Hunter S. Thompson Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/hunter-s-thompson/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:01:32 +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 Hunter S. Thompson Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/hunter-s-thompson/ 32 32 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BROWN BUFFALO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-brown-buffalo/ Wed, 23 May 2018 20:49:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29668

Who needs drugs when you have good filmmaking?

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART NINE: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (2012) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/on-the-fringe-9/ Wed, 02 May 2018 16:52:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29533 Beasts of the Southern Wild is a film about the end of the world. Or, more to the point, the end of the universe. More remarkably still, it is also a celebration. A celebration of survival, of freedom and – why not? […]

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]]> THE NEW ROMANTIC https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-new-romantic/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:47:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29506

When is the last time you’ve been swept off your feet by someone you swiped right on Tinder? Exactly.

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART TWO: THE EXILES (1961) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-2/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:26:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29144 In his seminal 1973 book The Country and the City, Raymond Williams lays out the great divide that he suggests exists between the concepts of “Natur[al]” and “native.” With apologies to Williams, a principle progenitor of “cultural studies” as an academic […]

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: STRAW DOGS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/criterion-straw-dogs/ Tue, 01 Aug 2017 22:38:08 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28436

Had I seen it when I was young, I probably would have been fascinated by Kael’s observation, wondering, with the idle intellectualism common at that age, how one might deal with a fascist film when one is not a fascist themselves.

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]]> NICK NOLTE: NO EXIT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/nick-nolte-no-exit-film-review/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:57:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2438

(Nick Nolte: No Exit is now available On Demand through Sundance Selects. Peruse your local cable provider to track it down.) In Tom Thurman’s documentary Nick Nolte: No Exit, notoriously troubled actor Nick Nolte interviews himself about his complicated life. […]

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