By Jacob Sahms In My True Fairytale, seventeen-year-old Angie Goodwin disappears after a horrific car accident in Gardenland, FL, leaving the her family, her friends, and the police scrambling to find her. Meanwhile, Goodwin (Emma Kennedy), takes a journey of her own aimed at saving the world as she aims to become a real superhero. […]
By Jacob Sahms In Netflix’s film A Week Away, streaming Friday, troubled orphan Will (Kevin Quinn, Bunk’d) finds himself forced to attend the Christian summer camp run by devout Christians who love to have fun (David Koechner and Sherri Shepherd). But he also finds himself drawn to several of the camp regulars, Avery (Bailee Madison) […]
By Jacob Sahms Talking with comedian Thor Ramsey and director Christopher Shaw is a whirlwind of kinetic energy, theology, laughter, and wisdom. Together, they’ve taken an idea, then a script, and then a film trailer, and turned them into the feature-length comedy/romance/drama/satire that is the laugh out loud funny Church People. Ramsey wanted to make […]
By Jacob Sahms Nick Loeb is an actor, a businessman, a politician. But the forty-five year old who grew up loving the 1980s films of Steven Spielberg is making his directorial debut with Roe vs. Wade, a film about the legal battle over unborn children. Loeb also stars in the film as Bernard Nathanson, a […]
By Jacob Sahms The first time I talked to Chris Dowling, he had written the script for The Remaining, a film that transforms a wedding into a Left Behind-themed horror show in 2014. Later that year he directed the drama Where Love Grows from a script he wrote about a down-and-out baseball player (Kristoffer Polaha) […]
By Jacob Sahms Producer Shawnee Isaac-Smith (who has spent the past 20+ years collecting interviews for the doc) worked with Brazilian director Pedro Kos to bring the life of The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, nuns in the 1960s, to the screen. Standing up against patriarchy in the Catholic Church, these women stood […]
By Jacob Sahms Paul Greengrass burst onto the international film scene as the director of the second and third Bourne films with Matt Damon. He also made action-heavy films with deeper meanings, like United 93 and Green Zone, before teaming with Tom Hanks with the real-life story in Captain Phillips. In late 2020, he delivered […]
By Jacob Sahms Bradley Gosnell and Daniel Floren co-wrote the play Gun and a Hotel Bible, telling the story of a desperate man named Pete and the embodiment of the Gideon’s Bible (“Gid”) that he converses with headed toward a fateful decision. Over time, they looked to the story as a possible film, recruiting Alicia […]
By Jacob Sahms The Croods: A New Age director Joel Crawford may not be a name you know yet, but one day, his digital creations and his stories will be the ones that animation fans go seeking. He’s worked at Universal Pictures since 2006, with story artist credits on the Kung Fu Panda trilogy, Rise of the […]
By Jacob Sahms This is Part One of a two-part interview with the creators of The Three Wise Men, about their love for Christmas and their journey through Warner Bros. Animation and Illumination Entertainment to end up where they are today. In 1992, two animators were randomly paired together in a student cubicle at California […]