Interested in discovering what films you can get your hands on at Princeton? Consult this guide to find films using the library catalog. If PUL doesn't own a film, suggest a purchase or write to me directly.
Princeton also subscribes to a handful of video streaming resources: do a search for video at the DATABASES search.
Many databases index book reviews, including Articles+ and many subject databases that index the literature in/for a particular field. A lengthy book review can be a good source for learning enough about a particular title to warrant tracking it down or not as well as point to other authors and/or books on a similar theme.
To search for book reviews in Articles+, do a search, entering as many keywords as you'd like contained in the book title in question, and select Book Review under Content Type on the left-hand side.
Some general sources for book reviews:
Guide to book reviews that includes more than 6.7 million reviews on more than 2.5 million titles. 1965+
Indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals.
English language reviews of fiction, nonfiction, social science and general science books. The reviews are selected from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media.
There are other places to look for reviews, like the London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book, and H-Net Revies, all of which can be found under Databases on the library website. There's also the New York Times Book Review published on Sundays.