Tessa Thompson Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/tessa-thompson/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:36:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Tessa Thompson Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/tessa-thompson/ 32 32 THE LISTENER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-listener/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:48:52 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=39763

(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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]]> HTN’S 15 Most Anticipated Films at the 2021 New York Film Festival https://www.hammertonail.com/features/nyff-21-preview/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:34:41 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35484

The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. There are 5 sections in the program: the Main Slate (with 32 features), Currents (15 features and 8 shorts programs), Spotlight (9 […]

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]]> PASSING https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/passing/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 20:00:27 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34158

(The 2021 Sundance Film Festival runs January 28- February 3, all virtually as well as with drive-ins sprinkled around the U.S.. Hammer to Nail is bringing you a ton of coverage so, keep coming back! Like what you see here on Hammer to […]

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]]> SYLVIE’S LOVE https://www.hammertonail.com/latest-reviews/sylvies-love/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:05:21 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33920

(Eugene Ashe’s Sylvie’s Love is available starting December 23 on Amazon Prime. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) In Sylvie’s Love, a well-designed period melodrama set […]

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]]> LITTLE WOODS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/little-woods-review/ Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:21:52 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30578

The story may be bleak, but the discovery of a talent as bright as DaCosta's is as hopeful as it gets.

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]]> SORRY TO BOTHER YOU https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/sorry-to-bother-you-review/ Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:11:00 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28969

Media as a weapon emerged as a theme throughout; a viral video is an advertiser’s best friend, but can also be a powerful platform for social change. Sorry to Bother You harnesses that possibility, preaching the ideas of a mass working class uprising and racial equality through a satirical, accessible, memorably insane indie film

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]]> Jessica Baxter’s 2018 Seattle International Film Festival Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/2018-siff-wrap/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:35:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29789 The 2018 Seattle International Film Festival ran from May 17th to June 10th. That’s 25 solid days of movie madness. It kicked off with the premiere of Isabel Coixet’s The Bookshop, starring Emily Mortimer as a widow who uses her […]

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]]> Jim Brunzell’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival Preview https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/brunzell-2018-sundance-preview/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:08:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28883 The projectors are warming up, the curtains are about to be raised and the first images will soon be hitting the screen on the 2018 Sundance Film Festival (hosted by the Sundance Institute), starting Thursday, January 18 and running through […]

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]]> Of Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes, or Why “Dear White People” Deserves Another Look https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/of-racial-and-ethnic-stereotypes-or-why-dear-white-people-deserves-another-look/ Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:01:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25296

Here’s a joke for you: What is Heaven? In Heaven, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian, the police are British, the engineers are German and the bureaucrats are Swiss. What is Hell? In Hell, the cooks are British, […]

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