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THE YEAR BETWEEN Trailer: Alex Heller and Company Shine in Edgy & Personal Dramedy

M.J. O'Toole — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 20:00:32 +0000

One breakout filmmaker and performer to look out for this year is Alex Heller. Her debut film The Year Between, which she writes, directs, and stars in, is a dramedy based on her own experiences of living with bipolar disorder. […]

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FUNNY PAGES Trailer: The Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Young Man

M.J. O'Toole — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:43:56 +0000

Do you remember the kid who played the younger brother in Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale? That was Owen Kline, and 17 years later he is back with his directorial debut. Funny Pages premiered at this year’s Cannes […]

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20 FILMS TO SEE (VIRTUALLY!) AT SUNDANCE 2021

The Editorial Staff — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:13:26 +0000

Founded in 1980 by Robert Redford to promote the art and craft of filmmaking, the U.S. Film Festival, rebranded as the Sundance Film Festival in 1985, has long been a beacon for American independent cinema. Ever since then, the annual […]

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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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Human Capital

Jessica Baxter — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:25:15 +0000

(After making it’s debut at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, Marc Meyers’ Human Capital is available now on VOD via DirecTV Cinema. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep […]

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EIGHTH GRADE

Christopher Reed — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:41:15 +0000

Recalling other films about fraught teen awakenings like Diary of a Teenage Girl and Me and You and Everyone We Know, Eighth Grade nevertheless charts its own course...

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Jessica Baxter’s 2018 Seattle International Film Festival Wrap-Up

Jessica Baxter — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:35:14 +0000

The 2018 Seattle International Film Festival ran from May 17th to June 10th. That’s 25 solid days of movie madness. It kicked off with the premiere of Isabel Coixet’s The Bookshop, starring Emily Mortimer as a widow who uses her […]

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EIGHTH GRADE

Matt Delman — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:35:01 +0000

The subtle moment encapsulates one of the central themes of the movie: that our technology is harming us and yet we continue to self-flagellate.

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