Nearly 45 years after working together on American Gigolo, director Paul Schrader and star Richard Gere are back for a more poignant drama about looking back at life while reaching the end of it. Oh, Canada stars Gere as Leonard […]

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The SXSW Film & TV Festival, which runs from March 8-16, has announced the rest of its 2024 lineup in multiple categories. Adding 50 new films to this year’s slate brings the total number of features up to 115. Among […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of How to Blow Up a Pipeline which hits theaters on Friday, April 7 via Neon.  Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Inspired by Andreas Malm’s eponymous 2021 nonfiction book, How […]

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In a time when climate change is growing rapidly, one film provides a very questionable solution. How To Blow Up A Pipeline follows a group of young environmental activists who are determined to demolish an oil pipeline in West Texas. […]

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The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) was founded in 1976 and since then has become one of the world’s premier showcases of quality films of all kinds, be they large event movies, microbudget flicks, and everything in between. Given […]

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After bringing Girls and Tiny Furniture to the world, former HtN contributor Lena Dunham brought her sophomore feature Sharp Stick to this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It centers on a 26-year-old caregiver (Kristine Froseth) who begins a sexual awakening through […]

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Greetings readers, Hammer to Nail editor Don R. Lewis here welcoming you to our annual “curtain raiser” for the Sundance Film Festival. In talking to my staff, I realized that i’m pretty sure no other film site covers more films […]

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