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January Movie Night: Sunshine [2007]

Settle in, turn your TV on to MAXIMUM BRIGHTNESS, and enjoy January's Movie Night! We're watching Sunshine, the 2007 Danny Boyle film, written by Alex Garland of recent Ex Machina and <...

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Episode 25: Raw and Uncut

In an act of open hostility towards the film industry's release schedule, instead of considering any of the bad movies of January, we are going back to the good movies of December. We're looking at the Safdie Brothers' Uncut Gems, Greta Gerwig's Little Women, and Sam Mendes' View Post

Exclusive Early January Announcement

 

Hey, gang!

Thanks for hanging out here in the club house with us.  As one of your many benefits, you'll know before anyone else what we're planning to record and release in January.  For this month's regular episode, we're taking on Uncut Gems, Little Women, and 1917....

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Episode 23: A Star War is Born

In the twenty-third episode of the podcast, we cover a modern pantheon of American auteurs; with Todd Haynes' Dark Waters, J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life. Come for the riveting reviews, stay for Phil's defense of T...

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December Movie Night: The Raid [2011]

'Tis the night before Christmas, and we're giving you what every naughty little boy and girl wants before opening gifts and spending time with loved ones: an episode devoted to the 2011 Welsh-Indonesian ...

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Exclusive Early December Announcement

Hey, gang!

Thanks for hanging out here in the club house with us.  As one of your many benefits, you'll know before anyone else what we're planning to record and release in December.  For this month's regular episode, we're taking on Star Wars, Dark Waters, and A Hidden Life. &nbs...

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December Movie Night is Almost Here!

Hey, gang,

We recorded our December movie night just last week.  This month, we're taking on 2011's The Raid!  Or is The Raid taking on us?  Tune in to find out.  This episode will be released very soon.  Thanks to Tiberius Gracchus for suggesting it!  Anything...

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Episode 22: The Return of the King [with David Parsons]

On our 22nd episode, we're joined by David Parsons from the Nostalgia Trap podcast. David helps us try to make some kind of sense of over 50 years of filmmaking from America's foremost cinematic figure, Martin Scorsese. We talk Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy View Post

New and very special public episode coming soon! Plus December movie night announcement

Gang,

Last night we sat down with David Parsons of the Nostalgia Trap podcast to discuss Martin Scorsese's *entire* filmography.

It was a killer episode, and we're very excited to share it with the world.  You get to hear about it first, so tell a friend.

Additionally, we'r...

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November Movie Night: Phantom of the Paradise [1974]

Movie Night is back in a big way with our deep dive into Brian De Palma's camp classic, 1974's Phantom of the Paradise. Rock 'n' roll with us into the depths of hell and the heights of neon fusc...

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Episode 21: Spilling Our Beans

If podcast episodes were years, this podcast would now have enough to legally drink. We're into Good Movie Season, and we're discussing Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse, Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, and Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory. We also discuss Taylor's quest to watch...

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November Movie Night is Coming !!

Gang,

We recorded our November episode last night on The Lighthouse, Parasite, and Pain and Glory.  It rocked and rolled.  In fact, I was so rocked, and I was so rolled, that I made Phil sit down and watch Brian de Palma's Phantom of the Paradise with me!  Will you watch this...

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November's Movies!

Hey, gang!

November's movies are out and decided on.  This month we tackle Parasite, The Lighthouse, and Pain and Glory.  What a stacked month!

Comment below with the questions and topics that you'd like to hear live on air, and stay tuned for more.

Thanks,

T

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The October episode is out!

We released the beast, folks.  Let us know what you think of the episode.

Thanks,

T

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Episode 20: Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right

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 fl...

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Update

Hey, Gang,

I'm traveling for a wedding this week, and I have a root canal when I get back, so recording this month is going to get a little... weird.  In the mean time, let's talk about movies here and wrangle up some suggestions for movie night.  What do you want to watch?

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October's Movies!

Hey, gang,

This month, we're watching and reviewing Joker, Monos, and Gemini Man.  What do you think?  Do you have any questions that you'd like us to address on air?  Let us know what kind of feedback you have.

Thank you,

T

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Hey, Gang!

Taylor here,

Due to technical difficulties, we released our September episode a little late.  With all of the extra time to catch these flix, we really hope you got to watch along in theaters and will enjoy the good, good content!  We talked Hustlers, Brittany Runs a Marathon, and...

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Episode 19: Making it Rain

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 ...

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September Movie Night, Phil's Pick: Blow Out [1981]

Brian De Palma's 1981 film Blow Out may have bombed at the box office, but the stylish and entertaining thriller can be appreciated now as a riveting treatment of how media, including film itsel...

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[BONUS] Movie Night: Fight Club (1999) [with Kaleb]

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 di...

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August Movie Night: Fight Club [1999]

Movie Night makes a triumphant return! We're back in the old clubhouse, but this time, we brought a freakin pal! His name is Kaleb and he lives in a strange, dubiously decorated city. We're talking David...

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Episode 18: Radegund's Revenge

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 previe...

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July Movie Night Pt. II: Underworld (2003)

Our second movie night episode for July covers the 2003 schlock-fest Underworld, which sees an eternal conflict between Werewolves and Vampires being settled the new-fashioned way: with guns, lo...

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Episode 17: Pink Lemonade

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.

Beco...

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July Movie Night Episode: Strange Days [1995]

Our poll-tying, first of two July Movie Night episodes is devoted to Kathryn Bigelow's 1995 thriller Strange Days. It's a wild, sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing, and always strange ...

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Episode 16: Wakanda Deferred [with Enzo and Eve of Unity & Struggle]

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 ...

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Episode 15: We Studied the Blade

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 o...

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Poll: June Movie Night Selection

We kicked it out to our patrons for suggestions for our June Movie Night, and we'll let you all make the final choice as well. We've got an interesting selection here. Ryan suggested Strange Days View Post

May Movie Night: The John Wick Trilogy [2014-2019]

Our movie night for May covers the John Wick trilogy, the Keanu Reeves-starring series of acclaimed action movies. Phil and Taylor go deep on what they love, what they hate, and what they find funny abou...

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