wrapped up cinematch today. spent way too long fighting the movie posters lol - added tmdb api to show poster art instead of plain tables, worked instantly on my main machine but the vm kept throwing ssl cert errors and then random connection resets (10054). turned out the vm’s python couldnt verify https certs so fixed that with certifi, and then some antivirus/firewall thing was resetting python’s tls connections while curl worked fine, so i made it fall back to curl when urllib fails. finally got posters loading. also cleaned up so it gracefully shows placeholder cards if theres no api key. then deployed the whole thing to streamlit community cloud (free) so theres an actual live demo link now, added the tmdb key as a secret so its not exposed. so cinematch is officially done - 5 recommendation models compared, cited “because you liked x,y,z” explanations, cold start handling, similar movies, model comparison dashboard, poster art, tests passing, readme + report written, and deployed live. pretty happy with how it turned out.