Hammer to Nail

This seems to be the year the Western genre makes a resurgence, especially with the first two parts of Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga and Pedro Almodover’s short film A Strange Way of Life (now streaming on Netflix). Now,...

The Cronenberg legacy continues! Caitlin Cronenberg, the daughter of body horror icon David Cronenberg and sister of Infinity Pool and Possessor helmer Brandon Cronenberg, steps behind the camera for her feature debut. Humane is a comedy-thriller that centers on a...

(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival hosted nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Chris Reed’s The Queen of My Dreams movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Director Fawzi Mirza...

What if Friday the 13th or A Nightmare on Elm Street was told from the POV of Jason and Freddy? Writer-director Chris Nash’s feature debut In A Violent Nature puts us in the mind of an undead killer Johnny (Ry...

If you love board games, have I got a film for you! In The Hobby, which just premiered at SXSW 2024 (where I reviewed it), director Simon Ennis (Lunarcy!) explores his newfound enthusiasm for, well, “the hobby” in a celebratory...

Colin Burgess inhabits the self-centered Drew in Ryan Martin Brown’s Free Time, a rambunctious comedy that builds to a generational fever. Drew decides to quit his job and embrace life, but when a video of him chewing out his old...

In the halcyon past of 1954, from the bucolic landscapes of New Zealand, We Were Dangerous opens with the daring escape bid of two Maori girls – Nellie (Erana James) and Daisy (Manaia Hall) – from a school catering to wayward souls. Their flight foiled, the girls...

(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival hosted nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Chris Reed’s Wakhri movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In 2016 in Pakistan, social-media star...

(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival will host nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Bears Rebecca Fonté’s Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on...

(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival will host nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Tristan Kneschke’s Resynator movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) For anyone who produces electronic music,...