In Zeros and Ones, a movie about a terrorist plot that the audience never quite catches up to, Ethan Hawke plays JJ, a soldier trying to stop said plot, and Justin, JJ's twin brother who seems to be behind the plot. But in Abel Ferrara's film, which he wrote and...
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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Last Night in Soho: Not All That Glitters is Gold
Ellie Turner (Thomasin McKenzie) longs to be a fashion sensation, leaving the rural (Redruth, Cornwall) for London, enrolling in the London College of Fashion. Failing to fit in, Turner flounders, but she finds a real-world friendship with John (Michael Ajao), and a...
Clifford the Big Red Dog: Let’s Come Together, Right Now!
Clifford the Big Red Dog has never been my favorite children's book, and I vaguely remember watching some animated episodes with my son as he progressed from the intolerable Barney to the more likable children's programs like The Smurfs. The in-between spot found him...
The Unforgivable
In Netflix's The Unforgivable, Sandra Bullock plays Ruth Slater, who went to prison for twenty years for murder and now slowly works to rebuild her life. Using Sally Wainwright's British series Unforgiven as a road map, director Nora Fingscheidt sets the audience up...
The Jesus Music: A History of CCM
The Erwin Brothers have delivered the real life stories Woodlawn, I Can Only Imagine, and I Still Believe, with American Underdog about to debut with the story of Kurt Warner's unlikely rise from grocery store stocker to NFL MVP. But during the pandemic, they recorded...
Middle-Earth Ultimate Collector’s Edition
Warner Bros. has thought of everything, aimed at enticing the lovers of all things J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson into the purchase to end all purchases, the Middle-Earth Ultimate Collector's Edition of the films that brought The Lord of the Rings saga into the...
The Outsiders – The Complete Novel 4K HD
S.E. Hinton's seminal work, made into a motion picture by Francis Ford Coppola, wasn't considered complete by purists. Now, the story of two 1960s Oklahoma gangs, the East side's poor Greasers and the West-side rich kid Socs, gets a more elaborate release with...
Kung Fu – The Complete First Season
Forty years after David Carradine's Kung Fu debuted, Kung Fu (2021) showed a different twist on the old story: Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang) learns at the Shaolin Monastery in the Yunnan Province of China, after she runs away from the arranged marriage her mother attempts...
Walker – Season One
Jared Padalecki transitioned seamlessly from Supernatural to the reboot of the Chuck Norris headliner Walker (dropping Texas Ranger), moving from a fifteen-year run as a demon hunter to a criminal-pursuing, door-kicking member of the Rangers. As Cordell Walker, he...