Following its TIFF premiere last fall and upcoming screening at SXSW where it will close the festival, Daniel Minahan’s 1950s-set romantic drama On Swift Horses is making its way to U.S. theaters. Adapted by Bryce Kass from Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 […]

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The first round of the lineup for the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally here! The festival is scheduled to run in Austin, Texas from March 7 through 14. It will have 96 features in total, including 82 […]

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Indie icon Crystal Moselle (Stake Kitchen; The Wolfpack) is once again blurring the line between fiction and documentary. She teams up with actor/rapper Derrick B. Harden to co-direct The Black Sea, a new cinema verité-like feature about a life turned […]

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“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for Irish freedom.” You wouldn’t think at first such a patriotic quote would apply to a scrappy rap trio from Belfast, but that’s one of many surprises of Kneecap – the […]

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If Beale Street Could Talk star KiKi Layne displays her musical chops in the new drama, Dandelion. Written and directed by Nicole Riegel (2021’s Hollar), it centers on a struggling singer-songwriter in the Midwest who goes on the road toward […]

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The SXSW Film & TV Festival, which runs from March 8-16, has announced the rest of its 2024 lineup in multiple categories. Adding 50 new films to this year’s slate brings the total number of features up to 115. Among […]

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Director Tracy Droz Tragos (Abortion: Stories Women Tell) is out with a new documentary about the fight to preserve abortion rights, this one entitled Plan C. It premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, but I only managed to see […]

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(Austin Texas’ South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival runs March 10-19. Stay tuned to Hammer to Nail for our usual great coverage like this movie review of Last Stop Larrimah. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) True crime […]

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Director Lagueria Davis premiered her debut feature-documentary Black Barbie: A Documentary, at SXSW 2023 (where I reviewed it). It follows the history of the first Black Barbie doll, starting with the hiring by Mattel of her own aunt, Beulah Mae […]

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(Austin Texas’ South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival ran March 10-19. Stay tuned to Hammer to Nail for our usual great coverage like this movie review of Brooklyn 45. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) It’s just after Christmas in […]

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