BR: Eye of the Needle (1981)
Needle is also a film packed with contrasts and cruel ironies, making audiences never fully side with any single person wholeheartedly…
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BR: Anthropoid (2016)
After expanding his Oscar-winning short film Cashback into a 2006 feature film and directing the eerie, atmospheric, but ultimately nonsensical horror shocker The Broken (2008), Sean Ellis took a break from feature films an flipped back to a few short projects, but recently came back with two intriguing dramas…
DVD: Broken, The (2008)
Jack Finney’s The Body Snatchers remains one of the most inspirational horror novels ever written, so it’s expected every once in a while a director takes a poke at the theme of substitution: of a person suddenly replaced by another due to some eerie conspiracy…
DVD: Cashback (2006)
Sean Ellis’ feature film debut is actually an expansion of his same-titled, Oscar nominated short film from 2004, which had a struggling art school student named Ben discovers he could stop time…
Voting Day in the U.S.A. and Greg Palast’s The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2016)
Review of Greg Palast’s cautionary / agit-doc The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2016), currently ending its run at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.
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