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1 Interview + 3 Reviews from Last Week: Janicza Bravo @hammertonail + “Good Time,” “Wind River” & “Leap!” @filmfesttoday

In the last week, I have written – and had posted – the following pieces: an interview with director Janicza…

Ballerina, Film Festival Today, Good Time, Hammer to Nail, Janicza Bravo, Leap!, Lemon, Wind River

2 Reviews from Last Week: “Ingrid Goes West” @hammertonail + “The Glass Castle” @filmfesttoday

For this Friday, I have nothing new to review (though I am working on a review of Good Time (for Film Festival…

Aubrey Plaza, Brie Larson, Destin Daniel Cretton, Elizabeth Olsen, Film Festival Today, Hammer to Nail, Ingrid Goes West, Jeannette Walls, Matthew Spicer, Naomi Watts, O’Shea Jackson Jr., The Glass Castle, Woody Harrelson

4 Reviews of 4 Recent Films of (Uneven) Interest: “Detroit,” “Girls Trip,” “Landline” and “The Little Hours”

Here are brief capsule write-ups for four recent films that I did not review for their respective opening weekends. Detroit (Kathryn…

Detroit, Gillian Robespierre, Girls Trip, Jeff Baena, Kathryn Bigelow, Landline, Malcom D. Lee, The Little Hours

Interview with “STEP” director Amanda Lipitz at “BmoreArt”

My interview with Amanda Lipitz, director of the inspirational new documentary STEP, ran yesterday at BmoreArt. Check it out at this link.

Amanda Lipitz, BmoreArt, STEP

@BaltimoreSun’s @RoughlySpeaking Podcast on the 50th Anniversary of Notable Films of 1967

On Friday, August 4, 2017,  Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University – and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that’s…

1967, Baltimore Sun, Bonnie and Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, Dan Rodricks, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, linda delibero, podcast, Sidney Poitier, The Graduate, To Sir with Love

2 Reviews + 2 Interviews – for “An Inconvenient Sequel” and “Menashe” @hammertonail & Review of “Atomic Blonde” @filmfesttoday

Last week, Hammer to Nail published four more articles of mine: a review of An Inconvenient Sequel, just released, but which I…

AFI DOCS, An Inconvenient Sequel, Atomic Blonde, Bonni Cohen, Charlize Theron, Film Festival Today, Hammer to Nail, Jon Shenk, Menashe, Menashe Lustig, oshua Z. Weinstein, Washington Jewish Film Festival

More AFI DOCS Pieces – Interview (“Strad Style”) + Review (“ACORN and the Firestorm) – and Criterion Blu-ray (“Cameraperson”) @hammertonail & Review of “Dunkirk” @filmfesttoday

Last week, Hammer to Nail published three more articles of mine: another review from the recent AFI DOCS festival, this time…

ACORN and the Firestorm, AFI DOCS, Blu-ray, Cameraperson, Criterion, Criterion Collection, Dunkirk, Hammer to Nail, Stefan Avalos, Strad Style

“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” Offers a Mass of Unpleasant Absurdity

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Luc Besson, 2017) Based on a popular (in France) series of graphic…

Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Dane DeHaan, Luc Besson, Pierre Christin, Rihanna, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Another AFI DOCS Review (“STEP”) + Criterion Blu-ray (“45 Years”) @hammertonail & Review of “A Ghost Story” @filmfesttoday

Over the past week, Hammer to Nail has published two more articles of mine: another review from the recent AFI DOCS…

45 Years, A Ghost Story, Amanda Lipitz, Andrew Haigh, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Collection, David Lowery, Film Festival Today, Hammer to Nail, STEP

Apocalypse Ape: In “War for the Planet of the Apes,” We Continue to Root for Our Own Destruction

War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2017) Lest one be confused about the timeline of the current Planet…

Andy Serkis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Matt Reeves, Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes, Woody Harrelson

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