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A Conversation with James Griffiths, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Tom Basden & Tim Key (THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND)

Jack Schenker — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:47:02 +0000

I had the opportunity to speak with key talent behind The Ballad of Wallis Island. This charming tale follows eccentric lottery winner Charles (Tim Key) who manages to reunite his favorite folk-rock duo, McGwyer Mortimer, for a private performance at his remote […]

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THE BATTLE OF WALLIS ISLAND

Christopher Reed — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:01:29 +0000

(Check out Chris Reed’s The Ballad of Wallis Island movie review, it’s in theaters now via Focus Features. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) An adaptation of a 2007 short film from the same creative team (director, writers/co-stars), James Griffiths’ […]

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MAESTRO

Christopher Reed — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:19:12 +0000

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Maestro. The film is in theaters now as well as on Netflix. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The great American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) left behind a […]

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PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN GRABS RAPE CULTURE BY THE BALLS

Jessica Baxter — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:21:32 +0000

On January 26th, 2021, TV and Film journalist, Candice Frederick, hosted a press junket via Zoom for journalists around the world to discuss the powerful and divisive film, Promising Young Woman. The guests were writer/director Emerald Fennell (showrunner for Killing […]

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PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Jessica Baxter — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:22:20 +0000

(Emerald Fennell’s rape-revenge film Promising Young Woman hits theaters and VOD in December via Focus Features. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) I can’t stop thinking about […]

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New York Film Festival 2017 Report: ZAMA and MUDBOUND

Nelson Kim — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:54:47 +0000

(Mudbound will be released on November 17, on Netflix and in select theaters. Strand Releasing plans to release Zama in U.S. theaters in early 2018.) Two noteworthy historical films made their local debuts at this year’s recently concluded New York […]

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SHAME

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:06:11 +0000

Steve McQueen’s follow-up to one of the most astonishing cinematic debuts in recent memory is just as interested as 2008’s Hunger in the collision of the physical and the psychological, of how the fluttering of the mind drives and punishes the body.

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CATCHER IN THE RYE, THE MOVIE

Noah Buschel — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:52:58 +0000

I was going to see a friend’s play called In The Wake at The Public. The other play going on was called Gatz—an unlikely sensation of a play where a bunch of actors read The Great Gatsby in its entirety. […]

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Tully’s TIFF ‘09 Wrap-Up

Michael Tully — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:58:31 +0000

Not that I doubted my trusted sources (aka, anyone who’s ever been to it), but now that I’ve experienced the Toronto International Film Festival for myself, I can confirm that everyone was right. For such a gargantuan event, TIFF coasts […]

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