<h1>Jacob Sahms</h1>

Jacob Sahms

Jacob serves as a United Methodist pastor in Virginia, where he spends his downtime in a theater or playing sports

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The Big Sick: Culture in America

The Big Sick: Culture in America

Kumail Nanjiani wrote the script for?The Big Sick?with his real-life Anglo wife, Emily Gordon, and then starred in the subsequent film about a Pakistani comedian in Chicago. And it's hilarious; in fact, it's the funniest film I've seen this year. Kumail as Kumail is...

The Hero: Sam Elliott Keeps Reinventing Himself

The Hero: Sam Elliott Keeps Reinventing Himself

Sam Elliott is the voice of Dodge, the actor you've seen in Westerns even if you couldn't name him then, and a chiseled-looking guy you'd say 'yessir' to if you met. But lately, Elliott has been playing type against type (see:?The Ranch), and now he appears in Brett...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Experience the Magic

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Experience the Magic

Thirty-five years after Steve Spielberg unveiled the gnarliest alien this side of Yoda,?E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?arrives in a bike on Blu-ray and Digital HD. See how Elliott (Henry Thomas), Gertie (Drew Barrymore), and Michael (Robert MacNaughton) survive '70s and...

The Mummy: Tom Cruise vs. Ancient Evil

The Mummy: Tom Cruise vs. Ancient Evil

So, let's be clear: Tom Cruise has battle just about everything. The Russians. Autism. Aliens. Futuristic governments. The future itself. But he's never fought the ancient evil of the Mummy before. In a remake of the 1999 Brendan Fraser film (and to be clear, "remake"...

The Island of Dr. Moreau: Evil in Adaptation #TBT

The Island of Dr. Moreau: Evil in Adaptation #TBT

In the second English language adaptation of H.G. Wells'?The Island of Dr. Moreau, Michael York plays the protagonist, Andrew Braddock, who washes ashore of said island. Nursed back to health by the 'good' doctor, played by Burt Lancaster, he finds himself admiring...