To start: there is this great divide between myself and my friends... This has obvious connections between myself and people I don't know, because even my friends can partially meet me on an intellectual level. Bear in mind that I hold intellectualism on a healthy place in my life; I find that most people who are not intellectualized in conversations, are often smarter on various different levels and can hold themselves in semantic debates. 
 
All things considered, I hold more value in films/movies which have something new and/or different to offer than the typical iteration of story templates, genre, or exercises in "the CGI school". I understand that many genre films can offer something more while retaining their intellectual pursuits (star wars, blade runner), but these are a rare breed, which is why they are timeless. Also, these are executed by some really rare minds, and are often one-hit wonders, as sometimes their makers don't even understand the genesis of their own projects inherent value. 
 
Beyond this, and even more so, I have already seen a great deal of movies. I watch them like other people watch TV, and habitually - at least 2k movies I have seen, and most of them are arguably of the intellectually variety. I know things about actors, directors, editors, etc. and things concerning the process itself, as I made "experimental" home movies, and have watched at least 300 movies with the director commentary on. 
 
Short story short: I have seen so many movies, that I am at the end of my movie watching experience. Most of the directors I have an interest in (I follow what I consider to be the originator of the movie, for the most part.) I am actively following, and have seen most, if not all of their movies. 
 
So here I am. I follow movies which seem to offer something original, and most of them come from the Foreign sector. I believe that most (not all) indie movies are sorry attempts at being Hollywood fair (a few indie directors have admitted this to me). The opposite example of this is Hal Hartley's movies and those by Gregg Araki. I understand over the process of watching most of their films - their mission is not to reject the Hollywood system for the sake of it - they actually make what you would be able to categorize as  "foreign films of the U.S.". 
 
Please don't take this as my way of rejecting Hollywood fair for the sake of it either. I am an avid movie watcher. Two of my favorite movies are Goonies and Kung Pow. I have a guilty-pleasure of teen flicks and the aforementioned slapstick comedies. Here is the kicker though: All I need is one preview, or to quickly look up the director (Friedberg and Seltzer are good examples of this). That's it, I stop right there. If a "Hollywood" (now a loose term) movie is better than that, word of mouth will hit me. 
 
The thing about movies that I am interested in and follow, is intellectual criticism concerning movies I continue to be interested in (In My Skin is a good example of this), and information regarding directors/projects with whom I "might" be interested in. Struggles in production (Terry Gilliam and almost every movie he has ever made) and attention paid to older flicks which continue to find relevance (Metropolis (1927), which recently discovered -previously considered lost- footage) both in intellectual thought, and in inspiration with newer movies. 
 
As a final note: I try to stay away from old movies that people feel that deserve respect - Because of how old they are. I don't feel that a person would have to watch D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation (I did though) to acknowledge its genesis and understand the film techniques that were handed down. 
 
Nothing much has offered the same level of insight as a few critical books (http://www.amazon.com/Directors-Vision-Concise-Guide-Filmmakers/dp/1556523661/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284855715&sr=8-8, and  http://www.amazon.com/Film-Critics-Choice-Geoff-Andrew/dp/0823017443/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1284856031&sr=1-1 <- this especially), reviews, and rare interviews found scattered about.  
 
The filmspotting.com podcast is excellent for their surprisingly humble approach to film critique, and despite his utter trollism - Armond White's interviews, and actual film critique is very refreshing - and surprising.
 
Personally, I don't like: 
 
slashfilm.com - because of the often infantile-like view of intellectual films (they try, but it comes off as a little less than intellectual and more 'privileged' perspective, it is also PR trolled) 
aintitcool.com  - awful for its fan/company service. The news is really good, but it's impossible to "read through the shit", so to speak.
filmthreat.com - once filled with insightful interviews and commentary, and later filled with regional or 'area specific' interest. I admire their different approach and independent support, but it isn't a persistent source of intellectual thought on films.  
 
Things I love/hate: 
 
Doug Loves Movies podcast: This shit is hilarious; it is also totally not much in the way of movie criticism. Not at all, actually. It is funny though.
 
Would anyone like to share their own personal sources? Trust me, I would be truely thankful for anything new.
 
Editor note: Oh, and I would offer specific insights into films, but I hold back because I appreciate the value of the dollar bill more than the value of free information that cannot be obtained nowhere on the internet (as a lifetime art critic I hold one strange position, few have - which doesn't make me better/less than anyone else). I write my own stuff down.