Jacob Sahms

Westworld – The Complete First Season: Is This a Wonderful World?

Jacob SahmsNov 7, 2017

If it?s such a wonderful world out there, why are you all clamoring to get in here? ? Dolores When Michael Crichton wrote and directed Westworld in 1973, he could have never known how reality TV would change the way that entertainment and real life have blended...

Cars 3: Living on Your Own Terms

Jacob SahmsNov 7, 2017

Cars 3?is the latest Disney Pixar film that kids will love but that tells a story meant for adults to find their own way. As Lightnight McQueen (Owen Wilson) finds a new sponsor, Rust-eze Racing Center magnate Sterling (Nathan Fillion), and a new nemesis, racing...

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Home Alone 2 – Lost in New York 25th Anniversary

Jacob SahmsNov 7, 2017

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?is?the follow-up to Macauley Culkin's hit?Home Alone, where he fended off two crazed robbers as Kevin, a kid stranded at home without his family. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern return as his nemeses, Harry Lime and Marv Merchants, only this...

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Kidnap: Halle Berry Gets “Taken”

Jacob SahmsOct 31, 2017

In 2008,?Taken?set the bar for which all other parent-rescues-child movies would be measured. Let's be clear: Halle Berry is no Liam Neeson, but she works hard to bring the audience along on a rollercoaster ride as she seeks to free her son from his captors. For the...

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Junior Bonner: You Can Go Home Again #TBT

Jacob SahmsOct 26, 2017

In Junior Bonner, Steve McQueen finds himself playing an over-the-hill rodeo rider, between?Bullitt?and?The Getaway?in 1972. Working with violent Western director Sam Peckinpah, McQueen helps tell a story that is not filled with gun violence, but does tell of a...

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The Indian Runner: Hunter or Hunted? #TBT

Jacob SahmsOct 26, 2017

Joe Roberts has tried to do right by his family, first working hard on a farm that was foreclosed on and then reluctantly picking up the badge of a small Nebraska town sheriff. Now, as his troubled brother Frank returns to town, Roberts is faced with choices about...

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Annabelle – Creation: Chucky’s Sister?

Jacob SahmsOct 25, 2017

The prequel to?Annabelle,?which is actually part of?The Conjuring?franchise,?Creation?tells the story of how an evil spirit tricks an unsuspecting set of parents into allowing it to inhabit a porcelain doll. Like most sins, this starts out with well-enough intentions...

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Aldo Iuliano Dishes on His Short Soccer-Inspired Film, Penalty

Jacob SahmsOct 24, 2017

Penalty?is a film about futbol (or soccer), played on a sandy beach with incredibly high stakes. In?Aldo Iuliano's carefully crafted story and direction, the film provides a powerful, emotional punch that will take audiences' breath away. Here is the story of?Penalty...

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Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas Deluxe Edition

Jacob SahmsOct 24, 2017

I doubt that Dr. Seuss knew the phenomenon he'd create when he penned How the Grinch Stole Christmas in 1957, critiquing the way that Christmas had been co-opted financially and culturally against its meaning. Adapted into the beloved television special in 1966 and...

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