Hammer to Nail

The Oak Cliff Film Festival is back June 20-23 in the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Cliff and not only do they have a lineup sure to make a cinefile smile, HtN Editor Don Lewis (that’s me!) will be there covering the...

(Check our Chris Reed’s movie review of Backspot, in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In Backspot, the feature debut of Canadian director D.W. Waterson, the competition may be fierce, but at the end...

Charlie Plummer finds love and discovers his own version of the American dream in National Anthem. Photographer Luke Gilford directs in his feature-length debut from a script he penned alongside Kevin Best and David Largman Murray. Premiering at last year’s...

As the 77th Cannes Film Festival kicks off today, Francis Ford Coppola has just increased our anticipation with an epic new teaser for his passion piece Megalopolis. His first film in over a decade since 2011’s Twixt, Coppola (a two-time...

Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has been making films since the first decade of the 21st century, and began his rise to international prominence with the 2015 Happy Hour. In 2022, his Drive My Car won the Oscar for Best International...

(The 2024 Maryland Film Festival ran May 2-5 in Baltimore, Maryland, Check our Chris Reed’s movie review of Propriedade which played the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Countries with vast disparities between haves and have-nots...

The relationship of two longtime friends is challenged in writer-director Noah Schamus’ Summer Solstice. Told from a queer and trans perspective, it centers on two reunited college best friends (Bobbi Salvör Menuez and Marianne Rendón), one trans and one straight/cisgender,...

(Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Gasoline Rainbow movie review. The film is in select theaters now before hitting Mubi on May 31. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) While many Americans worry about the future, five teens from...

Beloved by critics and festival goers all over, writer-director India Donaldson’s feature debut Good One is, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated movies of the summer. The only film to screen at both Sundance and Cannes this year,...

Do any New Yorkers have plans this summer? How about chilling under the sun to some of this year’s hot new indie films? Rooftop Films has just announced its lineup for its 2024 Summer Series, which will take place throughout...