Jacob Sahms

Age Of Adaline: Coming To Grips With Life & Love

Jacob SahmsSep 8, 2015

If we're honest with ourselves, we have questions about what happens next. In the next five minutes, the next five years, in the next ... hereafter. Our fiction reflects this, as we read stories and watch movies about people who live forever, people who create...

American Heist: Two Brothers Walk Into A Bank…

Jacob SahmsSep 8, 2015

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Two brothers commit a violent crime; one brother goes to jail and is completely tormented by life beyond bars, while the other tries to make amends (and finds love). Once released, the first/older brother urges the...

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Michael Polish & Kate Bosworth On Marriage, 90 Minutes In Heaven, & The Dallas Cowboys

Jacob SahmsSep 7, 2015

In August, over the course of seventy-two hours, I watched the fascinating (and creepy) thriller?Amnesiac,?followed by?the based-on-a-memoir biopic 90 Minutes From Heaven. I quickly realized that even though?the two films were wildly different, they both starred the...

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Lost & Justified Veteran M.C. Gainey Says Everyone Deserves Redemption

Jacob SahmsSep 4, 2015

M.C. Gainey has been the face of evil?for years. The journeyman actor has played Tom Friendly in?Lost and Bo Crowder in?Justified, with guest appearances in series from?Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?to?CSI and supporting roles in various movies over the last thirty-five...

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Mad Max Fury Road: No Greater Love

Jacob SahmsSep 1, 2015

I was skeptical of George Miller's sequel to his?Road Warrior?films after so many years away. Seriously, he made?Babe?and two?Happy Feet?movies more recently than he told a Mad Max story. How could?Fury Road?be any good? But as I admitted here, I thought the film was...

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10 Most Intriguing Films Of Fall 2015

Jacob SahmsAug 17, 2015

One of the things I look forward to most is laying out the films to highlight in the fall. Sure, the summer film preview is a blast - it's usually full of grand, action-packed adventures - but it's nothing like the various thoughtful features that emerge when the kids...

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Amnesiac: Who Tells You Who You Are?

Jacob SahmsAug 14, 2015

In a creepy, surreal thriller directed by?Michael Polish (Astronaut Farmer, 90 Minutes From Heaven), a man awakens after a car accident to find himself without memories and locked in a house by a woman who demands he provide her with a child. Wes Bentley (Hunger...

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Final Girl: Not Everyone Is A Victim

Jacob SahmsAug 13, 2015

In the inaugural indie thriller by Tyler Shields, a pack of young men spend their Saturday nights chasing young women through the woods for sport. The men think that they're dominant, that they have a right to pursue these women [can you hear the contemporary societal...

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Big Sky: Breaking Out Of The Box

Jacob SahmsAug 12, 2015

The sky might be big and blue, but that's not looking like a plus. Hazel (Bella Thorne) has problems. She's agoraphobic (fearing wide-open spaces?and?lots of people). Her father and mother, Dee (Kyra Sedgwick), are in a nasty divorce process. If that isn't enough, two...

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