It’s strange to say that a film based around the Holocaust is more hopeful than a number of TIFF entries, but it’s true. Barry Levinson’s The Survivor is based on the real life story of Hertzko Haft, a jewish boxer who survived Auschwitz by fighting 76 brutal life or death matches against other Jewish prisoners, only to …
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Hell or High Water review: This Indie Sleeper Deserves a Flood of Awards
In the running this awards season is the Indie buzz magnet HELL OR HIGH WATER. Directed David Mackenzie, the director of English award winner STARRED UP, this film was originally released as COMANCHERIA, based on a script by SICARIO writer Taylor Sheridan, which topped the Hollywood script blacklist in 2012. Since another movie created from that …