This holiday season, the busy elves here at Hammer & Camera industries have a special treat for all the good listeners out there. Here we present a nearly unprecedented peak behind the velvet curtain that is our patreon content. Fresh from the vault: last month's Movie Night episode, featuring our good friend and loyal Film Warrior Drew, analyzing Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, the latest opus from Sacha Baron Cohen.
Film Warriors! You've waited long enough for your October Movie Night episode, but this one won't disappoint. We invited our friend Drew, also a listener and Patron of the show, to the pod to discuss the beloved Kazakh journalist Borat and his appearances on the silver screen, which were added to most recently by Borat Subsequent Moviefi...
2020-11-08 22:52:55 +0000 UTC View PostIn the thirty-seventh episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast, we provide crucial coverage of the most important race of our lifetimes... the race to get that coveted 5-star rating from America's arbiters of film taste: Hammer & Camera! On this episode, we review Spike Lee's David Byrne's American Utopia, Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks, and Pietro Marcello's Martin Eden. Along the way, we talk about th...
2020-11-03 19:03:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Tomorrow night at 7pm Central, we are having a watch party in our Discord channel of the 1989 body horror bonanza SOCIETY. A world where the rich prey on the poor seems almost too twisted to be imagined, but some dark soul dreamed it up to spook us. Join us as we take this wild ride.
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2020-10-31 01:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Movie Night episode for the month of September is here! We're talking Carl Franklin's 1995 neo-noir Devil in a Blue Dress, with an early star turn from Denzel Washington. Watch the movie, then dive into the episode with us... We'd love to hear what you think!
2020-10-08 23:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostIn the thirty-sixth episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast, we review the Dark Knight himself-- Christopher Nolan-- 's Tenet, the return of Bill and Ted, and Charlie Kaufman at his most Kaufman-esque in I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Along the way we ask the important questions, like "did David Lynch's powerful consciousness cause the imminent death of President Donald Trump?"
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2020-10-04 21:33:54 +0000 UTC View Post
For September's Movie Night episode, available as always exclusively to our $5 patrons, we will be watching Carl Franklin's 1995 noir, Devil in a Blue Dress, another star turn for the great Denzel Washington. This is something that has been on both Phil and Taylor's watch list for some time, and ranks as one of NBA legend and noted ...
2020-10-03 18:52:55 +0000 UTC View Post
We are rolling out a new benefit for our most loyal and valued $5 patrons: Hammer & Camera logo stickers with a black and white "cinematic" look! This old-fashioned design symbolizes the pioneering Film Warriors who are our first patrons... we salute you! There are about ~45 of these and they will go to current $5 patrons and future $5 patrons as long as supplies last, at which point they will never be produced again. It's easy t...
2020-09-26 18:33:24 +0000 UTC View PostIn the 35th episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast, we review Amy Seimetz' She Dies Tomorrow, Michael Almereyda's Tesla, and Alejandro Jodorowsky's Psychomagic, a Healing Art. Along the way we talk about how we're dealing with the situation of a scenario that we're all going through in this moment in regards to the coronavirus COVID pandemic event.
2020-09-11 18:46:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Inspired by our experience last month with the Wachowski's Bound, we dig into another under-appreciated entry in their filmography: 2008's kitsch extravaganza and anime adaptation Speed Racer. Just what does it mean to be a racer? What should you do when there's weak shit on your track? Will this podcast become exclusively ...
2020-09-05 20:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe freaking coronavirus and police riots be damned, we bring you the thirty-fourth episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast. We review our films of July: Hirokazu Kore-eda's The Truth, the Ross Brothers' Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, and Kelly Reichardt's First Cow. Along the way, we talk about watching Y Tú Mamá También as horny teens, and Shane Carruth's vicious heel turn.
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2020-08-02 20:18:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Movie Night Episode for the month of July is up! As announced, we're watching the Wachowski's Bound (1996), a noir/heist/erotic thriller that tells the story of two lesbian gangsters and their fight for liberation. We found so many interesting things to talk about, so don't be a doofus, turn on the damn TV and watch this thing!&nbs...
2020-07-23 00:36:39 +0000 UTC View PostIn the 33rd episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast, producer Josh joins us inside the booth to discuss the documentary Capital in the 21st Century, based on the book by French economist Thomas Piketty. We get the bottom of how and why this film seems so at odds with itself, and what happens when you pursue "neutrality" when documenting the end of the world.
Josh is a filmmaker and podcaster in his own right in addition to ...
2020-07-14 18:42:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Film Warriors, we will have a new Patreon-exclusive Movie Night episode for you very soon, this time covering the 1996 Wachowski Sisters production Bound. A film rather unfortunately described by Gene Siskel when it was released as "if the Marx brothers had great bodies," this saga about a desperate heist that coincides with a lesbi...
2020-07-12 22:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe Thirty-Second episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast is here. We're talking Spike Lee's Vietnam saga Da 5 Bloods, Josephine Decker's biopic-cum-psychodrama Shirley, and Abel Ferrara's intimate portrait of Tommaso. Along the way we discuss David Lynch's pants-repairing technique, Hannibal, and our plan to ride Ferraraposting to the top.
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2020-07-01 18:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Film Warriors! It's been a long, long month, full of social upheaval, continued public health crises, and the continuing physical and mental exhaustion of quarantine. However, we must continue to challenge ourselves to learn more and more every day, if for no other reason than to stave off mental complacency.
You may have noticed...
2020-06-25 23:53:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey Film Warriors. Just wanted to remind you all to join our Discord channel. You can do so by clicking this link. We will be using this to chat, host our watch parties, discuss options for Movie Night episodes, and maybe even play video games together (???).
If you haven't used Discord before, it's pretty painless. You can use it in your web browser if yo...
2020-06-11 18:44:47 +0000 UTC View PostIn the 31st episode of our show, we're still trapped in the miasma of coronavirus-induced cinema deprivation. But, the culture industry churns on, and has turned out three new pictures over video-on-demand for us to talk about. Quentin Dupieux's Deerskin, Josh Trank's Capone, and Dan Sallitt's Fourteen are a balanced mix of genre, tone, and quality, and we illuminate them as only we can.
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2020-06-05 18:13:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello Film Warriors! We were wondering, what would be the best way to connect with you all through our shared love of cinema in this trying time...? Brain blast! It's the perfect time for a collaborative viewing of Troma Entertainment's 1987 classic Surf Nazi's Must Die!
The title is a fairly succinct description of what...
2020-05-16 23:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 30 of the Hammer & Camera podcast finds our dynamic duo deep in the doldrums of corona quarantine. Luckily, there are three new releases we can talk about, beamed over the internet through streaming services, which we love now, I guess. First is British balladeer of the working class Ken Loach's new flick Sorry We Missed You, then Eliza Hittman (Missman?)'s paean to abortion Never Rarely Sometimes Always...
2020-05-09 17:48:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Movie Night for April is here! We're talking Southland Tales, the sprawling, loony epic from Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly. Commercially and critically damned on its release, perhaps this film was simply so futuristic, it could only be appreciated in the future. We bring you the verdict in our this manic episode.
W...
2020-05-01 02:16:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Kelly's follow up to Donnie Darko (2001) is an absurd, fanciful, ambitious, and wildly uneven work that was quickly passed over upon its release in 2006, never reaching the cult status of its predecessor. However, with its oddly prescient themes of police violence, endless war, mass surveillance, and mass media, Southlan...
2020-04-29 22:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostOur twenty-ninth episode finds the boys deep in our quarantine bunkers, reminiscing about the films of early March and the days of going to theaters. Before everything changed, we saw Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Emma, and Bacurau. Join us in chanting these names as we prepare to rebuild cinema on the other side, based on the oral tradition of what we've seen in the last surviving record of film; Hammer &...
2020-04-03 18:44:12 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, our Movie Night episode for March is an oh-so-topical selection from the oeuvre of Bong Joon-ho of recent Parasite fame, monster mash The Host, of 2006. Watch the film and then listen to our commentary and interpretations, we know you have time. We discuss Bong's approach to cinema, depictions of and metaphors...
2020-03-27 00:52:05 +0000 UTC View Post
If you are a human being and exist in this world, you probably saw 2019 runaway crossover hit Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho of South Korea. If you liked the film, did you know that Bong has been putting out solid work for decades and has a rich filmography for you to explore? From the haunting Memories of Murder 2020-03-22 18:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The words of William Shakespeare... what more can be said about them? They're good, that's for sure. Can they be made better by adding guns and army guys? We find out in the latest Movie Night episode, tackling Ralph Fiennes' 2011 adaptation of the goddamned Bard's Coriolanus. It re-contextualizes the work from Ancient Rome to a mod...
2020-03-14 21:57:44 +0000 UTC View PostOur movie night episode will be released very soon! We're watching Ralph Fiennes' 2011 adaptation of the damn bard's Coriolanus, and talking about the sometimes wonderful, always strange effort of translating the Roman epic into the world of paramilitaries, cable news networks, and ... barbers chairs. Stay tuned!
2020-03-10 01:24:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe twenty-eighth episode of the Hammer & Camera podcast sees us deep in the doldrums of February, and doing our best to keep our spirits up. On the slate are Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus' ill-advised remake Downhill, the crowdsourced design of Sonic the Hedgehog, and the #MeToo document The Assistant. Along the way, we talk about Florence Pugh getting typecast, product placement, and what to do...
2020-03-01 21:37:27 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 27 sees the Hammer & Camera crew tackling the work of longtime loadstone David Lynch for the first time. Specifically, we're talking 2017's Twin Peaks: The Return, and we're joined by author, professor, and fellow Lynchian, Dr. Todd McGowan. We talk about what's special about Lynch and his approach to cinema, what's great about Twin Peaks, whether or not The Return is "cinema," and delve deep in...
2020-02-23 17:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostFascism... What is it? And more importantly, is it in movies? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in our twenty-sixth episode, which features Abdul, Laura, and Evan from the Kino Lefter podcast. We talk Life is Beautiful, JoJo Rabbit, Dragged Across Concrete, and Starship Troopers as representations and depictions of fascist movements, and inquire about their function and the ...
2020-02-01 22:45:29 +0000 UTC View Post
