I recently spoke with director Kelly Reichardt by phone about her new film First Cow, which premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival (our Matt Delman reviewed it following the subsequent New York Film Festival) and is now finally rolling

(Tyler Chandler’s directorial debut, Dosed has started a slow roll-out in NY and L.A. It will be expanding over the following weeks. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep

(Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho's is making the rounds in theaters via Kino Lorber. You can watch now at this link!) With all the recent hoopla over The Hunt, a film where wealthy liberals apparently chase and kill poorer conservatives

(After making it's debut at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, Marc Meyers' Human Capital is available now on VOD via DirecTV Cinema. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep

(Director Cody Stokes makes his feature film debut with The Ghost Who Walks. The film is streaming now on Amazon Prime. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Longtime cinematographer

Mike S. Ryan's very biased 25 fave low budget American Indies of the ‘10 Decade. 1. Moonlight-Barry Jenkins 2. Meek’s Cutoff/Certain Woman- Kelly Reichardt 3. The Rider-Chloe Zhao 4. The Fits- Anna Rose Holmer 5. It Felt Like Love- Eliza Hittman 6. The Florida Project/Tangerine- Sean

In short, the just recently Oscar-nominated "The Edge of Democracy" is a powerful, if slightly overlong,

(AFI DOCS 2019 runs June 19-23 in Washington, DC. Lead Critic Chris Reed will offer us some of his usual coverage! Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) In 2014,

Quaid is fine playing the straight man, but all eyes are on Erskine’s Alice, who wears her heart on her sleeve. This is the type of breakout performance sought out at film festivals.