(Check out Savina Petkova’s Sheep in the Box movie review. The film just had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The newest film by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda may be […]

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(The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival runs May 7-17th in and around Seattle. Check out Jessica Baxter’s Again Again movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) For their feature debut, co-directors Heather Ballish and […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s 40 Acres movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Director R.T. Thorne’s feature debut, 40 Acres, has a lot going for it, most notably the lead performance […]

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(The 2024 New York Film Festival (NYFF) runs September 27-October 14. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s The Shrouds movie review from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) No other mind exists in cinema like David Cronenberg’s. […]

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(HtN fave Zach Clark is back with his wonderfully weird yet touching alien invasion film The Becomers. The film is out now on VOD via Darkstar Pictures. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Writer/director Zach Clark (Little […]

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The 2024 Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 10, and as usual there are 15 nominated short films across three categories: animation, documentary, and live action. As I do every year for Hammer to Nail, I watch all of […]

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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Love Me. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Sam & Andy Zuchero debuted at Sundance 2024 with Love Me, starring Kristen Stewart and […]

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2023 has been the year everything got back to normal. Hahahha….oh man, had you there! As many people paying the slightest bit of attention know, “things” may never be “back to normal” again. But, let’s steer away from the big […]

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The major box-office successes of the year notwithstanding (we see you, “Barbenheimer”), 2023 saw many outstanding independent films come out to rival (or surpass) the quality of big-studio releases. Fortunately, in this 21st-century of ours, there are many theatrical distributors […]

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(Check out Sammy Levine’s movie review for Flux Gourmet, streaming now exclusively on Shudder.  Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In Flux Gourmet, Peter Strickland has presented us with yet another surreal, fetishistic and fully realized […]

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