Movie Reviews (Film & TV)

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Set Up Screencast

Check out a screencast explaining how the demo content was set up – here.

Theme Description

Movie Reviews is the perfect theme for a movie review and news website. The theme comes packed with features which make it ideal for reviewing. TheMovieDB API makes it even easier to get movie details.

• TheMovieDB API Integration – get cast info, cast biography, genre, actors, directors, release date, trailer and many more.


• Dynamic Color Coding – scores are colored based on the review score. The color scale can be set in the theme options.


• Featured Slider – add custom backgrounds and content.


• Easy Video Embed Integration


• Versatile Archives – view review archives based on genre, postives, negatives and tags.


• Actor/Director Pages – view moves based on cast, view cast details and aggregate scores.


• Versatile and Useful Shortcodes


• Many Custom Widgets

Custom Plugin/Widget list

• Facebook Widget – used in the demo to create the facebook fans area in the footer.


• Genre Widget – used in the demo for the genre links in the lower footer. Genres are sorted by number of posts.


• Movie Shortcodes – adds the shortcodes.


• Recent Comments – used in the footer.


• Recent Posts – can be used to show only preview/reviews and also by genre. Featured option refers to the first post being shown with a larger image.


• Related Posts – for use on single review/preview pages to show related posts.


• Review Breakdown – used to show the postives and negatives in the sidebar.


• Review Details – tabbed details for the movie (uses api).


• Review Score – shows the large colored score on single post.


• Review Stats Widget – shows the number of movies within each score bracket (lower footer).


• Review Tags – shows tags for the review/preview.


• Tags Widget – shows the recent tags in the footer.


• Top Rated – shows a list of top rated movies.


• Worst Rated – shows a list of worst rated movies.


• Trailer Widget – shows a trailer by using the movie db api. Leave api field blank when adding to a single post.


• Twitter Widget – shows latest tweets in footer.

Resources Used

• Advanced Custom Fields


• OptionsTree


• jQuery


• jQuery Cycle


• jQuery Easing


• Rainbow Colors


• TheMovieDB API