Following a festival run last year and a trio of Independent Spirit Award nominations (including Best First Feature), Tomás Gómez Bustillo’s debut feature Chronicles of a Wandering Saint is finally arriving this June from Hope Runs High Film. The supernatural comedy […]

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People sure love a good found-footage horror film! The premise for Late Night With the Devil is simple, but just as nail-biting and terrifying. A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms. […]

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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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(Austin Texas’  2023 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival ran March 10-19. Check out this movie review of This World Is Not My World . Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Plato believed that art is a […]

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Director Ted Geoghegan (We Are Still Here) just premiered his latest film, Brooklyn 45, at SXSW 2023 (where I reviewed it). It follows a group of five people who gather in the direct aftermath of World War II’s conclusion and find […]

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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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Director Penny Lane (Hail Satan?) is out with a new documentary, Confessions of a Good Samaritan, which just had its world premiere at SXSW 2023 (where I reviewed it). It tells the story of how Lane decided to become an […]

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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 Black Barbie: A Documentary. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Director […]

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This year’s South By Southwest Film & TV Festival has officially unveiled the 2023 award winners. Though it does not end until March 19, the jurors had already convened after watching the films remotely, out of COVID safety precautions. Buzzy […]

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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 The Lady Bird Diaries. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) As […]

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