Prodigal Sons Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/prodigal-sons/ What to Watch Wed, 05 Jun 2024 02:01:19 +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 Prodigal Sons Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/prodigal-sons/ 32 32 A Conversation With Kimberly Reed (DARK MONEY) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/kimberly-reed-interview/ Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:46:54 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29930 I met with director Kimberly Reed (no relation) on Thursday, June 14, 2018, at AFI DOCS, to discuss her feature documentary Dark Money (which I also reviewed). In the film, Reed discusses the many ways in which money distorts politics, […]

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]]> DARK MONEY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/dark-money-review/ Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:45:40 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29771

The story it tells is a bleak one, though there is hope in the effectiveness (so far) of the resistance, and the heartening site of collaboration across the political spectrum.

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]]> SUNDANCE ’14: TULLY’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-2014-michael-tully-wrap-up/ Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:44:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22675 As a director who presented a new feature at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, I have found all of the press coming out of Park City lamenting the “meager deals” and somehow linking that to the “lackluster quality” of the […]

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2010/7/20 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-july-20-2010/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:42:53 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5270 This week brings a serious overload of very good stuff: Prodigal Sons (First Run Features) — Buy it on DVD. A Town Called Panic (Zeitgeist) — Buy it on DVD. The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the […]

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]]> NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: Issue #9 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-9/ Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:46:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5337 Just so you guys have no excuses, we’re doing two months at once this time around. ***ISSUE #9: JUNE/JULY ‘10*** Red Without Blue (2007) — This moving and fascinating film is the documentary feature début of Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills […]

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]]> PRODIGAL SONS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/prodigal-sons-film-review/ Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:05:24 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2552

(Prodigal Sons is now playing at Cinema Village. It expands to more cities on March 5, 2010. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) I’m not going to write a traditional review of Kimberly Reed’s Prodigal Sons, for fear […]

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]]> MOVIES ON BIG SCREENS – August 28, 2009 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/movies-on-big-screens-august-28-2009/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:17:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2500 Well, folks, it’s another absolutely loaded weekend in New York City theaters. We’ll get to new releases first, then point you in the direction of enough enticing repertory action to keep you in the dark all weekend long: NEW RELEASES […]

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