Medicine For Melancholy Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/medicine-for-melancholy/ What to Watch Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:15:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Medicine For Melancholy Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/medicine-for-melancholy/ 32 32 LOVE, BROOKLYN https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/love-brooklyn/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:39:03 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52542

(The 2025 Sundance Film Festival ran January 23- February 2 in and around gorgeous Park City, UT. HtN has you covered for all the hottest titles like M.J. O’Toole’s Love, Brooklyn movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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]]> PAST LIVES https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/past-lives/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:31:14 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38769

Editors Note: Past Lives opens theatrically this weekend in New York and Los Angeles, and will expand from there. Below is Matt Delman’s review from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. (The 2023 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 in and […]

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]]> PINK OPAQUE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/pink-opaque/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/pink-opaque/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:19:58 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35224

(Derrick Perry’s debut feature film Pink Opaque is available now to buy or rent on all digital platforms. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) The struggle […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/pink-opaque/feed/ 2 2017 IFP Screen Forward Conference Filmmaker Magazine Talks https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2017-ifp-filmmaker-magazine-talks/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:18:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28558 To kick off the 2017 IFP Screen Forward Conference, and in tandem with their 25th anniversary, Filmmaker Magazine programmed a dense day of panels and conversations with filmmakers. The first panel, featuring veteran and new filmmakers from their 25 New Faces […]

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]]> A Conversation with Laura Terruso (FITS AND STARTS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/laura-terruso-interview/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:36:56 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27689 I met with director Laura Terruso on Saturday, March 11, 2017, at SXSW, to discuss her new film, a gently clever comedy entitled Fits and Starts, which I also reviewed. The movie follows the misadventures of married couple David and […]

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]]> FITS AND STARTS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/fits-and-starts-review/ Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:31:09 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27672

Alas, the path to peace and harmony is a rocky one, though it's that journey that provides this enjoyably gentle comedy with not its only narrative trajectory, but much of its humor.

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]]> MOONLIGHT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/moonlight-review/ Fri, 04 Nov 2016 17:30:44 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27196

Each scene unfolds with such precision and assurance that it is hard to imagine that any other directorial choice, anywhere, would have worked as well.

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]]> A Conversation with Katie Aselton, Ben Kasulke, and Nat Sanders (THE FREEBIE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-katie-aselton-ben-kasulke-nat-sanders-the-freebie/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-katie-aselton-ben-kasulke-nat-sanders-the-freebie/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:14:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6163

The main characters of The Freebie, Darren (Dax Shepard) and Annie (Katie Aselton), are in a stable seven-year relationship built on love, trust, and communication. While they have fun together and really love one other, they also opt out of […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-katie-aselton-ben-kasulke-nat-sanders-the-freebie/feed/ 1 VOD REPORT https://www.hammertonail.com/vod-release/video-on-demand-september-2010/ https://www.hammertonail.com/vod-release/video-on-demand-september-2010/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:42:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6016 Note: This month, we welcome contributing watcher/writer John Lichman into the fold—hooray!—to not only take the pressure off your overburdened head writer/editor, but to bring some linguistic variety to the table. Hopefully in the future our contributor horizons will only […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/vod-release/video-on-demand-september-2010/feed/ 1 VOD REPORT https://www.hammertonail.com/vod-release/video-on-demand-august-2010/ Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:01:18 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5684 KEY: — A three-star marking (***) equals a very high recommendation. — A two-star marking (**) equals a high recommendation. — A one-star marking (*) equals a recommendation. — A no-star marking is reserved for those titles that are worth […]

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