Ron Bolanowski

Gallery Unavailable

Additional information:

The Search Form


Special Effects:
2001  I Am Sam

Special Effects Assistant:
1998  Jack Frost
2001  I Am Sam

Special Effects Coordinator:
1997  Home Alone 3
1998  Jack Frost
1999  The Cider House Rules
2000  Bounce
2000  Scream 3
2001  Blow
2001  I Am Sam
2002  The Sweetest Thing
2003  Identity
2005  Red Eye
2006  You, Me and Dupree
2007  3:10 to Yuma
2009  State of Play
2009  The Informant!
2011  Contagion
2011  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2013  Scary Movie 5
2014  Gone Girl
2018  Book Club
2019  Lucifer
2023  Book Club: The Next Chapter

Special Effects Supervisor:
1997  Home Alone 3
1998  Jack Frost
1999  The Cider House Rules
1999  The Rage: Carrie 2
2000  Bounce
2000  Scream 3
2001  Blow
2001  I Am Sam
2002  The Sweetest Thing
2003  Identity
2005  Cursed
2005  Red Eye
2005  Walk the Line
2006  You, Me and Dupree
2007  3:10 to Yuma
2009  State of Play
2009  The Informant!
2011  Contagion
2011  Scream 4
2011  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2013  Scary Movie 5
2014  Gone Girl
2016  Get a Job
2018  Book Club
2019  Lucifer
2023  Book Club: The Next Chapter

Special Effects:
2021  iCarly

Special Effects Coordinator:
2016  Lucifer
2021  iCarly

Special Effects Supervisor:
2016  Lucifer
2019  The Morning Show
2021  iCarly

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.