I met with director Jessica Oreck at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, on Sunday, March 10, to discuss her newest film, the narrative feature One Man Dies a Million Times (which I also reviewed). A haunting dramatization of the Siege […]

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In 2019, writer-director Jessica Oreck premiered her Tarkovsky-Esque black-and-white film One Man Dies A Million Times at SXSW. Shot by the great indie cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Good Time), the film centers on a young couple (Alyssa Lozovskaya and Maksim […]

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(After its premiere at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, filmmaker Brandon Vedder’s doc debut Strange Negotiations is available now on VOD Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) […]

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Writer/director Josephine Mackerras, making her feature debut, explores issues of female agency and sexual power in an innovative way, taking what could be sordid and giving it a mostly positive slant, or at least one where the actions taken are normalized as a reasonable response to circumstances.

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Yes, Nothing Stays the Same: the Story of the Saxon Pub is very much a love-letter to the Saxon Pub and, as such, often comes off like a Saxon Pub infomercial. Yet within this slick, loving doc lie a million little stories whose parts equal a greater whole.

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On Monday, March 11, 2019, at SXSW, I interviewed director Bob Byington to discuss his newest feature, Frances Ferguson (which I also reviewed). Joining us for the conversation were lead actress Kaley Wheless and supporting player David Krumholtz. The movie […]

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Porno is a promising feature debut from director Keola Racela and his college collaborators, writers Matt Black and Laurence Vannicelli.

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I met with director Chelsea Hernandez on Sunday, March 10, at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, with my Fog of Truth podcast colleague Bart Weiss joining me for the conversation. We discussed her documentary Building the American Dream (which I […]

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As the title implies, there are no good guys, only victims and victimizers. May the best villain win.

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