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Richard Sandling is a British comedian, film reviewer, presenter, writer, director, actor and musician from South Benfleet. He won So You Think You're Funny in 2007. Sandling has said that he sought a career in comedy, and has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe a number of times, both as a solo act and as part of duo with Stuart Goldsmith. He is also the alter ego of Spak Whitman and has performed comedy all over the UK as well as America and Canada Sandling runs Perfect Movie in London, a stand up and sketch comedy night all about films featuring recreations of top comedians. He also occasionally runs the Squat Betty comedy night in Southend. He was the Myspace.com/comedy film reviewer for a time and is featured in the documentary The People vs. George Lucas. He can also be seen in Peep Show series 7, Trinny & Susannah: From Boom to Bust and Miranda series 2. He is a regular performer at Robin Ince's Book Club and School for Gifted Children shows in London and at Latitude Festival and in 2008 was part of the Montreal Just For Laughs Britcom Show.
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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.