Site information

Kinocite was started by K H Brown in late 2002, after he started to feel he wanted to do things a bit different from a website he had been contributing to previously, iofilm.co.uk.

The site runs on a variety of free/open source programs. MySQL provides the site database. The process of creating pages is largely automated, using a combination of Perl and Ruby scripts running at regularly scheduled intervals.

These scripts output PHP pages. The actual content of a review or article is static, to make the process of indexing pages easier and to lessen the load on the database, with PHP being used as a more powerful alternative to Server Side Includes.

A full text search of the site was formerly provided by Swish-e. Now we're just doing an inverted index search on the article contents in the database itself via our own code. .

The look of the site is deliberately kept low tech and text based. The webmaster is no good with graphics, doesn't have a decent scanner and thinks 95% per cent of graphics seen on the web are pretty much irrelevant. That's his opinion and he's sticking to it :-)

Site hosting is by Launchsite.

Thanks to George for help with the logo graphic, Jonathan for helping sourcing DVDs and the rest of the Filmsoc gang for being...

If you have any comments about any aspect of the site, please . Comments on individual reviews and articles should in the first instance be addressed to the respective contributor.