(Check out Don R. Lewis’s Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It movie review. The film is premiering on Friday, February 20th at NYC’s Film Forum. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Billy Preston is […]

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(Check out Brandon Wilson’s Merrily We Roll Along movie review, it opens Friday, November 5. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There are few words in all of filmdom that strike fear in the hearts of cinephiles […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Song Sung Blue movie review! It’s in theaters now! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The new film Song Sung Blue is based on the real-life story of Mike and Claire Sardina, whose tale […]

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(Check out HtN Editor Don R. Lewis’s You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine movie review, it’s rolling out across theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) For fans of the singer-songwriter genre, the last […]

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(The 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 26-October 13 via Film at Lincoln Center. Check outMatt Delman’s Sirāt movie review, fresh from the fest! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If ‘audible gasp’ were a movie, it […]

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(Check out Brandon Wilson’s Monk in Pieces movie review, it opened July 25 at NYC’s IFC Center before a nation wide roll-out. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) An artist like Meredith Monk is both a seductive lure […]

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(Check out Jonathan Marlows’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Although he hardly knew his biological father, Scottie Moorhead lived in Tim Buckley’s shadow. The […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s This is Spinal Tap movie review, it’s in theaters now celebrating it’s 41st birthday. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Born in 1947 to legendary comedian, actor, and filmmaker Carl Reiner (1922-2020), Rob […]

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(Check out Brandon Wilson’s Room to Move movie review, it’s coming soon from GoodCompany. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) How we feel about non-fiction filmmaking says a lot about what we really think about cinema. […]

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(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 Reed’s Billy Idol Should Be Dead movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN […]

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