After co-writing last year’s VistaVision epic The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet go further back in time for their latest collaboration, which musically retells the origins of a colonial religious movement. The Testament of Ann Lee, with Fastvold at […]

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The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5-15, and this year’s edition promises a strong, exciting variety of new cinema – ranging from Almodovar’s English feature debut The Room Next Door, to Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, to […]

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Following their main slate lineup announcement last week, the Cannes Film Festival has now announced the lineups for its 2024 Directors’ Fortnight, Critics Week, and ACID Lineups. Notable standouts include India Donaldson’s Sundance darling Good One (read our ND/NF review), […]

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(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out Matt Delman’s Poor Things movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The enjoyably eccentric Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has a growing body of work […]

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Five years after working together on The Favourite, director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) and star Emma Stone reunite for a more jaw-dropping British tale. Poor Things is Lanthimos’s first feature in five years and opens in theaters early this […]

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Zachary Wigon is in his mid 30s and has lived in New York his entire life. He graduated from Tisch School of Arts. He has been working in the industry for quite some time, his feature debut, which he wrote […]

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Not even a safeword could get you out of a situation like this. Margaret Qualley is out to punish Christopher Abbott in the sexy and twisted new film, Sanctuary. The film is directed by Zachary Wigon (The Heart Machine) with […]

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Over a year after it premiered at Sundance, where it picked up the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Prize, Jerrod Carmichael’s directorial debut On the Count of Three is finally getting its release in theaters and on digital next month. A comedian […]

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(Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come is in theaters now and drops on VOD March 2 via Bleecker Street. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Upstate New York in […]

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I recently spoke by Zoom with director Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries) about his latest movie, Black Bear (which I also reviewed), starring Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West), Christopher Abbott (Katie Says Goodbye) and Sarah Gadon (American Woman). Plaza plays […]

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