Hammer to Nail

“The night has countless faces. And there is a man who peers into them one by one.” Manga comes to life in a surprise new short from Japanese auteur Takashi Miike. Working at a tireless pace, the filmmaker behind Audition,...

(Rendez-vous with French Cinema takes place at Film at Lincoln Center through Sunday, March 10. M.J. O’Toole has this movie review of On The Adamant which plays on Friday, March 8. It will be released in U.S. theaters on March...

Colman Domingo seems to be on a roll this year. Ahead of Oscars night and his Best Actor nom for Rustin, A24 has just released the official trailer for his touching new drama Sing Sing. Directed by Greg Kwedar with...

One film that has certainly made waves over the past few years is writer/director/actor Vera Drew’s superhero parody, The People’s Joker. Despite a world premiere screening at TIFF 2022, Drew had to pull it due to copyright issues. However, there...

How to Have Sex was written and directed by Molly Manning Walker. The film stars Mia McKenna-Bruce as a teenager on a spring break trip with her mates. It played in the Cannes film festival in the Un Certain Regard...

The 2024 Academy Awards take place on Sunday, March 10, and as usual there are 15 nominated short films across three categories: animation, documentary, and live action. As I do every year for Hammer to Nail, I watch all of...

Ten years ago, David and Nathan Zellner premiered a film at Sundance about the urban legend of a Japanese woman who died trying to find the fictional Fargo suitcase full of cash. That film became their breakout hit Kumiko, The...

The New Directors/New Films festival has just announced the lineup of new breakout films for its 53rd edition. The annual festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, will take place from April 3 to April 14...

“It was sort of like that scene in Coming to America, where Eddie Murphy and Semmi are in the bar interviewing all the different women”: D. Smith on her Sundance-winning Kokomo City At its heart, D. Smith’s 2023 Sundance-winning (NEXT Innovator...

In HtN’s review of Jane Schoenbrun’s feature directorial debut We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, Mike S. Ryan wrote “One gets a sense right away that the filmmaker understands that a personal story structure is essential to a unique...