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Anyone who doesn’t have fun watching this movie has no beating heart.

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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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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Five (Part 2) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/experimental/digital-gods-2-5-2/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:19:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30034 In the last Digital Gods installment, we examined the cultural context surrounding MDMAfilms, the production company created by authors Megan Boyle and Tao Lin. This article will now look at the actual movies that MDMAfilms produced. Particularly, this piece will […]

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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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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: LINKLATER’S “BEFORE” TRILOGY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/criterion-before-trilogy/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:19:28 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27945

I’m a middle-aged guy with a family who has been married for nearly 20 years, so the Before movies hit me between the eyes.

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: BOYHOOD https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/criterion-boyhood/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 18:41:16 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27306

(As you may have noticed, it’s holiday season! As a result, Hammer to Nail is going to bust out some reviews of the latest and greatest Criterion Blu Rays as well as re-running reviews and interviews of films that are […]

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]]> Bidding Adieu to Chantal Akerman https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/bidding-adieu-to-chantal-akerman/ Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:04:53 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25139 (Earlier this month the world lost renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Yet her films will always live on and her final film, No Home Movie which recently played the New York Film Festival, was a touching yet realistic sendoff to a cinematic great.) […]

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]]> GIMME THE LOOT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/gimme-the-loot-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/gimme-the-loot-film-review/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:00:19 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20118

Never sacrificing one for the other, Gimme The Loot somehow manages to be both raw and sweet at the same time.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/gimme-the-loot-film-review/feed/ 2 A Conversation with Kyle Henry and Paul Soileau (FOURPLAY) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-kyle-henry-and-paul-soileau-fourplay/ Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:39:25 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18030 The first time I saw Christeene was when the (NSFW!) PJ Raval-directed video for her electro-rap song “Fix My Dick” came out a couple years ago. It was really funny and dark and dirty on a lot of levels, but […]

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