Writer-director (and HtN alum) David Lowery is back with Mother Mary, a mystical, psychological thriller that looks at fame and identity in a whole new light. Anne Hathaway stars as a pop artist who has an uneasy reunion with her […]

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Following his haunting, mythical, and magnificent epic The Green Knight, former HtN contributor David Lowery has another enchanting nailbiter up his sleeve for us this coming spring. Mother Mary, which he wrote and directed, is a surreal thriller set in […]

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In his latest film, All That We Love, director Yan Tan (1985) explores grief and love in a great variety of forms, using the initial death of a beloved pet as the catalyst for the narrative. Standup comedian Margaret Cho […]

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When is Luca Guadagnino not on a role? The director made waves this year by making moviegoers swoon and thirst over the love triangle in his smash hit Challengers. Now he’s back with another tale of lust and longing that […]

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Writer-director Ricky D’Ambrose’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film The Cathedral is one of the most notable films that premiered at this year’s Sundance, as well as New Directors/New Films. A tale of a conflicting, struggling family seen through the eyes of a […]

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It’s been a strange few years for the major North American film festivals. After starting off the year with a disappointing virtual Sundance, the 2022 SXSW film festival eagerly launched in person and was a huge success, helping to launch […]

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Greetings readers, Hammer to Nail editor Don R. Lewis here welcoming you to our annual “curtain raiser” for the Sundance Film Festival. In talking to my staff, I realized that i’m pretty sure no other film site covers more films […]

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As 2021 comes to a close, a battle is raging right now on “Film Twitter” (if you don’t know what that  is, consider yourself lucky) as critics and pundits “Best Of” lists drop online. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car continues to […]

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As 2021 dawned, we found ourselves as a nation more consumed by the political drama unfolding around us than any narrative created by filmmakers. Truth was, for a while, far stranger than fiction. Eventually, however, we returned to something resembling […]

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(David Lowery, former HtN contributor and director on an amazing trajectory, had his latest release, The Green Knight, in theaters July 30 via A24. The film is streaming on all major platforms starting Thursday, August 19, 2021. Like what you see […]

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