Sandy Schaefer
Expertise
Star Wars, Animation, Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Sandy has seen the Ewok movies multiple times and can tell you why they're good, actually.
- Sandy keeps replicas of Gonzo the Great and the Crystal of Truth on their work desk.
- One time they passed by George R.R. Martin in a hallway (he was short).
Experience
Sandy has worked as a professional writer and editor since the late 2000s. They got their start writing about film history for Examiner before becoming a staff writer and, eventually, an editor at Screen Rant in 2010. Sandy has also written about comic books, films, and television at Comic Book Resources. They joined /Film in 2021.
Education
Sandy holds a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Anthropology from the University of Utah. They also studied film and media while writing for the Arts and Entertainment section of The Daily Utah Chronicle.
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Stories By Sandy Schaefer
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Eli Roth was on-hand at CinemaCon to present brand-new footage from his slow-developing Borderlands video game movie adaptation. Here's what we saw.
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Civil War director Alex Garland recruited a real-life Navy SEAL to bring a greater sense of authenticity to one of the movie's most intense sequences.
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Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night, tries her hand at directing a creepy thriller with The Watchers. Here's what we saw from the film at CinemaCon.
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Kevin Costner is heading back to the Old West with Horizon: An American Saga, and we were on hand to check out some new footage at CinemaCon.
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Rebecca Henderson is starring in Star Wars: The Acolyte as Vernestra Rwoh, a Jedi who's appeared as a much younger character in the High Republic novels.
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While the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Disney+ shows have been all over the place, Ms. Marvel is currently the highest-ranked MCU project on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Most of the All in the Family cast and crew were ready to call it a day after season 8, but Caroll O'Connor felt otherwise.
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Scheduling conflicts led to Vincent (Ryan Cartwright) getting killed in Bones season 6, as much as the show's producers did their best to avoid it.
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Much like Star Trek's Betazoids, Star Wars has its own hedonistic alien race known as the Zeltrons, and we've got a breakdown of everything you need to know.
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Steven Spielberg might've never directed Jaws had another filmmaker not irked the original book's author, Peter Benchley, during their first meeting.
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When Bones homaged Golden Age Hollywood in its 200th episode (including Alfred Hitchcock's work), the opening credits proved to be an unexpected challenge.
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Paul Greengrass' Watchmen movie would have been very different from Zack Snyder's adaptation, starting with an opening that evoked DC's Big Blue Boy Scout.
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The filmmakers behind Ready or Not and Scream are bringing vampire horror back to the big screen with Abigail. Check out the movie's new trailer here.
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These violent delights may finally get a proper ending if Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan has anything to say about it.
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Stranger Things season 3 features some of the nastier visual effects of the entire series thanks to the Mind Flayer and some not-so-lucky rats.
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It took his performance on the short-lived series Headmaster for Rob Reiner to finally land the role of Mike 'Meathead' Stivic on All in the Family.
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James Wan is producing a film adaptation of the Stephen King horror short story The Monkey and it boasts quite the talented cast and crew.
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Paramount is once again trying to get a fourth (and, as currently planned, final) Star Trek movie set in the Kelvin timeline off the ground.
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A trailer has arrived for Kinds of Kindness, an anthology movie reuniting Emma Stone with her The Favourite and Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos.
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Netflix viewers have propelled the little-seen (but mostly well-received) Brian Cox veteran drama Mending the Line into the streamer's Top 10.
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Jason Statham has nothing against Marvel films and other superhero movies. They're not just his preferred genre of action flick.
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Cancer storylines are very tricky to handle, which is why the Bones writers felt Wendell was uniquely qualified to handle such an emotionally challenging arc.
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Michael Keaton finally reprises his role as the B-man in the official trailer for Tim Burton's sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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Tim Burton considered tipping his hat to a Christopher Lee horror classic with the alternate title for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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Evil Dead and Don't Breathe director Fede Álvarez puts his spin on the Alien franchise in the official trailer for Alien: Romulus.
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The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland is taking heavy inspiration from the Nightsisters on the animated Clone Wars series for her live-action Star Wars show.
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Steven Moffat is returning to write an episode for Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor in the new season of Doctor Who (for better or for worse).
