Jacobs, M. W.

M.W.Jacobs has a qualification for commenting on movies that nearly all "professional film critics" lack: he wrote, directed, produced, and edited a feature film (available on You Tube as "Twisted Tales from Edgar Allan Poe"). It was low budget and independently produced and made during the advent of the home video market in the early Eighties. In the late Eighties, he worked for George Lucas' special effects division, Industrial Light and Magic. Then he became a history teacher, and for nearly twenty years, he searched for the most effective way to teach the subject that polls perennially ran...