Writer/director/actress Emily Robinson just premiered her debut feature, Ugly Cry, at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival (where I reviewed it). In the film, Robinson plays Delaney James, a 24-year-old struggling actor in Hollywood who faces additional challenges once […]

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Park Chan-wook returns with No Other Choice, which might be his most wickedly funny film yet. Lee Byung Hun stars as Man-su, a paper manufacturing specialist who has spent 25 years climbing the corporate ladder only to be unceremoniously laid […]

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(The Middleburg Film Festival runs October 16-19 in Middleburg, Virginia, and lead critic Chris Reed is on the ground doing coverage for us. Check out his It Was Just an Accident movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s’s The Baltimorons movie review, it opened September 5 and is in the midst of a nation wide roll-out. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) After over a decade away from the feature-film […]

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(The 2025 Vashon Island Film Fest runs August 7-10 on beautiful Vashon Island, just a ferry ride from Seattle. HtN has coverage coming your way like this The Balconettes movie review by Chris Reed! Seen it? Join the conversation with […]

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I Don’t Understand You, (reviewed here by Jessica Baxter) the new dark comedy from directors Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig, takes audiences on a nightmarish Italian vacation that spirals completely out of control. The film follows Dom (Nick Kroll) […]

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(Check out Jessica Baxter’s I Don’t Understand You movie review. It’s on VOD now via Vertical Entertainment. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Watching I Don’t Understand You, the new semi-autobiographical comedy/thriller co-written and directed by real-life […]

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(The Tribeca Festival runs June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out M.J. O’Toole’s The Travel Companion movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on […]

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In Honeyjoon, find ourselves in the paradise that is San Miguel island, the Azores, Portugal. Stark blue waters mirror the cloudless sky above as honeymooners bask in the sun, hand in hand, enveloped by the romantic allure of the island. […]

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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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