Emelie Mahdavian of MIDNIGHT TRAVELER with Chris Reed
My Hammer to Nail coverage of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival continues with four more reviews and one interview:
In addition, here is my review of United Skates!
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Captain Marvel (Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck, 2019)
As I always feel compelled to write at the start of a review about a Marvel film, I am no fan boy of the superhero genre, having long-ago abandoned any real interest in comics. I do, however, love good action/adventure sagas, and so I approach each and every movie like this with the hope that it will deliver thrills and more. The good ones (or at least the entertaining ones) among them – Ant-Man, Black Panther, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Iron Man and Thor: Ragnarok – tell their stories through as much wit and charm as muscle and CGI, with the best among them (Black Panther and Winter Soldier, and to a lesser degree Iron Man) folding in socially relevant commentary, as well (and though Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a work of rare genius, it is sui generis, not really part of the general Marvel series). I also happen to like compelling origin tales. Guess what, O fans and casual viewers? Captain Marvel offers not only a great introduction to a new character, but also a super-compelling fable with something to say about the real world. What more could one ask for? Continue reading
In the past week, Film Festival Today published 4 reviews of mine plus 1 interview:
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We discuss portrayals of Southern culture as we look at Hillbilly and Chris interviews Morrisa Maltz, the director of Ingrid.
As always, you can find the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available.
This week, the topic is audience fascination with films about the ultra-wealthy in a time of great economic disparity, as we discuss The Price of Everything and I (Chris Reed) interview Lauren Greenfield, the director of Generation Wealth.
As always, you can find the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available. Enjoy!
The 91st Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 24. Just this week, Hammer to Nail ran my reviews of all 15 Oscar-nominated short films, by category. Here are those three pieces:
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Today – Thursday, February 21, 2019 – Linda DeLibero and I joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, “Roughly Speaking,” to discuss the 91st Academy Awards, which will air on Sunday, February 24. Here is the link to that episode. Enjoy!
This week we talk Oscars with a brief discussion of the documentary-feature nominees and a more intensive review of each nominated short, as well as kvetch generally about the complicated relationship between documentary films and Oscar, and also interview Robert Bahar, co-director of The Silence of Others.
Oscar Shorts Reviewed:
To see the video that accompanies our interview with Bing Liu – from the 2018 AFI DOCS festival – go to our “video extras” page. As always, you can find the audio of the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available. Enjoy!
In the past two weeks, Film Festival Today published 3 reviews of mine:
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Chris Reed with co-directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier of ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH
My Hammer to Nail coverage of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival continues with more reviews and one interview:
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