Zero Days Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/zero-days/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:13:43 +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 Zero Days Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/zero-days/ 32 32 BOOM! BOOM! THE WORLD VS. BORIS BECKER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/boris-becker-doc/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 20:55:23 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=39244

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker, the latest film from prolific documentarian Alex Gibney. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) He can’t stop, won’t stop, doesn’t stop. That’s […]

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]]> A Conversation with Alex Gibney (THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/alex-gibney/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 17:29:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30974 On Saturday, March 9, 2019, at SXSW, I took part in a press roundtable with director Alex Gibney, along with producers Jessie Deeter and Erin Edeiken, to discuss his latest documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (which […]

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]]> THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-inventor-review/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:14:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30765

Gibney peels back the many layers of fiction – or, to reappropriate the film's title with a secondary meaning, of "invention" – that made for appealing fantasy until the nightmare of reality dispelled the magic

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]]> NATIONAL BIRD https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/national-bird-review/ Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:15:52 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27222

See the film, get angry, and let's figure out how to stop the madness perpetrated in our name.

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]]> Chris Reed’s AFI DOCS Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/chris-reeds-afi-docs-wrap-up/ Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:08:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26776 The American Film Institute (AFI) was founded in 1967 “as a national arts organization to train filmmakers and preserve America’s vanishing film heritage.” As such, it has been a wonderful archivist of, and proselytizer for, great American contributions to global […]

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]]> A Brief Chat With Alex Gibney (ZERO DAYS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-brief-chat-with-alex-gibney/ Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:37:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26735 I had a chance to catch up with prolific director Alex Gibney for a few minutes on the red carpet at the 2016 AFIDOCS on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, to discuss his new documentary, Zero Days, which I also reviewed […]

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]]> ZERO DAYS https://www.hammertonail.com/coming-soon/zero-days-movie-review/ Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:34:54 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26708

Hubris and its consequences form the investigative spine of Gibney’s career, and what makes Zero Days, its narrative density notwithstanding, especially chilling is that we just don’t know...

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