(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 Brad Cook gets caught up […]

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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of A Different Man. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Aaron Schimberg in his third feature film, A Different Man, sets himself into a […]

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(Here at Hammer to Nail, we’re 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 new addition to the […]

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(Check out Sammy Levine’s movie review for Moon Garden, in theaters Friday, May 19 via Oscilloscope Laboratories. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Moon Garden, the debut feature of Ryan Stevens Harris is a nightmarish fantasia summoning […]

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(Here at Hammer to Nail, we 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, Brad Cook goes up, […]

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I spoke with director Martha Shane (Picture Character) by phone a few weeks after DOC NYC to discuss her latest documentary, Narrowsburg (which I also reviewed). This was my second conversation with her in the past year (I previously interviewed […]

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The director emphasizes the illusory nature of Tinseltown fantasies through her talking-head interviews, projecting duplicate images of her subjects in multiple places in the frame as they speak, a device both appropriate to the theme and visually striking.

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That unsure sense of tone is what causes Jabberwocky to stumble a bit as the tale unfolds...

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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan is a labor of love that took 10 years to make. It was released in 2011, just two years before its subject passed away, so it's fortunate that the filmmakers were able to create a complete chronicle of his life and talk to so many influential people before he was gone.

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