A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
J.B. Benn is an artist and entertainer, hailed as being one of the greatest close-up illusionists in the world. He has performed for notable figures like Warren Buffet, Bono, and Mary Tyler Moore and corporate clients such as Google, HBO, and Rolling Stone were just a few of the clients on his list. He has also entertained celebrities and guests at Vanity Fair's Oscar Party for over five years, as well as many Golden Globe after-parties. Various publications have written about his artistry, including Vanity Fair and Vogue. In 2013, he starred in a new series for the Travel Channel called Magic Man. For the show, Benn traveled around the world and performed illusions for both locals and tourists. He also co-hosted two shows with Chris Korn. Mondo Magic aired on A&E and was filmed in the United States, Singapore, and Canada, and Magic Asia aired on AXN and took place in Mumbai, India. A few of his special appearances include Late Night with Conan O'Brien, an NBC special called The Royal Family of Monaco, and starring alongside Harrison Ford in Paramount Picture's Sabrina.
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.