Hamilton Archives - Hammer to Nail

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

Brandon Wilson — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:16:05 +0000

(Check out Brandon Wilson’s Merrily We Roll Along movie review, it opens Friday, November 5. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There are few words in all of filmdom that strike fear in the hearts of cinephiles […]

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R#J

Melanie Addington — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 20:05:41 +0000

(The 2021 Sundance Film Festival runs January 28- February 3, all virtually as well as with drive-ins sprinkled around the U.S.. Hammer to Nail is bringing you a ton of coverage so, keep coming back! Like what you see here on Hammer to […]

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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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BLINDSPOTTING

Jessica Baxter — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 22:14:02 +0000

Carlos López Estrada tackles such a staggering number of themes in his feature debut, Blindspotting, that it almost feels like too much for one film. Then again, that may be part of the point.

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A Conversation with Matthew Porterfield (SOLLERS POINT)

Christopher Reed — Wed, 16 May 2018 22:32:11 +0000

I met with writer/director Matthew Porterfield on Saturday, May 5, 2018, at the Maryland Film Festival (MdFF). We discussed his most recent feature – his fourth – Sollers Point (which I also reviewed), set in Baltimore, hometown to the both of […]

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BLINDSPOTTING

Christopher Reed — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:27:57 +0000

...a raw, personal story that combines biting humor and stark violence to showcase the sharp racial and class inequalities in many or our country's urban centers.

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CASSETTE

Jessica Baxter — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:22:19 +0000

You don’t throw this out. You take care of it. Because someone took that time out of their life that they can’t get back to make this tape for you.

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PUTTY HILL

Cullen Gallagher — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:30:12 +0000

With Putty Hill, Porterfield has made good on all the promises of Hamilton, creating a film that is at once more redolent and reticent, but that also takes his narrative experimentation another step forward.

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BAMcinemaFEST 2010 – An Overview (Updated Daily!!!)

Michael Tully — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:18:37 +0000

After a resoundingly successful first year, BAMcinemaFEST is back to reaffirm its status as one of the premiere showcases in New York City for the freshest and brightest cinema of the current calendar year. While the BAMcinemaFEST program is most […]

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VIDEO ON DEMAND – May 2010

Michael Tully — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:23:42 +0000

While we’ve known for quite some time that a routine post alerting you to what’s available through the ever expanding list of Video On Demand channels has been long overdue, it s been really hard for me personally to wrap […]

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