(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of The Taking, in theaters May 5, 2023 via Dekanalog. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) My initial visit (of two) to Monument Valley came in 2018, many years after I […]

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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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(The 2020 Sundance Film Festival ran January 23-February 2 in and around Park City Utah. Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground at the fest and guarantee more coverage thank any other site out there. Like what you see here on Hammer […]

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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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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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