(After creating a buzz at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, director Rashaad Ernesto Green’s Premature will be released in theaters and on video-on-demand on February 21, 2020 via IFC. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not […]

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In short, the just recently Oscar-nominated "The Edge of Democracy" is a powerful, if slightly overlong,

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Which makes for a mostly riveting documentary, gorgeously shot (and presented in the same aspect ratio as Alien’s original wide-screen anamorphic format), and guilty only of presenting too much information

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After watching this movie, however, one might wonder what kind of a human being would seek out a self-serving narcissistic sociopath like Cohn for a lawyer. Oh, wait …

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I spoke with director Rachel Lears on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, by phone to discuss her powerful new political documentary, Knock Down the House (which I reviewed at Sundance). The movie follows four political-novice women who ran for congressional office […]

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I met with director Alexandre O. Philippe at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, January 26, 2019, to discuss his documentary Memory: The Origins of Alien (which I also reviewed). The film dives into the rich history of the making […]

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As Wang digs deep into the past, she uncovers shocking secrets that many would prefer never be revealed. But here they are, and the result is a documentary both moving and profoundly horrifying

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A rousing, profoundly inspiring paean to grass-roots democratic movements, Rachel Lears' Knock Down the House profiles a number of underdog challengers – all of them women – to establishment figures in the 2018 midterm congressional and senatorial elections.

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