Roll-your-own RSS for movie junkies

Boing Boing reader CJM says,

I'm a subscriber to the Hollywood Video MVP program. This is something similar to NetFlix, but is limited to movies that are 4-6 weeks past DVD release. I'm tired of going into the store not knowing what has been recently added to the MVP list. Which means that at times it can be a waste of time to stop in. One thing that is nice, is that they provide a list of new items to the MVP on their front site. So, I thought I'd whip up a quick RSS generator for what they are adding to the MVP. I also decided that it'd be easy enough to do the rest of their sections as well. The list is below, parsed from the main Hollywood video website. Hollywood video, you'd be very cool if you would do this yourself. Since the lists off of Hollywood Video won't be changing too often, I will only be re-generating these files once per day (noon PST).

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And reader mediamelt says,

On the subject of custom RSS feeds, I'm a huge movie news nut (as noted by my film-geek centric blog) that grew tired of scouring tens of movie-news websites a day for the latest tidbits. Unfortunately, most movie news sites are extremely behind the times in terms of web technology and don't provide RSS feeds, so I wrote myself a little link ripper to be fed onto my blog for all to read and enjoy. The result? Headlines from over 70+ movie news websites, updated hourly, displayed on one page, most from sites that don't provide RSS feeds themselves. Version 3 is already in development and will feature independent RSS feeds for each site, as well as "keyworded" RSS feeds, "genre" feeds, and one massive feed containing every headline from every site. If that's not information overload made easy, I don't know what is. PHP/MySQL programmers with free time who want to pad their portfolio needed :)

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