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(The 2023 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 in and around Park City, UT and virtually. As always, Hammer to Nail has you covered with tons of movie reviews like Matt Delman’s review of the film Fremont. Seen it? Join...

Babak Jalali was born in Iran and raised in London. He attended film school in London and in 2016 released his feature debut Radio Dreams. The film was a hit at numerous festivals and he quickly followed it up with...

The documentary that took home the Golden Bear at last year’s Berlin Film Festival is finally coming to North American theaters. Nicolas Philibert’s On The Adamant explores life in a Parisian mental health facility along the Seine River. The Adamant...

The blue carpet rolled out on Saturday and many of the year’s best independent films were recognized at the 39th Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Barbara, California. A24’s Past Lives took home Best Feature just moments after its writer-director Celine...

After two weeks of new cinema, the Berlin International Film Festival came to a close with its annual awards ceremony. This year’s festival created buzz with many exciting new titles, among them being Tim Mielants’ opener Small Things Like These...

Veteran director Maggie Greenwald made what many, including her, consider her most-celebrated work, The Ballad of Little Jo, in 1993. Now, 30 years later, courtesy of Kino Lorber, there comes a brand-new Blu-ray release featuring an HD master of the...

(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 takes a wild ride...

One film that made an unexpected splash on the fall festival circuit, which made it one of the most anticipated films of the year, is Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. His newest...

“I think real life is something you need to feel for yourself.” Documentary filmmaker Benjamin Mullinkosson explores China’s rave scene and youth culture in his newest film, The Last Year of Darkness. Set in Chengdu, the capitol city of the...

(Check out Chris Reed’s Io Capitano movie review. The film is in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Here in the third decade of our 21st century, we face multiple global emergencies, from climate change, armed...