The Baltimorons marks Jay Duplass’s return to feature directing after more than a decade away from the director’s chair. The film follows Cliff (Michael Strassner), a newly sober improv comedian who cracks a tooth on Christmas Eve and lands in […]

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2023 has been the year everything got back to normal. Hahahha….oh man, had you there! As many people paying the slightest bit of attention know, “things” may never be “back to normal” again. But, let’s steer away from the big […]

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(Austin Texas’ South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival runs March 10-19. Stay tuned to Hammer to Nail for our usual great coverage like this movie review of Last Stop Larrimah. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) True crime […]

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Imagine having to survive the apocalypse with your best friend. That seems to be the case for Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass in Biosphere. The duo star as lifelong pals who try to find ways to survive in their […]

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Our final day at the inaugural Vashon Island Film Festival was the kind of gorgeous August day that made me fall in love with the Pacific Northwest so many years ago. The mountain was out. Crystal-clear shimmering waters, reflecting cloudless […]

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S#I%house, one of my favorite #LostFilmsofSXSW20 with a lightly renovated title, has luckily been found by a distributor, IFC Films, and will hopefully be found by a wide audience when it comes out October 16  in Virtual Cinemas and On […]

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One of the features of the increasingly-unpleasant-but-unavoidable social media site Facebook is called ‘Memories.’ Over the weekend, ‘Memories’ kindly reminded me that it was nearly 5 years ago that I was able to convince Hammer to Nail site founders Michael […]

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Mohan and Tuxford’s script is funny, but not because the teenaged characters are clever beyond their years. The comedy comes from a very truthful place of painful awkwardness...

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