Director Katie Aselton (Mack & Rita) is out with a new film, Magic Hour (which I also reviewed), in which she also stars, joined by Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting), Brad Garrett (Cha Cha Real Smooth) and others. Co-written with her husband, […]

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(The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival runs May 7-17th in and around Seattle. Check out Jessica Baxter’s See You When I See You movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Duplass Brothers […]

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One indie drama that made waves following its premieres at the 2025 Edinburgh International Film Festival and NewFest was writer-director Elliot Tuttle’s Blue Film. While screening to much acclaim, Tuttle’s feature debut has also garnered controversy over its provocative and […]

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In 2022, a then-16-year-old Kane Parsons (aka Kane Pixels) introduced the world to his creepypasta, found-footage web series Backrooms, which drew tens of millions of viewers and followers on YouTube over the next few years. Now, the 20-year-old director has […]

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See You When I See You was directed by Jay Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Cyrus, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, The Baltimorons) and written by comedian Adam Cayton-Holland. It adapts Cayton-Holland’s 2018 memoir Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-comic Memoir into a warm, deeply original, and fiercely […]

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The Tribeca Festival has announced its starry 2024 lineup. It will be take place June 5 – 16. Opening the festival is the documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, which captures fashion designer von Furstenberg’s impact as a feminist […]

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Imagine having to survive the apocalypse with your best friend. That seems to be the case for Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass in Biosphere. The duo star as lifelong pals who try to find ways to survive in their […]

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Our final day at the inaugural Vashon Island Film Festival was the kind of gorgeous August day that made me fall in love with the Pacific Northwest so many years ago. The mountain was out. Crystal-clear shimmering waters, reflecting cloudless […]

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(The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 9-26 both online and in-person. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review for Wes Schlagenhauf Is Dying. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The great documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman once said, “Not […]

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It’s been a strange few years for the major North American film festivals. After starting off the year with a disappointing virtual Sundance, the 2022 SXSW film festival eagerly launched in person and was a huge success, helping to launch […]

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