JComboBox and Tooltips

Hi,
I'm creating a project for school in which they want me to populate a JComboBox with a movie list that I created in a text file.
I was thinking that I want to set a tooltip for each item (movie) and then modify it so that people can see a picture of the movie and a little summary.
What's the easiest way to do that?
Or maybe instead of a tooltip I could use different forms? Please, give me some ideas with some code too
Thanks
PS: This is the code I'm using to populate the JComboBox.
private void populateMovies()
String fileName = "src
Movies.txt",
movieList;
try
//File Reader
FileReader content = new FileReader(fileName);
BufferedReader inputFile = new BufferedReader(content);
movieList = inputFile.readLine();
while (movieList !=null)
movieSelectionJComboBox.addItem(movieList);
movieList = inputFile.readLine();
catch(FileNotFoundException exp)
exp.printStackTrace();
catch(IOException exp)
exp.printStackTrace();
Click to see GUI
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s224/andresmdiaz/AMDGUI.png

You can set images in tooltips using HTML
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http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Swing-JFC/ShowinganImageinaToolTip.htm
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