I've just released my first iPhone app. It's called Double Feature, and it's for the kind of film fan who likes knowing who was in what with whom.

February 29, 2012 3:07 PM

I've just released my first iPhone app. It's called Double Feature, and it's for the kind of film fan who likes knowing who was in what with whom.
If you've ever been watching a movie and found yourself wondering “hey, wasn't that guy in $MOVIE_TITLE” or “say, what's got $PERSON_1 and $PERSON_2 in it”, Double Feature is for you. With its Movie Match feature, you can type in two movies and get back a list of the people that worked on both movies. With Name Search, you can punch in two names and get back all of the films those two people both worked on. That's literally all that Double Feature does. If you'd classify yourself as a movie buff, I think you'll really like it.

Role: developer

posted by scottjacksonx (5 comments total)

This is a great idea...any hope of it crossing over for Android? I can't tell you how many conversations this would facilitate.
posted by PurdyontheBlue at 8:30 AM on March 5, 2012

Oh AWESOME.
posted by Kimberly at 11:00 AM on March 5, 2012

It would be the best. Unfortunately for us, IMDb owns their movie data. They used to let others license their movie data (starting at $15,000 a year), but now they don't even do that. Unfortunately, IMDb’s data is IMDb’s data, and we have no legal way of getting at it.

That's a shame. IMDb would have been my first guess for the kind of information you used.

Very nice idea, btw.

Next: Reverse the process and make a trivia-game out of it.
posted by KMB at 11:25 AM on March 12, 2012

This is my one true gift: I can see someone in a movie/TV show and list a lot of their credits, frequently for things I haven't even seen. Yet another American skill lost to automation...
posted by sfkiddo at 8:45 PM on March 17, 2012

IMDB used to have this feature, and I have missed it for years. Great!
posted by Night_owl at 8:53 PM on March 19, 2012