“Enjoy it those of you who are alive. The world is fantastic.” — (at the time) oldest person Maria Branyas Morera [via social media] A decade in the making—from July 2015 to July 2025—or a lifetime. Several lifetimes, admittedly! Individually and

The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) marked its 50th anniversary last year and now is back again, running September 10-20, with 293 films (shorts and features) in its official slate. As always, Hammer to Nail will offer coverage of

In 1989, Julie Thayer traveled to the Swiss Alps looking for something few people would willingly seek: the destruction of her own ego. There, she joined U.G. Krishnamurti, the radical Indian anti-guru who rejected virtually every convention associated with spiritual

“Enjoy it those of you who are alive. The world is fantastic.” — (at the time) oldest person Maria Branyas Morera [via social media] A decade in the making—from July 2015 to July 2025—or a lifetime. Several lifetimes, admittedly! Individually and

In 1989, Julie Thayer traveled to the Swiss Alps looking for something few people would willingly seek: the destruction of her own ego. There, she joined U.G. Krishnamurti, the radical Indian anti-guru who rejected virtually every convention associated with spiritual

Mas Bouzidi's Concessions is a love letter to movie theaters wrapped in the melancholy of their disappearance. Shot entirely on 16mm at the Lafayette Theater in upstate New York, the film chronicles the final day at the closing Royal Alamo

Winner of the Best Director award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, directing duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi's (aka Los Javis) La Bola Negra is an epic like no other. Set in the directors' native Spain, it follows the

Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days) returned to Cannes this year with his newest intense drama, and left with his second Palme d'Or. Set in a Norwegian coastal town, Fjord stars Sebastian Stan and Renate

One of the biggest cinematic gems this year is a conspiracy thriller of sorts that dabbles in some form of time travel. Writer-directors Kevin Walker and Jack Auen's Chronovisor follows a French academic (played by real-life professor Anne-Laure Sellier) holed