Hammer to Nail

The Venice Film Festival begins today and HTN’s very own M.J. O’Toole is on the Lido, taking in world premieres and all the Italian pasta he can eat. Hopefully the films this year will be as spicy as the arugula,...

Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days) returned to Cannes this year with his newest intense drama, and left with his second Palme d’Or. Set in a Norwegian coastal town, Fjord stars Sebastian Stan and Renate...

The 9th Annual Lonely Seal Film Festival kicks off Thursday, August 27 and runs through Sunday, August 30 at the Regent Theater in Arlington, Massachusetts which is less than 30 minutes from Boston.  This festival, focused on four days of...

(Check out Anders Ljungs Maddie’s Secret review, it’s available on VOD now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is something almost miraculous about the tonal balancing act of Maddie’s Secret. John Early’s feature directorial debut is...

After taking the world by storm with their Oscar-winning documentary and IFSN Advocate Award winner No Other Land, two of the co-directors, Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, are bringing a new look at the Gazan genocide to the 83rd Venice...

One of the biggest cinematic gems this year is a conspiracy thriller of sorts that dabbles in some form of time travel. Writer-directors Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s Chronovisor follows a French academic (played by real-life professor Anne-Laure Sellier) holed...

One film that premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes this year got lots more buzz than most films in competition. Club Kid, the directorial debut of Jordan Firstman (I Love LA; Rotting in the Sun) may just be the...

Before this year’s Vashon Island Film Festival began, I described the experience as “Hollywood on an island for a weekend.” After spending another weekend on Vashon, I think I’ll stick with that. The fifth annual Vashon Island Film Festival came...

(The Vashon Island Film Festival runs August 13–16 for its fifth year. Check out Alan Motley’s Aanikoobijigan movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is a point when the language used to describe...

One of the most shocking, sensational films of twentieth-century cinema has gotten the 4K restoration treatment. The first-ever release from Warner Bros’ new indie label Clockwork (with new films by Sean Baker, Mary Bronstein, and Park Chan-wook in progress) will...