A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Kevin earned his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Baltimore and currently owns & operates the NANCY cafe in Station North with his husband, Bill. He is the founder of the James Baldwin Literary Society, a former member of the Association of Black Media Workers, and a current member of the Pink Pistols (a GLBT-friendly firearms training group). A former reporter for the Baltimore Sun, Kevin has received multiple writing awards throughout his career. Kevin recently shot a webseries entitled Charm City and he briefly appeared in John Waters’ 1990 film, Crybaby. In his spare time, Kevin enjoys cooking, playwriting, and listening to Gladys Knight and Lil Uzi. His favorite films include Set It Off, Claudine, The Landlord, The Godfather, and Scarface.
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.