A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Michael James Edwards
Birthplace:
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Born Michael James Edwards in Oklahoma City, OK (1986) and raised equally between Texas and Montana; James moved abroad in 2001 and spent the next three years studying and performing in Shanghai, China. He moved back across the pacific to attend Purdue University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. In 2017 James made his feature film debut in The Meanest Man in Texas. The film was nominated for over 30 awards, including several wins for Best Film and Best Actor. Later in 2017 he made his television debut on CBS's short lived hit Wisdom of the Crowd, standing opposite Hollywood elites, Jeremy Piven and Natalia Tena.
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.