Director Katie Aselton (Mack & Rita) is out with a new film, Magic Hour (which I also reviewed), in which she also stars, joined by Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting), Brad Garrett (Cha Cha Real Smooth) and others. Co-written with her husband, […]

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(The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival runs May 7-17th in and around Seattle. Check out Jessica Baxter’s See You When I See You movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Duplass Brothers […]

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See You When I See You was directed by Jay Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, The Baltimorons) and written by comedian Adam Cayton-Holland. It adapts Cayton-Holland’s 2018 memoir Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir into a warm, deeply original, and fiercely […]

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The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Last year’s passing of Sundance progenitor Robert Redford kind of added a real […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s’s The Baltimorons movie review, it opened September 5 and is in the midst of a nation wide roll-out. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) After over a decade away from the feature-film […]

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It’s Christmas in July. After numerous years of collaborating with his brother Mark and rising as an actor, Jay Duplass has made his solo directing debut with a comedy set in Baltimore on Christmas Eve. The Baltimorons stars Michael Strassner […]

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The first round of the lineup for the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally here! The festival is scheduled to run in Austin, Texas from March 7 through 14. It will have 96 features in total, including 82 […]

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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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