFilm out, there’s a comments section at the bottom of the post where users are posting their “forgotten” sites; if you don’t see yours on the list, go ahead and register and add it to the comments.
Thanks to TotalFilm for spotlighting so many hard-working bloggers out there, and to Sam for alerting me to this quickly.
