It was a whirlwind of a film festival. I’m talking about the 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival that I was super lucky to attend July 30 through August 3. The fest itself ran July 31-August 2 but, I like to […]

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(The 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival runs July 30 through August 2 in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, TX. Check out Don Lewis’s The Sun Never Sets movie review, it’s in theaters August 28 from the Independent Film Company. […]

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I am writing to you from the 15th Oak Cliff Film Festival and this time, it’s personal. I’ll get back to that (you know what you did…) momentarily but, I really cannot believe it’s the 15th festival seeing as I […]

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After slowing down following a big directing streak in the 2010s, writer-director Joe Swanberg is back with a new authentically acted feature. The Sun Never Sets is a romantic drama that centers on a love triangle set in contemporary Alaska […]

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How does the process of grief help us understand a person better? Can we tell who a person was from the things they leave behind? These are some of the questions that director/co-writer Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme) and actor/co-writer Callie […]

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Invader may not be for you. Director Mickey Keating has made a film that shows you what it is immediately and if you need to walk out after five minutes he’s okay with that. He has given you permission. But […]

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Filmmaker Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) blurs fiction and autobiographical nonfiction in her newest 16mm feature, Invention. It stars Callie Hernandez (who co-wrote the script with Stephens) as a woman who returns to her hometown following the passing […]

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(HtN fave Zach Clark is back with his wonderfully weird yet touching alien invasion film The Becomers. The film is out now on VOD via Darkstar Pictures. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Writer/director Zach Clark (Little […]

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Hammer to Nail loves us some Zach Clark weirdness! The writer-director, known for Little Sister and White Reindeer, returns with a new visually striking spin on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The Becomers follows two body-snatching aliens, arriving separately on […]

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2023 has been the year everything got back to normal. Hahahha….oh man, had you there! As many people paying the slightest bit of attention know, “things” may never be “back to normal” again. But, let’s steer away from the big […]

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