Hammer to Nail

Film Independent has announced the nominations for the 40th Annual Independent Spirit Awards, crowning this year’s achievements in independent film. After taking place for years in the Santa Monica tent, the ceremony will now be held at the Hollywood Palladium...

In Traces of Home, filmmaker Colette Ghunim takes her parents back to the homes they were forced to leave as children. Her mother returns to her childhood home in Mexico City, and her father finds the home he fled in...

(Check out HtN Editor Don R. Lewis’s You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine movie review, it’s rolling out across theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) For fans of the singer-songwriter genre, the last...

Following his haunting, mythical, and magnificent epic The Green Knight, former HtN contributor David Lowery has another enchanting nailbiter up his sleeve for us this coming spring. Mother Mary, which he wrote and directed, is a surreal thriller set in...

(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Suburban Fury movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury has been in the works for some time. In fact, the team sent out a press release all the way back...

Writer and director Clint Bentley doesn’t make films about the exceptional. He finds the exceptional in the ordinary. Stories about jockeys past their prime, incarcerated men staging plays, and now, with Train Dreams, an Idaho logger whose entire life unfolds...

When producer and director Katie Jacobs moved into a second-floor unit on East 2nd Street in New York City she didn’t know what she was getting into. Finding herself sandwiched between two legendary artists living on the first and third...

(Check out Brandon Wilson’s Benita movie review, it opens today for a week-long release at Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film, from Nov. 28 to Dec. 4 before a wider rollout. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)...

Shelby Oaks marks the feature directorial debut of Chris Stuckmann, the YouTube film critic whose YouTube channel has amassed over 2 million subscribers. The film, which became the highest-funded horror film in Kickstarter history with nearly $1.4 million raised, including...

(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Stray Bodies movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Though Elina Psykou’s Son of Sofia took top honors in the International Narrative section back at Tribeca 2017, the acclaimed Greek director’s first documentary, last...