(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 Chris Reeds’s Wild Wild East movie review from the fest! Seen it? […]

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(Check out Anders Ljung’s Hope movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is a moment somewhere within the relentless carnage of Na Hong jin’s Hope when the human body seems to […]

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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 Chris Reed’s Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! movie review. Seen it? Join the […]

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(The 2026 Venice Film Festival runs 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 Furies movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Colony review; it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In the video game and TV series The Last of Us, humans are infected by the Cordyceps fungus and thereby become the […]

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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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(We here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, “The Curbside Criterion” continues […]

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Mainstream feature animation has become an airless thing. Every frame is locked down, every surface polished, every emotional beat pre-chewed for the audience. Sébastien Laudenbach works in the opposite direction. His characters seem to have just been drawn, his colors […]

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