Alia Shawkat is an aspiring actress honing her craft in a very unlikely setting: Atropia! Model, journalist, and actress Hailey Benton Gates wrote and directed the dark comedy that took home the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this […]

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Half a decade after his last feature directorial venture Her Smell, former HtN contributor Alex Ross Perry is back with a new experimental undertaking. Pavements is a tribute to the iconic indie rock band Pavement, led by frontman Stephen Malkmus […]

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After a week of buzzy premieres and cinematic revelations, the Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the Jury and Audience award winners for its 2025 edition. Over the past week, the festival screened 94 feature-length and episodic works, and 57 short […]

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One film that has certainly made waves over the past few years is writer/director/actor Vera Drew’s superhero parody, The People’s Joker. Despite a world premiere screening at TIFF 2022, Drew had to pull it due to copyright issues. However, there […]

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(Steve Collins’ latest feature, I’ve Got Issues, might be the first zeitgeist film of the COVID shutdown. The film is available now via Gravitas Ventures. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via […]

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Entertainment is a nightmarish choose your own adventure story where the only thing more horrifying than a never-ending solitude is everything else.

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With The Comedy, Rick Alverson has held up a mirror to a culture terrified of its own reflection.

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