On January 22, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (or AMPAS) announced its nominees for the 2026 Oscars last week. Below, you will find the complete list, with the titles that Hammer to Nail covered in some way […]

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Director David Shadrack Smith just premiered his feature-documentary debut, Public Access, at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival (where I reviewed it). The film showcases all the wild, vibrant, and very weird content that proliferated on New York City’s Manhattan Cable […]

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Iranian-French cinematographer Darius Khondji turned 70 in October of this year and shows no sign of slowing down in any way. His credits include such masterpieces as Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 1991 Delicatessen and 1995 The City of Lost Children, David Fincher’s […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Marty Supreme movie review! It’s in theaters now via A24. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Brothers Benny and Josh Safdie together made a string of highly regarded features, culminating with the 2019 […]

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With his brother Benny making his solo directing outing later this year with his MMA drama The Smashing Machine, Josh Safdie is crafting his vision with a sports drama of his own just in time for Christmas. Marty Supreme takes […]

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Mom and therapist Linda is having one hell of a bad day in writer-director Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. Produced by fellow masters of chaos Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, the film stars Rose Byrne as […]

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Three years ago, at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight, I had the opportunity to speak with filmmaker Owen Kline to discuss his remarkable feature directorial debut, Funny Pages. At the time, Kline was most notable for his memorable […]

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He may be known for his distinct cinematography in the films of Alex Ross Perry, the Safdie Brothers, Nathan Silver, and more. But now, Sean Price Williams is taking the director’s seat in his unhinged road trip film, The Sweet […]

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(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s The Sweet East movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Sean Price Williams – known for his collaborations with Alex Ross Perry and the […]

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Do you remember the kid who played the younger brother in Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale? That was Owen Kline, and 17 years later he is back with his directorial debut. Funny Pages premiered at this year’s Cannes […]

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