Hammer to Nail

(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Jonathan Marlow takes a journey with...

(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Brad Cook gets tied up with...

Democracy is often filled with chaos, different sides demanding to be heard and those with power and money reluctant to listen. In Emergent City (which I reviewed out of the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival) directors Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur...

Sebastien Vaniček hails from the suburbs of Paris and is an up and coming horror filmmaker with a unique style and tons of passion. He started making short films in 2015, getting around 3 under his belt before making his...

If you thought Heart of Darkness gave you a hard enough look into the challenges of making a masterpiece of cinema in the jungle, try experiencing the frenzied making of Werner Herzog’s 1982 epic Fitzcarraldo. Iconic documentary filmmaker Les Blank’s...

Check out Chris Reed’s Brats movie review, the doc is steaming now on Hulu. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Mental-health therapy can be expensive and last for years; have you considered making a movie about...

In Witches, her latest documentary, director Elizabeth Sankey (Romantic Comedy) brings us into a close examination of her recent traumatic experience as a new mother, during which time she suffered from postpartum depression and anxiety. It’s a very personal movie,...

(The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 5-16, and as always, we have many boots on the ground. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s’s A Desert movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) What lurks beneath the barren, yet...

Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin are certainly A Real Pain to one another, but when is family usually not? Eisenberg writes and directs the new dark comedy, his second directorial venture following 2022’s When You Finish Saving the World. It...

(The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 5-16, and as always, we have many boots on the ground. Check out Melanie Addington’s Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Spoilers: We...