Germany's Oscar submission to the 99th Academy Awards is not your typical look at life after loss. Writer-director Sandra Wollner's third feature premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival where it won the top Un Certain Regard prize. It stars

(Check out Chris Reed’s Club Kid movie review, it’s in theaters Friday, November 6 via A24. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There have been many films about irresponsible would-be adults suddenly forced to care for a

(Here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week Jonathan Marlow lifts off with

I watched (and reviewed) Maiken Baird’s latest documentary, Edward Said: Between Worlds, at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is an engaging and thorough profile of the late, great academic and proud Palestinian advocate, author of books such

I watched (and reviewed) Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s new film, Wicker, at the 2026 Middleburg Film Festival. The movie stars, among others, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Debicki, Peter Dinklage, and Alexander Skarsgård. Set in a medieval village, Wicker follows

Impressively ambitious in scope, Josh Fox’s humbly titled The Welcome Table finds the environmental activist-filmmaker-writer-musician on a globetrotting journey across six continents, spotlighting the stories of climate refugees. The Oscar-nominated multihyphenate (2010’s Gasland) then brings this multicultural bunch together around

Germany's Oscar submission to the 99th Academy Awards is not your typical look at life after loss. Writer-director Sandra Wollner's third feature premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival where it won the top Un Certain Regard prize. It stars

A year after going the big-budget filmmaking route with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Koganada is going back to his indie roots with a more spontaneous and experimental drama. The Columbus and After Yang director returned to Sundance earlier this

One film that came out of nowhere and set the film community on fire is Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's documentary, You Can See Everything. Announced as a surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, the film follows Fielder