A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Michael Fink
Second Unit Director:
2005 Constantine
2007 The Golden Compass
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor:
1997 Contact
2005 Constantine
2007 The Golden Compass
VFX Supervisor:
1997 Contact
2001 Thir13en Ghosts
2005 Constantine
2007 The Golden Compass
Visual Effects Supervisor:
1983 WarGames
1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1985 D.A.R.Y.L.
1987 Project X
1989 Tango & Cash
1992 Batman Returns
1995 Braveheart
1996 Eraser
1997 Contact
1998 Lethal Weapon 4
2001 Thir13en Ghosts
2002 Clockstoppers
2002 Road to Perdition
2003 X2
2005 Constantine
2007 The Golden Compass
2008 Tropic Thunder
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.