The life and mind of the late, boundary-pushing Southern writer Flannery O’Connor have been given the biopic treatment thanks to director Ethan Hawke. Maya Hawke stars as the celebrated writer going through a moment in her life where she tries […]

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(The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) ran September 7-17 and HtN has tons of coverage from the fest! Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of Wildcat. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Whenever one reads the fiction […]

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The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 7-17, and despite the ongoing Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes, the event still promises to bring an exciting collection of filmmakers and stars (thanks to SAG waivers) to Canada’s most […]

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Founded in 2002 in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks on downtown Manhattan, the Tribeca Film Festival spent its first few two decades running at the end of April. In 2021, the festival moved to June as a response […]

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Released in 2005,The Squid and the Whale marked a turning point in the career of New York-based filmmaker Noah Baumbach.

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