Jacob Sahms

Me Before You: Life’s Choices

Jacob SahmsAug 30, 2016

Louisa Clark (Game of Thrones'?Emilia Clarke) desperately needs a job to help support her family. Unfortunately, she has little to no experience in the job she backs into: that of caregiver for permanently paralyzed ex-banker, Will Traynor (Sam Claflin,?The Hunger...

Kubo and the Two Strings: When Story Comes to Life

Jacob SahmsAug 23, 2016

Kubo (Art Parkinson) finds himself on a quest, searching for his deceased father's sword, breastplate, and helmet, with the help of a talking Monkey (Charlize Theron) and the absent-minded warrior Beetle (Matthew McConaughey). Hot on their heels are the evil Sisters...

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The Huntsman – Winter’s War: Ah, Family…

Jacob SahmsAug 23, 2016

Thanks to the chance to pick the brain of director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, I was even more excited to view the spectacle that is?The Huntsman: Winter's War. While?Snow White & The Huntsman?turned back the clock on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," this...

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The Nice Guys: When Good is Just Good Enough

Jacob SahmsAug 23, 2016

Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is the kind of guy who is so down on his luck that bad luck seems good. Privately investigating the mysterious disappearance of a teenager, he runs sideways of the neighborhood enforcer, Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe), and ends up with a...

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Elementary – The Fourth Season: Like Father, Like Son?

Jacob SahmsAug 23, 2016

The fourth season of?Elementary, the Stateside version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, may be best remembered for its adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" ... or the arrival of John Noble (Fringe) as Holmes' father. Although, to be fair,...

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Saved! Exploring Faith From the Outside #TBT

Jacob SahmsAug 18, 2016

Let's be honest: every satirical film I've seen since 2004 has been gauged against?Saved!?At the time of the film's release, I knew only that it starred Jena Malone and Mandy Moore (two hit-list actresses at the time) and was produced by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. But...

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Gotham – The Complete Second Season: Darkness Rises

Jacob SahmsAug 17, 2016

Oh, Gotham, how I love and loathe thee. The darkly resplendent world of Batman, Gotham City reigns supreme with nuances that outdo the likes of Metropolis or Star City when it comes to the background that births a hero. But in the Complete Second Season of...

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11.22.63: Stephen King Takes on History

Jacob SahmsAug 17, 2016

11.22.63,?Stephen King's time-bending novel, has been adapted by Bridget Carpenter (Friday Night Lights, The Red Road) for Hulu. Now, available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD,?11.22.63?takes us on a twisty road from the present back to the 1960s in a darker?Back to...

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The Huntsman’s Nicolas-Troyan on Cooking, Charlize Theron, & Highlander

Jacob SahmsAug 16, 2016

Cedric Nicolas Troyan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects on?Snow White & the Huntsman, directed?The Huntsman: Winter's War?out now on Digital HD (and on Blu-ray on August 23). After directing Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain, Emily...

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