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HI-FIVE
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(The 2025 London Korean Film Festival runs November 5-18 and Hammer to Nail is excited to welcome writer Nathan Sartain to the team providing boots on the ground coverage. Check out his Hi-Five movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd...
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NUREMBERG
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(Check out Chris Reed’s Nuremberg movie review, it’s in theaters now! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) When the Allied forces defeated the Nazis to end the European side of World War II, they then had to decide what...
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RESURRECTION Trailer: Bi Gan’s Fantasia of Cinema & Dreams Arrives This Winter
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You haven’t seen anything quite like Bi Gan’s Resurrection. His first feature film since 2018’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the writer-director ventures into bolder, more ambitious territory here in this anthology sci-fi film, which divides the narrative into six...
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FROSTED WINDOW
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(The 2025 London Korean Film Festival runs November 5-18 and Hammer to Nail is excited to welcome writer Nathan Sartain to the team providing boots on the ground coverage. Check out his Frosted Window movie review. Seen it? Join the...
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THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE Teaser: Amanda Seyfried Builds a Utopia of Faith in Mona Fastvold’s Historical Musical
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After co-writing last year’s VistaVision epic The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet go further back in time for their latest collaboration, which musically retells the origins of a colonial religious movement. The Testament of Ann Lee, with Fastvold at...
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TENSHI NO TAMAGO [ANGEL’S EGG]
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(The fortieth anniversary of the far-too-little-seen animated epic Tenshi no Tamago (Angel’s Egg) in its highly-anticipated 4K remaster, opening theatrically 19-November-2025. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Angel or devil? I don’t care. For in front...
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ATROPIA Trailer: Alia Shawkat & Callum Turner Start a Simulated War Zone Fling in Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner
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Alia Shawkat is an aspiring actress honing her craft in a very unlikely setting: Atropia! Model and actress Hailey Benton Gates wrote and directed the dark comedy that took home the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year’s...
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A Conversation with Kleber Mendonça Filho (THE SECRET AGENT)
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Winner of the Best Director and Best Actor awards at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, The Secret Agent, from Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau), takes place in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship. It was a time of violence and...
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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THE UNINVITED
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(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 Jonathan Marlow checks in to...
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THE LOVE THAT REMAINS Trailer: Hlynur Pálmason’s Compassionate Drama Captures a Fractured Family Living & Loving
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Following his magnificently bleak period piece Godland, writer-director Hlynur Pálmason offers a reprieve from the overcast skies of human despair with his compassionate new family drama, The Love That Remains. Set in his native Iceland and shot on 35mm film...
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