A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Zach Goldbaum is an award-winning journalist, writer, director, and producer, known for his work on The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper and as the host of Noisey on Viceland. As a journalist, he's embedded with the largest criminal organization in Brazil, shared one-on-one dinners with international superstars from the K-pop scene, and spent weeks with Blood gang members in Compton. He's interviewed Kendrick Lamar, Danny Brown, and Killer Mike among others, and he's written features on the rise of country rap for VICE Magazine and Detroit's alarming trend of violence related to Cartier sunglasses for Racked. Zach was also a director and performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater, and his short films, pilots and scripts have been featured in the YoFi Film Festival, LA Comedy Festival, and the New York Television Festival.
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.