A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
May 31, 1995
Justin Matthews is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. While studying neuroscience at the University of Southern California, he simultaneously found early commercial success with acting, starting his foray into entertainment. Quickly migrating from acting to writing, Justin has already worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. He spent most of his early writing career in television, even receiving a WGA nomination for his writing contribution on Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” starring Jennifer Aniston, Reece Witherspoon, Steve Carell, and Jon Hamm. More recently, Justin co-wrote Amazon Studio’s Rom-Com “Upgraded” starring Marisa Tomei and Camila Mendes.
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:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
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.