(The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 5-16, and as always, we have many boots on the ground. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s’s A Desert movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) What lurks beneath the barren, yet […]

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Lodge Kerrigan, is a multi-faceted artist in both television and film. He entered the industry with his critically acclaimed, 1993 debut, Clean Shaven. For the next 5 years, Kerrigan would serve as a cinematographer and assistant camera on a few […]

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(The runs March 11-20 in glorious Austin, Texas. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review’s of ten shorts films at South by Southwest. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) While features tend to be what is looked at by […]

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I love how much is said in this film with almost no dialogue. A powerfully visual presentation of themes of loss, nostalgia and manhood, Zhao's movie tells its story in terse fragments intercut with long, slow passages that revel in the wonder of the natural landscapes and the quiet moments between human and beast.

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Fortunately, the movie ends on a higher note, as we see what has become of Daisy.

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Baltimore is my hometown, so sure, that matters to me, but Baltimore is not unique. So many of our cities need better options. Let Charm City lead the way, not in homicides, but in ideas for solutions.

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(The 2020 Sundance Film Festival runs January 23-February 2 in and around Park City Utah. Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground at the fest and guarantee more coverage thank any other site out there. Like what you see here on Hammer […]

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As the headline clearly states, ’tis that time of year for the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance sets the stage for the festival season to come and, sometimes it sets the bar for future award nominated and winning films. Hammer to […]

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The 2019 New York Film Festival began with a bang — the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s feverishly anticipated The Irishman. And The Irishman itself ended with a whimper, or something close to it: This long (three and a half […]

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