The new movie Small Things Like These, from Belgian director Tim Mielants (Will), is an adaptation of Irish author Clair Keegan’s 2021 novella of the same title. Both film and source text tackle the horror of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, a […]

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(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Small Things Like These movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With her 2010 short story “Foster,” Irish writer Claire Keegan established herself as a beautiful […]

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Following up his Oscar-winning performance in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy stars as a devoted father dealing with the complexity of discovering a terrible truth in Small Things Like These. Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants directs this adaptation of the novel by Claire […]

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After two weeks of new cinema, the Berlin International Film Festival came to a close with its annual awards ceremony. This year’s festival created buzz with many exciting new titles, among them being Tim Mielants’ opener Small Things Like These […]

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The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled a very exciting lineup for its 2024 edition in the International Competition and Encounters sections. Many of these films come with star power, such as A24’s A Different Man with Sebastian Stan, Alonso […]

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Years after making a splash on the indie scene with The Fits, filmmakers Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis bring their newest drama from inner-city Cincinnati to an Irish fishing village. God’s Creatures premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival […]

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Cannes has now announced the slate for this year’s Directors’ Fortnight, aka Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section, following the in-competition lineup announcement last week. The opening film in this section is Scarlet, by Martin Eden director Pietro Marcello. Inspired by the […]

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(As you may have noticed, it’s holiday season! As a result, Hammer to Nail is going to bust out some reviews of the latest and greatest Criterion Blu Rays as well as re-running reviews and interviews of films that are […]

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