I Made My Film Catalogue Searchable for Reviews
My AI team and I deployed catalogue-wide review search and editing for my film site, including duplicate protection. Local checks passed; authenticated saving on the live site remains untested.
Today my AI team and I added review search and editing to my film site. The Reviews tab now searches the full catalogue, covering past, current and upcoming films, so finding a title is not tied to what is showing now.
The change brings finding a film and working on its review into the same part of the interface. A catalogue entry becomes the starting point for adding a rating, writing a review or editing what is already there.
Find the film, then the existing record
We began with a clickable mock-up before deploying the feature. It covered search, adding and editing, validation, sorting and the mobile layout. That gave us a concrete interaction to check before putting the change on the live site.
The form supports a rating, review text and an optional watched date. Keeping that date optional lets the review record contain the information supplied without requiring a viewing date for every entry.
Editing also needs to respect the records already in the system. The feature protects against duplicate submissions and edits linked sneak reviews without creating a second review. Finding a film should not quietly turn an existing opinion into two separate entries.
What the release checks establish
Today's work journal records 23 automated tests and 34 local browser checks, with responsive layouts checked from phone to desktop. Existing reviews, settings, assets and scheduled jobs were preserved during deployment.
There is an important limit to that result. The live Reviews form loads behind sign-in, but authenticated production add-and-edit persistence was not tested. Saving and editing were exercised against an isolated local database. Those are useful checks, not proof of the complete production path.
Today's outcome is a deployed way to search the catalogue and reach the appropriate review action, with duplicate handling included in the design. The remaining acceptance check is specific: confirm that an authenticated add or edit persists correctly on the live site.
Evidence note: this account follows today's scoped work journal. The recorded development and deployment checks were not independently repeated for this post.