After bringing us The Banshees of Inisherin and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh is back and doing what he does best: pairing together an annoying guy and an annoyed guy under deadly circumstances. Wild Horse Nine stars John […]

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Noah Segan is a fourth-generation New Yorker who has been a part of the independent and genre film community for nearly two decades. Early in his career, filmmaker Rian Johnson cast Segan in the Sundance Award-winning hit Brick, beginning a […]

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Once Upon a Time in Harlem is the best film I saw at Sundance this year. It is also, in a sense, a miracle. In 1972, the legendary documentary filmmaker William Greaves—director of the avant-garde masterpiece Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), […]

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(The 2023 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 7-18 and HtN has a ton of coverage coming like Chris Reed’s The Listener movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is only one person on screen in Steve Buscemi’s The […]

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(The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 9-26 both online and in-person. Check out Matt Delman’s movie review for The Year Between. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In the edgy family comedy The Year Between, Alex Heller’s character […]

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One breakout filmmaker and performer to look out for this year is Alex Heller. Her debut film The Year Between, which she writes, directs, and stars in, is a dramedy based on her own experiences of living with bipolar disorder. […]

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The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival had no shortage of movie stars, red carpets, cocktail parties and good films. Unlike TIFF and Sundance that takeover the whole town, the Tribeca festival can feel a bit scattered in a city as sprawling as […]

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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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Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Nancy tells the tale of a thirtysomething woman with a tenuous grip on reality who convinces herself that her sad life is not the one she was meant to live

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(We here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, our “The Curbside Criterion” […]

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