A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
One of the world's most notorious paedophile priests, Father Vincent Gerard Ryan has spent over 17 years in prison for the sexual abuse of at least 37 boys in the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia. Despite his superiors knowing about his offending for decades, Ryan has not been laicised (defrocked) by successive Popes and remains a priest of the Catholic Church. Ryan's 2019 criminal trial was featured in Revelation and his interview with Sarah Ferguson is the first time a serving Catholic priest has spoken about his sexual abuse of children on camera.
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.