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MY HEART CAN’T BEAT UNLESS YOU TELL IT TO

Christopher Reed — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:12:00 +0000

(Like many other film festivals, the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival was physically cancelled but has moved online. Hammer to Nail is excited to bring you our usual amazing coverage so keep an eye out! Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not […]

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THE DARK

Christopher Reed — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:51:12 +0000

There are many foul and twisted charms to savor throughout, thanks to solid cinematography, fine editing and an engaging turn from lead actress Nadia Alexander.

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3 Mini-Reviews from SFIFF 2017

Jessica Baxter — Fri, 19 May 2017 17:33:46 +0000

(Jessica Baxter did some legwork at this year’s SFIFF. Here’s her final three reviews from the fest which ran April 5-19.) Family Life (Vida de Familia) Chilean directors Alicia Scherson and Cristian Jimenez teamed up for this tragicomedy about a trainwreck […]

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A Conversation With Michael O’Shea & Sung Rae Cho (THE TRANSFIGURATION)

Christopher Reed — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:54:03 +0000

I met with director Michael O’Shea and cinematographer Sung Rae Cho on Saturday, March 11, 2017, to discuss their collaboration on O’Shea’s feature debut, The Transfiguration (which I also reviewed), which explores one boy’s obsession with vampirism. It premiered at […]

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THE TRANSFIGURATION

Christopher Reed — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:26:25 +0000

O'Shea does wonders with his young cast, in what could have been a tired retread of a well-worn genre, giving us a deeply moving portrait of a killer and his redemption.

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2015 Seattle International Film Festival Wrap-Up

Jessica Baxter — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:28:28 +0000

(Another SIFF has come and gone – this one during Seattle’s warmest, driest spring on record, which made queuing up outside much more pleasant than usual. I continued my inadvertent tradition of missing all the films that received Golden Space […]

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BULLIES ON SCREEN

Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:55:51 +0000

The bully in movies has been around for nearly as long as the medium itself. At the end of Chaplin’s City Lights, the Tramp is broke, alone, on the street. At his lowest point, he feels the sticky pang of […]

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NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: Issue #3

Michael Tully — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:46:52 +0000

Another month is gone. Another month is here. Time to re-up y’all’s queues: ***ISSUE #3: OCTOBER ‘09*** Forbidden Lie$ (2007) — Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski and her subject Norma Khouri take us on a head-spinning romp of fact and fiction in […]

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LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

Michael Lerman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:28:51 +0000

(Let the Right One In is available on DVD and Blu-ray from Magnolia Pictures. Watch the trailer here.) About once a year, a filmmaker succeeds at creating truly idiosyncratic genre fare, employing all the tropes of a standard stock of […]

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