Viola Davis Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/viola-davis/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:33:31 +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 Viola Davis Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/viola-davis/ 32 32 HtN’s Top 20 Most Anticipated Films at TIFF ’22 https://www.hammertonail.com/features/tiff-22-best/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:05:25 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37866

The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) was founded in 1976 and since then has become one of the world’s premier showcases of quality films of all kinds, be they large event movies, microbudget flicks, and everything in between. Given […]

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Day one of the TIFF Industry Conference kicked off with Master Class featuring Viola Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon speaking on their production company and the journey of normalizing Black stories in a system not designed for it. The […]

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]]> Jim Brunzell’s 2018 Fantastic Fest Primer https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/comedy/brunzell-2018-fantastic-fest/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:32:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30156 Some cinephiles would say it’s “the most wonderful time of the year.” The fall movie festival season begun a few weeks ago with Venice, Telluride, and Toronto unveiling their star-studded and Oscar-baiting films, but there are still a few more […]

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]]> HtN is Headed to the Toronto International Film Festival! https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/2018-tiff-preview/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:38:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30066 Founded in 1976 as the Festival of Festivals, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took on its current name in 1995. Held annually in September, the festival is often a prime showcase for the artistically ambitious films that dominate the […]

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]]> PARIAH https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/pariah-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/pariah-film-review/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:33:26 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14395

With Pariah, a buoyant tale of a young, middle-class New York lesbian’s tough coming-of-age amid the class and cultural proxy battles that simmer within black America, lauded newcomer Dee Rees has made one of 2011's most unlikely and richly welcomed directorial debuts.

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