Latest Reviews
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A Conversation with Fawzia Mirza (THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS)
Filmmaker Fawzia Mirza’s feature directorial debut, The Queen of My Dreams (which I reviewed back at SXSW 2024), opens June 20, 2025, after a long and successful festival run. A charming meditation on identity and culture—queer, Pakistani, and Muslim—the film
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A Conversation with Kathleen Chalfant & Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
Familiar Touch represents a unique entry in cinema's exploration of aging and dementia, offering a perspective rarely seen on screen: that of the person living with the condition rather than the family members watching from the sidelines. Director Sarah Friedland's
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BILLY IDOL SHOULD BE DEAD
(The Tribeca Festival ran June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out Chris Reeds’s Billy Idol Should Be Dead movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN
Interviews
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A Conversation with Fawzia Mirza (THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS)
Filmmaker Fawzia Mirza’s feature directorial debut, The Queen of My Dreams (which I reviewed back at SXSW 2024), opens June 20, 2025, after a long and successful festival run. A charming meditation on identity and culture—queer, Pakistani, and Muslim—the film
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A Conversation with Kathleen Chalfant & Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
Familiar Touch represents a unique entry in cinema's exploration of aging and dementia, offering a perspective rarely seen on screen: that of the person living with the condition rather than the family members watching from the sidelines. Director Sarah Friedland's
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A Conversation with Zippy Kimundu & Heather Courtney (WIDOW CHAMPION)
Out of Kenya’s population of 53 million, 8 million are widows. Many face not just the pain of loss, but the added trauma of being pushed out of their homes, denied their land, and labeled with cruel names: “witch,” “murderer,”
Trailers
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EDDINGTON Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal Face Off in Ari Aster’s Pandemic Paranoia Western
After working together on the polarizing, yet mindblowing Beau Is Afraid, Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix are back together for the former's fourth feature. Eddington, fresh off its world premiere at Cannes, is a Western set in 2020 during the
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LURKER Trailer: Théodore Pellerin Becomes Obsessed With Pop Star Archie Madekwe in Sundance Breakout
One of the most buzzed-about and stunning movies of this year's Sundance Film Festival was writer-director Alex Russell's Lurker. Russell, who was a writer on the Emmy-winning shows The Bear and Beef, makes his feature directorial debut with this look
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FAMILIAR TOUCH Trailer: Kathleen Chalfant Stars In Sarah Friedland’s Compassionate Feature Debut
As we get older and our memories shift, how can we live in the present? First-time writer-director Sarah Friedland addresses this question in her gentle and moving feature debut, Familiar Touch. The drama stars Kathleen Chalfant as Ruth, a retired
In Theatres
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A Conversation with Fawzia Mirza (THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS)
Filmmaker Fawzia Mirza’s feature directorial debut, The Queen of My Dreams (which I reviewed back at SXSW 2024), opens June 20, 2025, after a long and successful festival run. A charming meditation on identity and culture—queer, Pakistani, and Muslim—the film
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A Conversation with Kathleen Chalfant & Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
Familiar Touch represents a unique entry in cinema's exploration of aging and dementia, offering a perspective rarely seen on screen: that of the person living with the condition rather than the family members watching from the sidelines. Director Sarah Friedland's
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I DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU
(Check out Jessica Baxter's I Don't Understand You movie review. It’s in theaters now via Vertical Entertainment. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Watching I Don’t Understand You, the new semi-autobiographical comedy/thriller co-written and directed by real-life married
Watch at Home
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A Conversation with Mickey Keating (INVADER)
Invader may not be for you. Director Mickey Keating has made a film that shows you what it is immediately and if you need to walk out after five minutes he’s okay with that. He has given you permission. But
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TURN ME ON
(Check out Chris Reed’s Turn Me On movie review. Director Michael Tyburski is a former HtN Short Film Contest winner and the film is now available to stream on Apple TV, Amazon and Fandango at Home. Seen it? Join the
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SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON
(The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran September 5-15 and HtN has you covered once again. Check out Chris Reed’s Superboys of Malegaon movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Based on real-life events previously profiled in the
