Too often, family-friendly movies based on TV shows result in… extended episodes of the TV show with little-to-no added depth or a sort of Frankenstein-ing of the childhood characters. In Nick Jr.’s first foray into the adaptation game, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Isabela Broner brought the animated adventurer to life in a way […]
By Jacob Sahms In Cry Macho, Clint Eastwood and Gran Turino collaborator Nick Schenk have adapted the screenplay from N. Richard Nash’s novel. While the story follows retired Texas rodeo cowboy Mike Milo (Eastwood) into Mexico, where he’s sent to retrieve his former boss’s, Howard Polk (Dwight Yoakam), son. Young Rafo Polk (Eduardo Minett) lives […]
By Jacob Sahms Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker rose to prominence with their televangelist show The PTL Club (1974-87) and the Christian-themed amusement park Heritage USA. In the dramatization of the 2000 documentary of the same name, The Eyes of Tammy Faye looks at how the couple fell in love, pursued their understanding of God’s […]
By Jacob Sahms On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City. This is well-known even by young people who weren’t alive at the time. But a lesser-known story is of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, where thirty-eight plans were forced to emergency land, the subject of husband-and-wife Irene Sankoff and David […]
By Jacob Sahms After the events of Monsters Inc., Mike and Sully (Billy Crystal and John Goodman) find themselves directing the business of the company, up to their glorious animated eyeballs in protocols, paperwork, and problems that they never imagined. Of course, they still have to deal with a cranky administrator, but this time it’s Roz’s twin […]
By Jacob Sahms In the latest Warner Bros./DC Comics film, a group of broken individuals join together to save the world – or at least save themselves. The Suicide Squad, a mash-up sequel and reboot of 2016’s Suicide Squad, finds a group of violent criminals going behind enemy lines to complete a mission that no […]
By Jacob Sahms No one should be surprised at this point to find out that Vin Diesel says he wants the future of the Fast & Furious series to include time travel. They’ve driven cars out of planes, cars over planes, magnetized vehicles, had the Rock fight Jason Statham, and in the latest, F9, they’ve had a car strapped […]
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 […]