Bret Easton Ellis Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/bret-easton-ellis/ What to Watch Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:05:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Bret Easton Ellis Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/bret-easton-ellis/ 32 32 BRATS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/brats/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:35:15 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51076

(The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 5-16, and as always, we had many boots on the ground. Check out Chris Reed’s Brats movie review. It is now streaming on Hulu. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.2) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/digital-gods-2-6-3-2/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:03:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30100 (The following is the second half of Nick Toti’s interview with Megan Boyle and Tao Lin of MDMAfilms. Part one can be found here.) Hammer to Nail: A lot of reviews of your movies that I’ve read compare the MDMAfilms project […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.1) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/digital-gods-2-6-3/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:35:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30094 This interview is the third and final installment of my series on MDMAfilms. To be as frank as possible, I’m not terribly happy with how this interview turned out, but I think it’s worth publishing regardless. Both Megan Boyle and […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART SIX: GAS, FOOD LODGING (1992) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/on-the-fringe-6/ Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:20:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29409 Allison Anders’ sophomore feature Gas, Food Lodging is an aspirational film about fantasy. It is in many ways an antithesis of the kind of movies I’ve been chronicling and will continue to discuss with my “On the Fringe” series. Gas, Food Lodging is in fact an […]

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]]> A Conversation with Lauren Greenfield (GENERATION WEALTH) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/lauren-greenfield-interview/ Fri, 30 Mar 2018 21:23:56 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29329 I met with director Lauren Greenfield, of the new documentary feature Generation Wealth (which I also reviewed), on Sunday, March 11, at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival. The film discusses the wages of capitalist sin over the past quarter-century, chronicling […]

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]]> GENERATION WEALTH https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/generation-wealth/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:57:23 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29266

Though occasionally so broad in its reach that the focus breaks down in discursive asides, Generation Wealth offers, overall, a compelling and insightful look at the decline of Western civilization, so wrapped in excess that it ignores the impending apocalypse.

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]]> *WATCH NEW MOVIES AT HOME* — AUGUST ’13 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/watch-new-movies-at-home-august-2013/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/watch-new-movies-at-home-august-2013/#comments Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:17:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=21442 First things first: by changing our previously named “VOD Picks” post to “*Watch New Movies At Home*,” we aren’t telling you to ditch movie theaters in favor of staying glued to your comfy couches. It’s just that now more than […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/watch-new-movies-at-home-august-2013/feed/ 1 IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE!, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-imperialists-are-still-alive-film-review/ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:39:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=9716

The Imperialists Are Still Alive! is propelled forward (and backward, and sideways) less by by a streamlined narrative arc and more by the hope that its free-floating characters and scenes will ultimately coalesce into a larger picture.

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