The Wolf of Wall Street Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-wolf-of-wall-street/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:09:06 +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 The Wolf of Wall Street Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-wolf-of-wall-street/ 32 32 THE KLEPTOCRATS https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/the-kleptocrats-review/ Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:50:44 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30480

Imagine a government setting up an investment fund from taxpayer revenues and then using said monies for the personal enrichment of the leader. That could never happen here, right?

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]]> LORO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/loro-review/ Mon, 22 Oct 2018 21:39:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30296

Filled with drugs, nudity (mostly of the female variety) and sex galore, Loro is made with such panache and visual wit that it (almost) comes across as hypocrisy when it tries to remind us that no, such things can lead to a bad end.

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THE AGE OF INNOCENCE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/criterion-age-of-innocence/ Wed, 11 Apr 2018 22:44:37 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29418

If the idea of wealthy people metaphorically stabbing each other in old world Manhattan sounds good, then The Age of Innocence is right up your alley.

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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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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART THREE: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-3/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29240 Something was happening in the American cinema starting in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Among other progressions in societal mores, technology and legalities, this decade+ could arguably be considered a Golden Age of courageous truth-telling films that mine […]

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