A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mike Score
Birthplace:
Beverly, Yorkshire, England, UK
Born:
November 5, 1957
Michael "Mike" Score is a musician and songwriter, best known as the founder, lead vocalist, and keyboard player for the band A Flock Of Seagulls, as well as his flamboyant haircut in the early 1980s. Mike and his brother Ali were hairdressers when they decided to start a band in their hometown of Liverpool, and not long after being signed, their record label had a music video made for their song "I Ran (So Far Away)", which was in heavy rotation on MTV starting in the spring of 1982, giving the band huge exposure that continues to influence pop culture even today.
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.