[jmarshall]

Thanks KidKiwi. Basically you don't use any of the nodes for browsing purposes - actor via info window doesn't count - that's a "similar movie to this" style feature, and looking up directors via that or some other search mechanism would cater for your use.

In my opinion the actors node is essentially useless as it is. IMDb in particular is rubbish at organising the actors for a movie. TMDb may be better - at least we can improve it in that case! I think even with "headliners only" it'd still be too large to browse effectively.

Genres is the one I think has the biggest case going for it, possibly followed by Year if you're a film buff? I'm just not convinced that browsing by those categories (i.e. a list of all of them, click on it and you get the movies from that genre only etc.) is the best way to handle things.

I guess if one has thousands of movies then a breakdown is necessary just to manage the listing - if so, I'd be interested in how people group their movies and shows under this scenario from a browsing point of view.

Cheers,
Jonathan