Hammer to Nail

Never count out Jim Cummings. The multi-hyphenate talent who broke out in 2016 with his SXSW winner Thunder Road knows how to make a film hilarious, gripping, and emotional in so many unexpected ways. After following up his feature debut...

The decades-long partnership of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is endearingly profiled in the new documentary Merchant Ivory. The titular words are not only synonymous with the legendary duo, but also the string of iconic, sophisticated period pieces...

Hot on the heels of the underdog breakout film of the summer, Longlegs, Neon is set to release another hotly anticipated horror film with the eerie looking Cuckoo starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, directed by Tilman Singer. Get ready, it’s...

Hammer to Nail loves us some some Zach Clark weirdness! His latest film The Becomers hits theaters and VOD Tuesday, September 24 from Dark Star Pictures. Here’s the official synopsis: Forced to flee their dying planet, two body-snatching alien lovers arrive...

No one likes being 14. That age just sucks. Unless you happen to be the lead character on the Disney show, or arguably the actor portraying that lead character, real life conflicts come at you from every angle and never...

How do you hang onto your values while everything around you is changing? Monica Sorelle’s touching and observant feature debut Mountains centers on a Haitian immigrant family living in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood trying to pursue their dreams, while gentrification...

After making one of the most innovative animated films with the Oscar-nominated I Lost My Body, Jérémy Clapin returns with his live-action debut that is just as imaginative, but with more chills. Meanwhile On Earth stars newcomer Megan Northam as...

While it may be a while before we see his portrayal of Donald Trump in The Apprentice stateside, Sebastian Stan delivers one of the best performances of the year in A Different Man. Written and directed by Aaron Schimberg (Chained...

Iconic French sci-fi animator René Laloux (Fantastic Planet) is having another one of his hidden gems restored by Janus Films later this month. His 1982 tale The Time Masters incorporates Mœbius’ trippy, mindblowing design in this story of a young...

Following up his Cannes Film Festival-winning sensation BPM (Beats Per Minute), which showcased AIDS activism in 1990s France, writer-director Robin Campillo is back with an intimate new drama. Red Island, based on the director’s childhood, is a coming-of-age story that...