A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Patrick Lacey
TierZoo
Patrick “Patch” Lacey is an award-winning American biologist from West Bend, WI who grew up very passionate about video games and zoology. He graduated in 2017 from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in microbiology. Patch is best known for TierZoo, a fun and informative show about wildlife ecology and evolutionary biology geared towards a gamer audience. He was recently awarded the 2023 Streamy Award for best in Learning and Education. Patrick Lacey is currently based in Madison, WI where he continues to create both entertaining and educational content for his popular video series “TierZoo.”
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.