Films and Film Review Basics
Search VCat to find films in the Library
VCat searches titles, names (actors, performers, directors, production crew, writers, composers, studios...), subjects, year of release, and individual words that appear in a film's plot summary.
Or Browse the Video Catalog by:
Title to see an alphabetical list of films. Brief descriptive information for the film is included with each entry.
Actor or
Director to see a hyperlinked, alphabetical list of all actors or directors in all available films.
Year
to see an alphabetical list of films organized by the decade of their original release. Brief descriptive information for the film is included with each entry.
For Film Reviews
Search the
EBSCO Megafile database for film reviews
from 1983 to the present.
Search Hint: Try a search using the film director's last name and the title of the film
For films released before 1983, try the
Readers Guide Retrospective database.
For
scholarly essays on films, use the
MLA International Bibliography database.