Latest Posts

HOME VIDEO PICKS

Pick of the Week

Spring Breakers (Lionsgate) — Harmony Korine’s first multiplex mini-breakout is a pop-cultural fire-starter that will hopefully enable him to keep working on a larger-than-smaller scale in the future. As for Spring Breakers, it makes for an at-times thrilling and all-times complicated viewing experience, which you must see for yourself if you haven’t already. Read my own complicated HTN review. Available on DVD + Digital UltraViolet, Blu-ray + Digital UltraViolet, and at Amazon Instant.

Recommended

Boy (Kino Lorber) — Set in New Zealand in 1984, Taika Waititi’s coming-of-age comic drama has a lot going for it. Available on DVD and Blu-ray.

New/Old to DVD/Blu-ray

The Life of Oharu (Criterion) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray.

The Jerk (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.

Sixteen Candles (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.

The Breakfast Club (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.

Smokey and The Bandit (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.

The Sting (Universal) — Available on Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Universal) — Available on DVD.

Have Not Seen Yet But Really/Kinda/Sorta/Maybe Wanna

The Gatekeepers (Sony) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Portlandia: Season 3 (Video Services Corp.) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Shun Li and the Poet (Film Movement) — Available on DVD.

The Host (Universal) — Available on DVD, Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet, and at Amazon Instant.

Admission (Universal) — Available on DVD, Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet, and at Amazon Instant.

Dead Man Down (Sony) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray/DVD + UltraViolet.

Wild Card of the Week

Tyler Perry’s Temptation (Lionsgate) — Available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Liked it? Take a second to support Hammer to Nail on Patreon!
Become a patron at Patreon!

Michael Tully is an award-winning writer/director whose films have garnered widespread critical acclaim, his projects having premiered at some of the most renowned film festivals across the globe. He is also the former (and founding) editor of this site. In 2006, Michael's first feature, COCAINE ANGEL, chronicling a tragic week in the life of a young drug addict, world premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film immediately solidified the director as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s "25 New Faces of Independent Film,” a reputation that was reinforced a year later when his follow-up feature, SILVER JEW, a documentary capturing the late David Berman's rare musical performances in Tel Aviv, world-premiered at SXSW and landed distribution with cult indie-music label Drag City. In 2011, Michael wrote, directed, and starred in his third feature, SEPTIEN, which debuted at the 27th annual Sundance Film Festival before being acquired by IFC Films' Sundance Selects banner. A few years later, in 2014, Michael returned to Sundance with the world premiere of his fourth feature, PING PONG SUMMER, an ‘80s set coming-of-age tale that was quickly picked up for theatrical distribution by Gravitas Ventures. In 2018, Michael wrote and directed the dread-inducing genre film DON'T LEAVE HOME, which has been described as "Get Out with Catholic guilt in the Irish countryside" (IndieWire). The film premiered at SXSW and was subsequently acquired by Cranked Up Films and Shudder.

Post a Comment

Website branding logosWebsite branding logos