(Darius Marder’s buzzed about narrative-feature debut Sound of Metal is streaming now on Amazon Prime. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Woven together with tough dramatic sinew, […]

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(Lawrence Michael Levine’s Black Bear opens in select theaters and on VOD Friday, December 4 via Momentum Pics. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Despite the […]

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I met with writer/director Matthew Porterfield on Saturday, May 5, 2018, at the Maryland Film Festival (MdFF). We discussed his most recent feature – his fourth – Sollers Point (which I also reviewed), set in Baltimore, hometown to the both of […]

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A hard-hitting examination of angry male self-destructiveness, and the lonely dead end to which it leads, the film takes no narrative prisoners, leaving us without a soothing catharsis

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We've seen many "hookers with a heart of gold" stories before, but none like this...

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