(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s No Other Land movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In the recent Edward Berger film Conclave, the character played by Ralph Fiennes delivers a speech in […]

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The 2025 Academy Awards nominations were announced last week. We thought you’d like to know which ones have received coverage from us over the past year. Below you will find the complete list of nominees, and any titles that are […]

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Nearly thirty years after starring together in The English Patient, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche are back together in a bold retelling of Homer’s “Odyssey.” Fiennes, already drawing awards buzz for his performance in Conclave, portrays the legendary hero Odysseus […]

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The new movie Conclave, from German director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), tells the surprisingly gripping tale of what happens during a papal conclave three weeks after a pontiff’s death. Adapted from Robert Harris’ eponymous novel and […]

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(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival runs October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Conclave movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Every time a Pope dies, Catholics around the world no doubt find themselves both mourning the loss […]

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The 2024 Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 10, and as usual there are 15 nominated short films across three categories: animation, documentary, and live action. As I do every year for Hammer to Nail, I watch all of […]

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Well….it looks like everyone survived this year’s Fantastic Fest (unless you were cast in the ultra-violent South Korean bloodbath, Project Wolf Hunting). The heat outside was brutal and so was the madness on screen. With audiences returning back to Austin, […]

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(After a successful festival run, starting with the 2021 Sundance FIlm Festival, Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s trippy Strawberry Mansion is in select theaters now and drops digitally on Friday, February 25 via Music Box Films. Bears Rebecca Fonté interviewed […]

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