We got a lot of good feedback from our reader survey last month, and we’re gradually implementing some minor tweaks here and there to make EricDSnider.com a smoother, more refreshing experience. Today we have some small movie-related items.

First, a few respondents commented that they wished there were a way to sort the movie reviews by grade or release date. Well, there is a way, and there always has been. But maybe it wasn’t obvious enough. At the top of the main movie page is a link that now says “Complete Archives (sortable by title, grade, rating, and release date).” It used to just say “Click here to see an index of all of Eric’s movie reviews,” which doesn’t indicate that the index is sortable. So we’ve made that more clear.

Also, up in the navigation bar, under “Movies Reviews,” there was an option for “View Entire List” that now says “Archives.” That terminology is more in line with general Internet usage.

At the “Archives” page, the movies are automatically sorted alphabetically by title — but all you gotta do to rearrange them according to rating, grade, or date is click the word “Rating,” “Grade,” or “Date” at the top of the column. Click the word again and it will arrange them in reverse order (e.g., oldest to newest instead of newest to oldest).

Multiple sorts — for example, all the PG-rated movies together, and then arranged by letter grade — are not possible. That’s futuristic sci-fi territory there. It’s fun to think about, though, isn’t it?

Finally, we’ve added a new option under the “Movie Reviews” tab on the navigation bar. It says “Best/Worst Lists & Media Inventories,” and it’s an archive of my end-of-the-year top 10’s and stuff. I’ve done a “Best and Worst Movies” list every year since 1999, and a “Media Inventory” (basically a rundown of all the books I read and movies and TV shows I watched) since 2004. They weren’t archived anywhere convenient before, so we’ve rectified that.

So there you go. Hopefully the 5.5% of survey respondents who said they didn’t know I had a blog (???) will stumble upon these new developments on their own, since I guess they won’t read about them here.

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