A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mark Byers
Special Effects:
1993 Red Rock West
Special Effects Assistant:
1992 Deep Cover
1993 Red Rock West
1994 Dumb and Dumber
Special Effects Coordinator:
1992 Deep Cover
1993 Red Rock West
1994 Dumb and Dumber
1997 Quicksilver Highway
1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
2005 Cursed
2007 Halloween
2007 The Heartbreak Kid
2008 Pathology
2010 The Back-Up Plan
2012 The Guilt Trip
2014 Chef
2015 The Ridiculous 6
2019 Lucy in the Sky
2024 Unstoppable
Special Effects Supervisor:
1992 Deep Cover
1993 Red Rock West
1994 Dumb and Dumber
1997 Quicksilver Highway
1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
2004 Breakin' All the Rules
2005 Cursed
2007 Halloween
2007 The Heartbreak Kid
2008 Pathology
2010 The Back-Up Plan
2011 Water for Elephants
2012 The Guilt Trip
2014 Chef
2015 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
2015 The Ridiculous 6
2016 Hidden Figures
2016 The Sea of Trees
2016 Within
2017 Baby Driver
2017 Sandy Wexler
2019 Lucy in the Sky
2020 Underwater
2021 The Starling
2023 Air
2023 They Cloned Tyrone
2024 Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2024 Unstoppable
2025 The Accountant²
Visual Effects:
1992 Deep Cover
1993 Red Rock West
1994 Dumb and Dumber
1994 Pentathlon
1997 Quicksilver Highway
1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
2004 Breakin' All the Rules
2005 Cursed
2007 Halloween
2007 The Heartbreak Kid
2008 Pathology
2010 The Back-Up Plan
2011 Water for Elephants
2012 The Guilt Trip
2014 Chef
2015 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
2015 The Ridiculous 6
2016 Hidden Figures
2016 The Sea of Trees
2016 Within
2017 Baby Driver
2017 Sandy Wexler
2019 Lucy in the Sky
2020 Underwater
2021 The Starling
2023 Air
2023 They Cloned Tyrone
2024 Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2024 Unstoppable
2025 The Accountant²
Special Effects Coordinator:
2019 For All Mankind
2025 Side Quest
Special Effects Supervisor:
2019 For All Mankind
2020 Space Force
2024 Presumed Innocent
2024 The Sympathizer
2025 Side Quest
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.