A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Special Effects:
1984 The Great Gold Swindle
1986 Armour of God
1986 The Blue Lightning
1987 Vietnam
1993 Sniper
Special Effects Coordinator:
1984 The Great Gold Swindle
1986 Armour of God
1986 The Blue Lightning
1987 Vietnam
1990 Wendy Cracked a Walnut
1993 Sniper
1997 Paradise Road
Special Effects Supervisor:
1984 The Great Gold Swindle
1986 Armour of God
1986 The Blue Lightning
1987 Vietnam
1990 Wendy Cracked a Walnut
1993 Sniper
1994 No Escape
1994 Street Fighter
1997 Paradise Road
1999 The Matrix
2000 Pitch Black
2002 Ghost Ship
2002 Queen of the Damned
2002 Scooby-Doo
2005 The Great Raid
2008 Fool's Gold
2009 The Marine 2
2012 The Frontier
2015 The Lovers
2016 Gold
2017 Thor: Ragnarok
2018 Aquaman
2019 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
2020 Extraction
2020 Love and Monsters
2022 Thirteen Lives
Special Effects Technician:
1991 The Private War of Lucinda Smith
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.