ESPN Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/espn/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:00:20 +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 ESPN Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/espn/ 32 32 LENNY COOKE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/lenny-cooke-film-review/ Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:45:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22242

The Safdie Brothers' documentary feature debut plays up their subject’s squandered potential while also preserving his humanity and his status as a victim of the fundamentally crooked professional amateur sports complex.

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]]> A Conversation With Josh and Benny Safdie and Adam Shopkorn (LENNY COOKE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-josh-and-benny-safdie-and-adam-shopkorn-lenny-cooke/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-josh-and-benny-safdie-and-adam-shopkorn-lenny-cooke/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:00:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20466 (Lenny Cooke opens theatrically on Friday, December 6, 2013. It world premiered in the Viewpoints Section at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Visit the film’s official website to learn more. NOTE: This piece was first published on April 24, 2013.) […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-josh-and-benny-safdie-and-adam-shopkorn-lenny-cooke/feed/ 1 BEST THAT NEVER WAS, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-best-that-never-was-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-best-that-never-was-film-review/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:13:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=7089

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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]]> FOUR DAYS IN OCTOBER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/four-days-in-october-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/four-days-in-october-film-review/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6470

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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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/four-days-in-october-film-review/feed/ 2 UNMATCHED https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/unmatched-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/unmatched-film-review/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:32:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6102

(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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]]> DVD RELEASES 2010/8/17 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/august-17-2010/ Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:51:09 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5758 Recommends The Conversation (Lionsgate) — Truth be told, I didn’t do enough research to know what makes the release of this Francis Ford Coppola classic different from any others—had it become unavailable for some dumb reason?—but it is The Conversation, […]

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]]> BIRTH OF BIG AIR, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-birth-of-big-air-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-birth-of-big-air-film-review/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:18:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5531

(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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(June 17, 1994 premieres on ESPN on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, and airs several more times in the following days and weeks. Visit the film’s page at the 30 For 30 website for screening details and to watch a trailer.) […]

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