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…
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…
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…
Extrapolated from Greg Palast’s 2002 book, there’s a chilling relevancy to the research and interviews that still resonate in America’s 2016 elections in which Republican nominee Donald Trump repeatedly brought up voter fraud and claims of a ‘rigged system’ that prevents the country’s paler disenfranchised from reclaiming the greatness of their country and the White House…
The FBI Story (1959) and Strategic Air Command (1955) form James Stewart’s unofficial government propaganda diptych where two agencies – ground-level and aerospace, respectively – are portrayed as necessary bodies, always on guard against evil that threatens the sanctity and virtue of the American way…
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