(The 2022 Annapolis Film Festival runs March 31-April 4. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of The Automat. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) For much of the 20th century, Horn & Hardart Automats were a fixture […]

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As I did in 2020, I moderated a number of virtual Q&As for this year’s Annapolis Film Festival. One of them was with director Justin S. Monroe, to discuss his documentary Holy Frit (which I reviewed out of Slamdance 2021). […]

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As I did in 2020, I moderated a number of virtual Q&As for this year’s Annapolis Film Festival. One of them was with director Sonia Kennebeck, to discuss her documentary Enemies of the State (which I also reviewed). The film […]

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(The 2021 Annapolis Film Festival runs April 8-18, all virtually. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Documentaries in our current era come in all shapes and […]

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Out of their original debacle rose the phoenix of today’s techverse. It’s a history worth telling, then, and directors Sarah Kerruish and Matt Maude do a fine job presenting the detailed facts of the case.

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It’s interesting to me that the film was directed by a woman, Liina Trishkina, given its relentless focus on the male protagonist, with the female characters barely sketched out.

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Though the emotional terrain of the movie is fraught, the mise-en-scène is remarkably gentle, Khoo placing the one in evocative opposition to the other.

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In This Changes Everything, documentarian Tom Donahue (Thank You for Your Service) chronicles the never-ending struggle of women in Hollywood to achieve something resembling gender parity.

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Imagine a world in which you put your life on the line for an idea only to find yourself abandoned by erstwhile allies. Such is the plight of the interpreters who helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq...

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