@TearsInTheRain:

What if you go directly to the search form:
http://www.imdb.com/search

does it help?

There is also mobile search form for IMDb:

http://www.mdog.com/bookmarks/imdb/htmlsite/

When I went to the imdb home page I could close
the advertisement window by pressing Home key
(N800) and closing the uppermost browser window.