A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Lara Hudson is an internationally recognized star and choreographer of eight award-winning fitness DVD’s, a national magazine cover model, a health & fitness news correspondent, and a Pilates Method Alliance Gold Certified Instructor with over 16 years of teaching experience. She holds additional certifications through the American College of Sports Medicine and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She is the founder and creator of The Mercury Method, her signature series of transformational temperature-charged workouts combining the best elements of Pilates, yoga and strength training. Lara has graced the covers of FIT Yoga and PilatesStyle Magazine, and has written articles for MindBodyGreen, SHAPE, SELF, Prevention, Women’s Health and USA Today. Lara graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Theater Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, spent five years as a performing member of the critically acclaimed dance companyDiavolo, and has worked as an instructor and choreographer at UCLA, Loyola Marymount University and performing arts programs throughout the country.
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.