One of the most promising indies of the year, With Love and a Major Organ, may be a movie to tug on your heartstrings this spring. Directed by Kim Albright with a script by Julia Lederer, it is a romantic […]

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People sure love a good found-footage horror film! The premise for Late Night With the Devil is simple, but just as nail-biting and terrifying. A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms. […]

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One of the best indie gems to look out for this year is Argentinian writer-director Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s Chronicles of a Wandering Saint. This supernatural comedy premiered at SXSW 2023 where it won the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award, and has […]

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(Austin Texas’ South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival ran March 10-19. Stay tuned to Hammer to Nail for our usual great coverage like this movie review of Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd […]

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One little film that made big waves at Sundance this year was Babak Jalali’s black-and-white dramedy, Fremont. The Jarmuschian tale stars Afghan refugee Anaita Wali Zada, in her first role, as a former U.S. Army translator making her way in […]

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One of the most acclaimed films to hit the festival circuit in the last few years is Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s feature debut, War Pony. The film, set in the Oglala Lakota nation, had its world premiere at the […]

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One of the highlights of this year’s SXSW is arriving next month. Ted Geoghegan’s supernatural horror Brooklyn 45 stars Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, and Kristina Klebe as military veterans who unexpectedly find themselves […]

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Any New Yorkers have plans this summer? How about chilling under the sun to some of this year’s hot new indie films? Rooftop Films has just announced its lineup for its 2023 Summer Series, which will take place throughout NYC […]

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Writer-director Bishal Dutta’s It Lives Inside unexpectedly shook the audience at SXSW to its core this year. His feature film debut takes the tropes surrounding possession/curse horror and implements Indian folklore to create a new terrifying take on the demonic. […]

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After a successful premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Tracy Droz Tragos’ documentary Plan C has been traveling the festival circuit. Our lead critic Chris Reed reviewed this important film and interviewed Droz Tragos at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival. […]

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