(The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 5-16, and as always, we have many boots on the ground. Check out Chris Reed’s All That We Love movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Loving animals inevitably leads […]

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Animator and 3D artist Julian Glander tackles contemporary slackerism in the age of capitalism in his fantastical feature debut, Boys Go To Jupiter. A standout at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, it follows a teenager in suburban Florida trying to make […]

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(The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 5-16, and as always, we have many boots on the ground. Check out Chris Reed’s Emergent City movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) All politics is local. Big issues in […]

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“You feel better now. But tomorrow you’re gonna feel bad again.” Beloved microbudget indie filmmaker Joel Potrykus (Relaxer; The Alchemist Cookbook) is back with a multihyphenate of roles in his newest dark slacker comedy, Vulcanizadora. Aside from serving as editor-writer-director, […]

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Never count out Jim Cummings. The multi-hyphenate talent who broke out in 2016 with his SXSW winner Thunder Road knows how to make a film hilarious, gripping, and emotional in so many unexpected ways. After following up his feature debut […]

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Democracy is often filled with chaos, different sides demanding to be heard and those with power and money reluctant to listen. In Emergent City (which I reviewed out of the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival) directors Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur […]

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Director Nesa Azimi, in her debut feature-length documentary, Driver, takes us into the cab of a truck driven by one Desiree Wood. She’s the founder of REAL Women in Trucking (RWIT), an advocacy group for her fellow female truck drivers […]

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In Witches, her latest documentary, director Elizabeth Sankey (Romantic Comedy) brings us into a close examination of her recent traumatic experience as a new mother, during which time she suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety. It’s a very personal movie, […]

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(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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(The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 5-16, and as always, we have many boots on the ground. Check out Chris Reed’s Driver movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) How often do we think about the way […]

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