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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One of the biggest risk-taking directors of all time, John Boorman, signed on to direct what was the highly anticipated second chapter of “The Exorcist” series, Exorcist II: The Heretic. What people didn’t anticipate would be the critical disaster that […]

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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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There has been no shortage of artistically strong films in 2025, which is why the critics at Hammer to Nail offer up such a great variety of titles in their respective Top 10 lists of the year. Our choices run […]

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Like or dislike her reviews – and I do both – there is no denying her importance in the history of the movies.

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