A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Chef Trevor Ritchie recently represented Canada at the most prestigious culinary competition: the Bocuse d’Or. After being selected as the best Chef in our country, he placed second at the Americas semi-finals, and led our country to 13th place at the world finale! Chef Technologist at George Brown College Toronto, he worked in Canada's best kitchens: Langdon Hall, Queen's Landing, La Société, Campagnolo just to name a few. Cooking competition isn't new for him: he was also Chopped Champion (Chopped Canada), represented Canada and won gold at Hans Beuschkens Culinary Challege, and placed world second at Angliss Culinary Cup before leading team Canada at the Bocuse d’Or. He is now back to George Brown College Toronto where he shares his knowledge with the next generation.
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.