As the Venice Film Festival is around the corner, one film that premiered at last year’s festival will finally get released next month. Writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night; The Bad Batch) returns with a […]

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It’s been a strange few years for the major North American film festivals. After starting off the year with a disappointing virtual Sundance, the 2022 SXSW film festival eagerly launched in person and was a huge success, helping to launch […]

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(Susan Youssef’s Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf landed online on July 14, 2020. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) An emotional roller coaster of a coming-of-age tale, […]

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On Monday, December 18, I interviewed director Jeremiah Zagar by phone to discuss his debut narrative feature (after years of documentary work) We the Animals, which I also reviewed. The film (which is available now via various VOD platforms) is […]

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A vibrant, evocative tone poem of a coming-of-age story, Jeremiah Zagar's We the Animals offers gorgeous cinematic riches galore, combined with a narrative of profound dramatic heft

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The alien world they’ve miraculously created on a shoestring budget is rife with implications of an expansive human-populated universe that is inaccessible to their financially-strapped protagonist.

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I met with directors Chris Caldwell and Zeek Earl, of the new science-fiction feature Prospect (which I also reviewed), on Sunday, March 11, at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival. The film, an adaptation of a short film the team produced […]

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the movie makes a virtue of limited resources, its low-end aesthetic contributing to the rawness of its survival narrative. Prospect is no fool's gold, but the real stuff that dreams are made of.

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A hallucinatory odyssey that plays out like a fever dream, The Bad Batch reflects a world of outcasts who struggle for survival upon being cast away from the tyrannical conformity of mainstream society.

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