(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Anchors Aweigh  movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the […]

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(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Trash Mountain movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation […]

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(The 2026 Venice Film Festival ran September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like M.J. O’Toole’s The Spiral movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on […]

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(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s A Long Winter movie review from the fest! Seen it? Join the […]

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(The 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival runs July 30 through August 2 in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, TX. Check out Don Lewis’s The Sun Never Sets movie review, it’s in theaters August 28 from the Independent Film Company. […]

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(The Vashon Island Film Festival runs August 13–16 for its fifth year. Check out Alan Motley’s Tony movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) I absolutely loved Tony, so let me just […]

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(Check out  Anders Ljung’s I Want Your Sex movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) After more than a decade away from feature filmmaking, Gregg Araki finally came home to Sundance this […]

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Hirokazu Kore-eda has spent his career making quiet, humane films about families, and he won the Palme d’Or for one of them, Shoplifters, in 2018. Sheep in the Box, his seventeenth feature, keeps its attention on parents and children but […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Romeria movie review, it’s in theaters now via Janus Films. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In her phenomenal 2017 feature debut, Summer 1993, Spanish director Carla Simón brought challenging moments from her […]

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(The 2026 DC/DOX Documentary Film Festival ran June 11-14. Check out Chris Reed’s Bucks Harbor movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Longtime photographer Pete Muller marks his feature-film debut with the […]

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