The new movie Small Things Like These, from Belgian director Tim Mielants (Will), is an adaptation of Irish author Clair Keegan’s 2021 novella of the same title. Both film and source text tackle the horror of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, a […]

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(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Small Things Like These movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With her 2010 short story “Foster,” Irish writer Claire Keegan established herself as a beautiful […]

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Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, a trio of Canadian filmmakers known for their distinctive and experimental approach to cinema, have once again pushed the boundaries of storytelling with their latest project, Rumours. Maddin, a veteran director whose career […]

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Following up his Oscar-winning performance in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy stars as a devoted father dealing with the complexity of discovering a terrible truth in Small Things Like These. Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants directs this adaptation of the novel by Claire […]

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2023 has been the year everything got back to normal. Hahahha….oh man, had you there! As many people paying the slightest bit of attention know, “things” may never be “back to normal” again. But, let’s steer away from the big […]

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The major box-office successes of the year notwithstanding (we see you, “Barbenheimer”), 2023 saw many outstanding independent films come out to rival (or surpass) the quality of big-studio releases. Fortunately, in this 21st-century of ours, there are many theatrical distributors […]

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A staple of the upper west side, the New York Film Festival has the best films of the year. So it’s no surprise that this was the second straight year of record ticket sales. With most shows selling out packed […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s A Compassionate Spy movie review! The film is available now on VOD via Magnolia Pictures. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The new documentary A Compassionate Spy, from filmmaker Steve James (Abacus: […]

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Alessandro Borghi has been working in television and film since 2006. As a teenager he had dreams to be a boxer while studying Econ. From there he watched the film Raging Bull, which changed his life forever. He has starred […]

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