(The 2024 Slamdance Film Festival runs January 19-25 and virtually on the Slamdance Channel from January 22-28 with over 125 film programs and live events. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Nina is an Athlete. Seen it? Join the […]

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(After its premiere at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, Bao Nguyen’s Bruce Lee doc Be Water is a part of ESPN’s excellent “30 for 30” series staring Sunday, June 7. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give […]

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I met with director Billy Corben (Cocaine Cowboys) and producer Alfred Spellman on Saturday, September 8, 2018, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss their latest feature documentary Screwball (which I also reviewed). The film tells the story of […]

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I met with director Jason Kohn on Saturday, March 24, at the 2018 Annapolis Film Festival, where he screened his documentary Love Means Zero (which I had previously seen, and reviewed, at DOC NYC 2017), the recipient of the festival’s […]

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In looking back on the events that led to his disappointingly unfulfilled career, Dupree reveals himself to be a quiet, humble hero filled with humility and grace.

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It isn’t just the recent streak of less-than-mediocre entries in ESPN’s 30 For 30 series that makes Michael Tolajian’s Once Brothers stand out. It’s a very strong work, in which the grand scope of the Yugoslav Wars of the early 1990s is personalized through the relationship—and unfortunate falling out—between former NBA stars Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic.

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Hey Yankees fans, wanna revisit the 2004 ALCS when your hated rival the Boston Red Sox made a historic comeback from 0-3 to beat you in game 7? Then this is the film for you! Ahahahahahaha!!!

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(Unmatched premieres on ESPN at 8pm on Tuesday, September 14, 2010. Visit the film’s page at the 30 For 30 website for additional screening dates and times.) When it comes to Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern Winters’s Unmatched, I think […]

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(One Night in Vegas premieres on ESPN Tuesday September 7, 2010, at 8pm. Visit the film’s page at the 30 For 30 website for more screening dates and times.) In One Night in Vegas, Reggie Rock Bythewood uses the fateful […]

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(The Birth of Big Air premieres Thursday, July 29th, at 7pm on ESPN. Visit the film’s page at the 30 For 30 website to learn more.) Two things are made abundantly clear while watching The Birth of Big Air, Jeff […]

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