Hammer & Camera

The twentieth episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast is here, and it's packed with juicy morsels. Hear us debate the finer points of Todd Phillips' Joker, wax psychoanalytic over Alejandro Landes' Monos, and puzzle over the mostly entertaining, sometimes maddening Ang Lee flick Gemini Man. To round it out, we discuss the public critiques of Marvel movies made by Scorsese.

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The Hammer & Camera podcast is finally back with the films of September. On the slate is the crowd-pleasing Hustlers, the lighthearted dramedy Brittany Runs a Marathon, and the Brad Pitt-starring, stellar-sprawling space epic Ad Astra. We also talk about the movies we've been seeing together, lash out against the continued villainy of Disney, and speak truth to power against the orthodoxy of The Princess Diaries.

For the very first time we are giving our regular listeners a peek behind the velvet curtain of Movie Night, our monthly premium, exclusive episodes that until now have only been listened to by our loyal Patreon patrons. However, we knew we had to give everyone a chance to hear our buddy Kaleb discuss the seminal film Fight Club with us. This episode will have you thinking "...okay, where is my mind?"

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We've made it through a long summer month to episode 18, and this one is a doozy. We're talking The Farewell, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, and spend the better part of an hour discussing the latest Tarantino flick, Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood. We also briefly preview two of the movies we're most excited about: Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life, and Greta Gerwig's Little Women. Along with all the usual goofs and gags you've come to expect/dread from the Boys.

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In the seventeenth episode, we review Ari Aster's Midsommar, Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails' The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and Riley Stearns' The Art of Self-Defense. We also gab about bad Twitter opinions and why it's good for filmmakers to be ignorant.

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In the sixteenth episode of the podcast, we're joined by Enzo and Eve of the Marxist "propaganda circle" Unity & Struggle to discuss their article, Black on Both Sides: Grappling with BLM in Movies, and to review the past year of Black cinema. Among the films discussed are Black Panther, Blackkklansman, Sorry to Bother You, Blindspotting, and Us.

Read Enzo and Eve's article here: http://www.unityandstruggle.org/2019/05/black-on-both-sides-grappling-with-blm-in-movies/

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In the fifteenth episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast, we review the movies of June: Olivia Wilde's directorial debut Booksmart, "post-punk auteur" Olivier Assayas' latest Non-Fiction, and the legend Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die. In addition, we mourn the end of the X-Men movies, the only good superhero type movies.

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In the quatorzième episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast, the communist are storming the Normandy Beach of Cinema, aka the Cannes Film Festival. Reporting from the front is T.W. Stechnij, an American ex-pat, sometimes-writer and film industry employee who attended the Festival for a few days this year. We discuss: the sections and competitions of Cannes, their exclusive/capitalist nature vs. their social value, "gatekeepers," and T.W.'s picks for the most interesting movies in the fest; including Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov, The Halt by Lav Diaz, Parasite by Bong Joon-ho, and, most controversially, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo by Abdellatif Kechiche.

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In our bakers-dozenth episode, we're joined by Matt Christman of the Chapo Trap House media conglomerate in analyzing, hating on, nitpicking, mocking, and mourning the near-decade-spanning HBO television series Game of Thrones. We talk Khaleesi, the Starks, the freaking Dothraki and Unsullied, all the fan favorites. We also get cynical about the future of the book series, the promise of innumerable spin-off shows, and, for good measure, the doomed Eldritch Sonic.

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Our dozenth episode sees us traverse the cosmos in Claire Denis' High Life and the Marvel's Avengers: Endgame, along with the dingiest green rooms in america in Alex Ross Perry's rock 'n' roll show Her Smell. We also talk Barry, the French, Representation, and rage, rage, rage against the Marvel Machine.

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