Author Archive: Joe Sanders
Joe Sanders is a playwright and college instructor in Kalamazoo, MI. He has a master's degree in playwriting and a bachelor's degree in creative writing from Western Michigan University, where he currently teaches thought and writing.
Butter
For 15 years, Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell) has dominated the Iowa state butter sculpting competition. His wife Laura (Jennifer Gardner) sees the competition as a stepping stone to fame and prestige, so when Bob agrees to not compete this year and give someone else a chance, Laura loses it and enters the competition herself. Also [...]
Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters
Kaiju are monsters. There are hundreds of different species, each with their own abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. Kaiju live in a parallel dimension, hidden from our world by a magic veil and controlled by an elite group of specialized warriors. These warriors practice Kaijudo, which is a martial art centered around the summoning and controlling [...]
The Day
What if one day in the near future, a significant portion of the population decided to start hunting, killing, and eating the rest of humanity? What if they were so successful that no government or military was able to stop them and in the course of events, these predators managed to wipe out most of [...]
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
For the first time on Blu-ray, everyone’s favorite time-traveling, air-guitaring, most triumphant dudes are back. In time. That’s stupid, forget I said that. I haven’t watched Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure in years. I used to watch it all the time when I was a kid, and I’m sure that this and Back to the [...]
The Watch
Overachieving Costco manager Evan Trotwig (Ben Stiller) decides to start a neighborhood watch after one of his employees is brutally murdered. Recruiting the help of local citizens, Bob (Vince Vaughn), Franklin (Johan Hill), and Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade; The IT Crowd), Evan and his neighborhood watch stumble onto a massive alien conspiracy to take over the [...]
Stephen Sondheim’s Company
Neil Patrick Harris (CBS’s How I Met Your Mother) leads an all-star cast including Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), and Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men). Harris plays Robert, a bachelor surrounded by married friends, and as he turns 35, Robert begins to think about marriage and why he isn’t [...]
Even the Rain
When filmmakers Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Costa (Luis Tosar) fly to Bolivia to shoot a film about Christopher Columbus, they do so to save money. But when they find themselves caught in the middle of a local conflict between the natives and a huge corporation who’s trying to control their water supply, the filmmakers [...]
Ruby Sparks
It’s been 10 years since Calvin (Paul Dano; Little Miss Sunshine) published his first and only novel. He was in high school when the book came out and achieved overnight success as a writing prodigy. Since then, he’s been struggling to turn out a follow-up, but a dream about the perfect woman sends him into [...]
Jim Gaffigan: Mr. Universe
Fan favorite stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan returns to the stage for a new special. Riffing on a breadth of new topics like how unimpressive it is to become a father for the fourth time, and how Disney Land is a lot like the DMV, Gaffigan is about on par in his new special, so if [...]
Prometheus
Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel tells the story of two archaeologists, Elizabeth Shaw and her husband Charlie Holloway (Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green), who find an ancient pictograph in a cave of an alien lifeform pointing to the stars. Interpreting the image as a an invitation from a powerful alien race, the archaeologists along with a [...]
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