By Jacob Sahms The quick Shakespearean recap for those who weren’t subjected to the works of the English bard in high school or college: Macbeth gamely wins a victory for his King Duncan over the Thane of Cawdor, and is rewarded with the Thane of Cawdor position for himself. But in the meantime, three witches […]
By Jacob Sahms In 2006, an improvised explosive device killed United States Army First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, the fiance of Dana Canedy, then-senior New York Times editor, but Canedy refused to let King’s death silence his voice. She wrote an essay for the Times about King’s sacrifice and the journal he kept for their […]
By Jacob Sahms In the latest adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s middle reader series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the middle school cartoonist Greg Heffley gets animated, literally. Director Swinton Scott of The Simpsons puts Kinney’s characters through their paces in a translation of the first book in the series, complete with Heffley’s friend Rowley Jefferson and stinky cheese. […]
By Jacob Sahms Born in 1943, Arthur Ashe grew up in Richmond, Virginia, drawing attention to matters of race and class through his ability to play tennis and to speak to the issues he had experienced. While he became the first black player chosen for the United States Davis Cup team, won three Grand Slams singles […]
By Jacob Sahms A Boy Called Christmas begins with children left alone with an older relative who spins them a story, this time by Dame Maggie Smith as Aunt Ruth. Soon, the audience is transported to a mythical, old-timey setting where the little boy Nikolas lives with his father Joel, a simple woodcutter. Nicholas’ mother […]
By Jacob Sahms “You are a product of all that came before you. The legacy of the good and the bad, it is part of who you are.”—Ying Nan In Marvel’s Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the hero of our story is a valet when the audience meets him. He’s an […]
By Jacob Sahms Set in a post-apocalyptic America that seems all too realistic, Finch follows Tom Hanks’ Finch Weinberg, a robotics engineer builds a robot called Jeff (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones) to care for his dog Goodyear when he passes away. With a storm threatening his St. Louis home, with a lasting duration of forty days, […]
By Jacob Sahms The Erwins Brothers’ (Woodlawn, I Can Only Imagine) latest film, the documentary The Jesus Music, opens with introductory clips of today’s top Christian artists before rewinding the timeline back to the 1970s. Through interviews and footage of events through the years, the film unpacks how Christians making music are impacting culture, and […]
By Jacob Sahms A high school senior writes a letter to himself as part of his therapy for anxiety and depression, only to have the letter stolen by an angry young man who then commits suicide. When the letter is recovered on his body, the dead youth’s family believes that the two teenagers were friends, […]
Jonah, Sight & Sound Theatre’s retelling of the epic fish story, arrives Friday, September 3 at 8 p.m. on Sight & Sound TV. Ready to make a splash with audiences old and new, the story from the stage in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, can play in your living room this weekend. Having shared stories of Biblical importance […]