Following its appearance at last year’s New York Film Festival, Ardak Amirkulov’s obscure, rarely screened The Fall of Otrar (restored in conjunction with Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project) begins a theatrical run on August 1 at Film at Lincoln Center....
The film’s action sequences showcase Gunn’s gift for large-scale but coherent spectacle. The post ‘Superman’ Review: James Gunn Pledges Winning Allegiance to a Superhero’s Essential Goodness appeared first on Slant Magazine.
(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...
The field of Pardo d’Oro hopefuls will include the likes of Radu Jude, Alexandre Koberidze, Ben Rivers, Maureen Fazendeiro and (surprise surprise) Abdellatif Kechiche this year. Locarno’s artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro has programmed what on paper looks like a...
Nothing beats the heat like a little horror. Or a lot. Or how about 11 nights of "pure unfiltered terror"? The 11th edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival will offer all that, in-person in South Florida from August 7-17,...
The projects for the upcoming Venice Gap-Financing Market have been unveiled (32 feature-length fiction) and there’ll be several listed here projects that we’ll discuss at length next year when they start hitting the festival circuit of 2026 and especially, 2027....
The host of an 'all-things-creepy' podcast moves into her mother's house and begins to receive anonymous recordings of a couple spiraling into madness. As she plays them, she realizes the woman's story is a mirror of her own and each...