A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Larry Dwyer was born and raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the days of gas lines and Richard Nixon. Larry has always had two main loves: movies and music. His mother, a classically trained pianist, instilled a love of music in Larry at a very young age and of all of the music that she loved, he loved rock the best. Larry went on to learn to play guitar and later became a founding member of Grammy nominated hardcore/metal band Hatebreed. His love of movies also came from his parents. From a very early age, his parents would go to the drive-in movie theaters on the weekends with Larry in the backseat to watch such lovely films as 'Dawn of the Dead', 'Blood Beach' and 'Mother's Day'. This early introduction to horror films inspired Larry to later review films and interview filmmakers for Horror News Network and the annual Connecticut HorrorFest convention; this has also led to roles in films alongside Kevin Sorbo ('Hercules'), Adrienne King ('Friday the 13th'), Caroline Williams ('Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2') and more. When not in front of the camera, Larry can be found hosting genre film double features at Connecticut theaters, writing for Horror News Network website, helping to run the annual CT HorrorFest convention, podcasting with Scary Larry's House of Horrors, coaching Little League baseball, playing shows with bands, working 9-5 as a Project Manager and, most importantly, being a husband and father to his wonderful family.
Music:
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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.