(Check our Chris Reed’s A Real Pain movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Jesse Eisenberg follows up his 2022 directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World, with another carefully realized character study filled with […]

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Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin are certainly A Real Pain to one another, but when is family usually not? Eisenberg writes and directs the new dark comedy, his second directorial venture following 2022’s When You Finish Saving the World. It […]

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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Matt Delman’s movie review of Sasquatch Sunset . Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If there’s any major conflict in the lives of humans, it pales in comparison […]

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David and Nathan Zellner have been making films together since they were children. David and Nathan have been apart of the indie film world for quite some time, however, it was 2014’s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter that really put them […]

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Fresh off its Sundance world premiere, David and Nathan Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset will likely put some pep in the spring season’s step! Their third feature, following Kumiko the Treasure Hunter and Damsel, explores the mythical creatures of the wilderness in […]

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The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the Jury and Audience award winners for its 2024 edition. The U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury prize went to first-time director Alessandra Lacorazza’s In the Summers, about two sisters who navigate their loving but volatile […]

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The Sundance Institute has just announced the lineup for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, which is making its in-person return to Park City, Utah. The section for this year includes Competition titles (Narrative & Documentary), the Premiere section, and Midnight […]

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On top of working as an actor for nearly two decades, Jesse Eisenberg has also branched out as a playwright and a short story writer. His opportunity to make his own film came as soon as he came up with […]

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(The 2022 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 all virtually. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of When You Finish Saving the World. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help […]

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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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