Hammer to Nail

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,...

Returning for its 13th edition, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival marks the emergence of strong breakout international cinema. From March 13-17, it will screen over three dozen eclectic films, both features and shorts, making their New York...

The life and mind of the late, boundary-pushing Southern writer Flannery O’Connor have been given the biopic treatment thanks to director Ethan Hawke. Maya Hawke stars as the celebrated writer going through a moment in her life where she tries...

Returning for its 13th edition, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival marks the emergence of strong breakout international cinema. From March 13-17, it will screen over three dozen eclectic films, both features and shorts, making their New...

(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 My Sextortation Diary movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) According to one...

(For its 31st edition, the SXSW Film & TV Festival will host nine days of screenings from March 8-16, 2024. Check out Melanie Addington’s This Is a Film About the Black Keys movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A tightly edited...

Millennial complexes and BDSM go hand-in-hand in writer-director/actor Joanna Arnow’s comedy The Feeling That The Time for Doing Something Has Passed. Arnow stars as Ann, a 30-something New Yorker navigating her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome...