By Jacob Sahms In a world where audiences pay more for films with splashy colors exploding across CGI screens and excessive action scenes that devolve from plot points into set-ups for the next action scene, Edson Oda’s Nine Days stands out. Because it’s not the explosion that draws the audience in but the lyrical nature of the […]
By Jacob Sahms Disney has a strong track record with entertainment revolving around animals, like The Jungle Book, Lady & the Tramp, etc. But their latest release is a television series based on the Tom Hanks’ film Turner & Hooch with Josh Peck playing Hanks’ son, Scott Turner Jr. While the original film ends badly for Hooch, the […]
By Jacob Sahms If I told you that Chris McKay of The Lego Movie and Robot Chicken directed a movie, you would definitively get the wrong idea about The Tomorrow War. But if I told you that Chris Pratt made a movie that was the cinematic descendant of Independence Day and Edge of Tomorrow, you might begin to get the idea about the […]
By Jacob Sahms Kevin Hart has made a living being louder and more profane than the guy next to him. That sentence alone might have caused you to stop reading. I hope that you haven’t. Because with Netflix’s Fatherhood, Hart may have made his first movie that matters. Matthew Logelin (Hart) doesn’t know what to do […]
By Jacob Sahms In Disney’s latest Pixar film Luca, a young sea monster explores the world of humans on land, discovering what it means to be himself in the process. Working as a shepherd of sheep-like fish, Luca Paguro (Jacob Tremblay) dreams of life above the surface, occasionally angering his protective parents (Maya Rudolph and […]
By Jacob Sahms In 2005, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes delivered their musical In the Heights on stage, and after a decade of near cinematic development, it arrived on screens this June. Released on HBO Max and in theaters, the film shares the intergenerational story of the Manhattan neighborhood Washington Heights. Directed by the Crazy […]
By Jacob Sahms From 1927 to 1942, football coach Rusty Russell led the orphans of Fort Worth Masonic Home on to the field against football teams from Class 5 schools, the top high schools in Texas. In 2007, Junction Boys author Jim Dent wrote Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas […]
By Jacob Sahms Danny (Alain Uy), Hing (Ron Yuan), and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins) learned the beautiful, powerful lessons of gung-fu (the Chinese spelling for kung fu) as young men under the tutelage of Sifu Cheung (Roger Yuan). Now, they’ve gone about their lives as adults – living on a workman’s comp settlement or as […]
By Jacob Sahms Blue Miracle provides Netflix with a faith-based, family-friendly feature film to call its own. Based on a true story from Mexico, orphans in Cabo San Lucas entered the Bisbee’s Black & Blue Fishing Tournament in hopes of hooking a valuable blue marlin and paying off their orphanage’s debts. While the action of […]
By Jacob Sahms Fans of The Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Mandalorian, rejoice! Dave Filoni returns to the screen with Disney+’s The Bad Batch, following the Clone Force 99, a genetically divergent group of clones introduced in The Clone Wars. These clones did not follow through with the Order 66, Palpatine’s order to kill all […]