Hammer to Nail

I LOVE BOOSTERS Trailer: Keke Palmer Leads a Gang of Stylish Shoplifters in Boots Riley’s Colorful Heist Comedy
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Following his breakout hit Sorry To Bother You and his much underrated miniseries I’m A Virgo, Boots Riley is back and ready to once again flip the middle finger to American capitalism. With I Love Boosters, he assembles a kick-ass...
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MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW New Trailer: Julia Loktev’s Defiant Documentary Arrives on MUBI This Friday
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Last Fall, the Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) awarded the annual IFSN Advocate Award to Julia Loktev’s 5+ hour documentary, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air In Moscow. Set during the fall and winter of 2021-2022, the documentary...
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A Conversation with Patrick Bresnan & Amy Reid (FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE)
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First They Came for My College is the latest documentary from director Patrick Bresnan (Naked Gardens) and it follows the takeover and transformation of the New College of Florida by the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, and his conservative cronies. Deeply...
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A Conversation with Maya Annik Bedward (BLACK ZOMBIE)
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The documentary Black Zombie (which I also reviewed) marks director Maya Annik Bedward’s feature debut. In the film, Bedward examines how the cinematic zombie has its roots in the Haitian Vodou faith, even though the original term refers to a live person...
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A Conversation with Christian Petzold (MIROIRS NO. 3)
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Christian Petzold was born in Hilden, Germany in 1960. After studying theater at the Free University of Berlin, he attended the German Film and Television Academy Berlin from 1988 to 1994. He directed his first feature in 1995, Pilots. His films...
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A Conversation with Giorgi Koberidze (DRY LEAF)
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In contemporary arthouse cinema, the line between score and sound design is often very blurry, but rarely is it navigated with as much familial intuition as in the work of composer Giorgi Koberidze. Following his work on his brother Alexandre...
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STORMBOUND
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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Stormbound movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) If you’ve seen movies like the 1996 Twister and/or its sequel, the 2024 Twisters,...
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PHOENIX JONES: THE RISE AND FALL OF A REAL LIFE SUPERHERO
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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Phoenix Jones: The Rise and Fall of a Real-Life Superhero movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With...
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A Conversation with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON)
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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are an American filmmaking duo whose partnership spans over two decades. Boden, originally from Newton, Massachusetts, developed a love of movies, English literature, and photography at a young age. She discovered filmmaking as a medium...
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SERLING
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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival ran March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Black Zombie movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Born in 1924, the great Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight...
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