Pulp fans are a patient people. We’ve waited years between scant albums and tours. Their most recent album More, is only their 8th LP since they formed as teenagers in Sheffield, England in 1978. It was their first new album […]

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The Scout opens this Friday at Film Forum in NYC. Below is Matt Delman’s interview with Director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser and star Mimi Davila, edited for length and clarity. You can also read his full review here. Hammer to Nail: I […]

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(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York movie review from the […]

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The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) marked its 50th anniversary last year and now is back again, running September 10-20, with 293 films (shorts and features) in its official slate. As always, Hammer to Nail will offer coverage of […]

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Hirokazu Kore-eda has spent his career making quiet, humane films about families, and he won the Palme d’Or for one of them, Shoplifters, in 2018. Sheep in the Box, his seventeenth feature, keeps its attention on parents and children but […]

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Nicolas Winding Refn has been one of my favorite filmmakers since I first saw Drive as a kid. In the years since, I have watched every Refn picture across every format he has worked in, from the grainy Copenhagen of […]

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Radu Jude was born in Bucharest in 1977. He studied film directing at the Media University in Bucharest and began his career making shorts, television programs, and music videos. His feature debut, The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), won several international […]

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The documentary Black Zombie marks director Maya Annik Bedward’s feature debut. In the film, Bedward examines how the cinematic zombie has its roots in the Haitian Vodou faith, even though the original term refers to a live person enslaved by a sorcerer, and […]

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In contemporary arthouse cinema, the line between score and sound design is often very blurry, but rarely is it navigated with as much familial intuition as in the work of composer Giorgi Koberidze. Following his work on his brother Alexandre […]

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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Ugly Cry movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In her directorial debut feature, Ugly Cry, actor-turned-writer/director Emily Robinson delivers […]

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