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March 19, 2019
SXSW2019 @hammertonail Coverage, Part 1 + Festival Overview at @filmfesttoday
My coverage of the 2019 SXSW Film Festival begins with 5 reviews and 1 interview at Hammer to Nail plus an overview piece at Film Festival Today: Film Festival Today overview Alice review Building the American Dream review Pahokee review Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins review Vision Portraits interview (pictured above) Vision Portraits review
March 15, 2019
“Reel Talk” – with Chris Reed and Mae Abdulbaki – on the 2019 Oscars, “The Wedding Guest” and “Captain Marvel”
Welcome to the fourth episode of the 2018-2019 season of Dragon Digital Media‘s Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed. My guest this time was Mae Abdulbaki, film critic at Movies with Mae, TV editor at The Young Folks, member of the Alliance of Women in Film Journalism, and, like me, a member of the Washington Area Film Critics … Continue reading “Reel Talk” – with Chris Reed and Mae Abdulbaki – on the 2019 Oscars, “The Wedding Guest” and “Captain Marvel”
March 13, 2019
@fogoftruth Episode 506: SXSW 2019 Reviews/Interviews of/with PAHOKEE and RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS
For SXSW we discuss two of the films playing this year, Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins and Pahokee, and Bart and Chris interview the filmmakers of each while in Austin, Texas. To see the videos that accompany our interviews, please go to our “video extras” page. As always, you can find … Continue reading @fogoftruth Episode 506: SXSW 2019 Reviews/Interviews of/with PAHOKEE and RAISE HELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS
March 7, 2019
Coverage of 2019 Sundance Film Festival at @hammertonail, Part 3 + Review of UNITED SKATES
My Hammer to Nail coverage of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival continues with four more reviews and one interview: Interview with editor/producer/writer Emelie Mahdavian of Midnight Traveler (pictured above) Review of Knock Down the House Review of Memory: The Origins of Alien Review of One Child Nation Review of Where’s My Roy Cohn? In addition, here is my review of United Skates! Enjoy!
“Captain Marvel” Is Everything a Superhero Film Should Be
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 … Continue reading “Captain Marvel” Is Everything a Superhero Film Should Be
4 Reviews + 1 Interview @filmfesttoday: APOLLO 11, BIRDS OF PASSAGE, TIME FOR ILHAN, TRANSIT and THE WEDDING GUEST
In the past week, Film Festival Today published 4 reviews of mine plus 1 interview: Apollo 11 interview Birds of Passage review Time for Ilhan review Transit review The Wedding Guest review Enjoy!
March 6, 2019
@fogoftruth Episode 505: HILLBILLY and INGRID
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.
February 21, 2019
My @hammertonail Reviews of All 15 Oscar-Nominated Shorts
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: Animated Shorts Documentary Shorts Live-Action Shorts Enjoy!
“Roughly Speaking” on the 2019 Oscars
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!
February 20, 2019
@fogoftruth Episode 503: 2019 Oscar-Nominated Documentaries and THE SILENCE OF OTHERS
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: Black Sheep / 2018 (Director: … Continue reading @fogoftruth Episode 503: 2019 Oscar-Nominated Documentaries and THE SILENCE OF OTHERS
