NFB Films streams over 1,000 shorts and feature-length films to your iPhone .

Like indie films? Documentaries? Animation? Ho, boy, have I got an app for you: NFB Films lets you watch over a thousand movies on your iPhone . For free.

The “NFB” stands for National Film Board, a kind of Canadian PBS. The app taps the NFB’s mammoth library of documentaries, animated films, trailers (for upcoming (more…)

Scan the bookshelves of any serious movie buff and you’re almost certain to find a worn, dog-eared copy of “Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide.”

Of course, just as encyclopedias work far better as interactive, online guides like Wikipedia, so do reference tomes like this benefit from the digital treatment.

Enter Leonard Maltin Movie Guide for iPhone ($4.99), which not only reproduces the full text (more…)