Hammer to Nail

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...

(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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

Get ready to strap in this awards season with Oliver Laxe’s unpredictable desert rave thriller, Sirât. Somewhere in the realm of Sorcerer and Mad Max, it made waves after shocking viewers to their core at this year’s Cannes, where it...

(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 Brad Cook crosses the bridge...