Hammer to Nail is traveling to Austin as lead critic Chris Reed is once again headed to the Texas state capital. SXSW 2026 runs March 12-18. With 120 features, 90 of which are world premieres, plus assorted television pilots, XR […]

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The SXSW Film & TV Festival, which runs from March 8-16, has announced the rest of its 2024 lineup in multiple categories. Adding 50 new films to this year’s slate brings the total number of features up to 115. Among […]

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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Bears Rebecca Fonté’s movie review of Desire Lines. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Do you want to feel like you’re on the front line of America’s culture […]

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The SXSW Festival has unveiled its second wave of film and TV premieres for its 2023 edition, including its Visions, Global (presented by MUBI), 24 Beats, and Festival Favorites sections. The festival will take place in Austin, TX from March […]

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SXSW has announced the first wave of films and television programming making their world premiere for its 2023 festival. While some of the sections have yet to be announced, the lineup in both narrative and documentary sections feature exciting new […]

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Yes, Nothing Stays the Same: the Story of the Saxon Pub is very much a love-letter to the Saxon Pub and, as such, often comes off like a Saxon Pub infomercial. Yet within this slick, loving doc lie a million little stories whose parts equal a greater whole.

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Although the U.S. leadership purports to be good Christians, they have no desire to assist those who need help. True Christians – heck, any decent human being – wouldn’t turn these people away from the border.

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If Andrew Bujalski’s first two films were focused on characters staring into the precipice of adulthood (a metaphor that Garden State made all too literal), then the denizens of Beeswax are inside the sinkhole staring back.

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In KID-THING, the Zellner Bros.’ second feature film, Annie, the titular character, is in every way on her own, roaming the fields and alleyways of rural Texas with paintball gun and aluminum bat in hand, destroying all she comes across.

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