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WE WERE DANGEROUS

1 week ago | hammertonail.com | Christopher Reed

(Check out Chris Reed’s We Were Dangerousmovie review, It starts April 18 in L.A. before a nationwide rollout. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)In director Josephine Stewart Te-Whiu’s debut feature, We Were Dangerous, the time is 1954 and the place New Zealand. The subject is the subjugation—and forced Christianization—of young women and girls, many of them indigenous Māori, in the name of education and ostensible rehabilitation.
WHEN FALL IS COMING

3 weeks ago | hammertonail.com | Christopher Reed

(Check out Chris Reed’s When Fall Is Comingmovie review, It starts April 4 at Film Forum before a nationwide rollout. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)When Fall Is Coming, the new film from French director François Ozon (The Crime Is Mine), continues the cineaste’s long tradition of crafting complicated onscreen women and hiring excellent actresses to play them.
THE BATTLE OF WALLIS ISLAND

3 weeks ago | hammertonail.com | Christopher Reed

(Check out Chris Reed’s The Ballad of Wallis Island movie review, it’s in theaters now via Focus Features. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)An adaptation of a 2007 short film from the same creative team (director, writers/co-stars), James Griffiths’ The Ballad of Wallis Island is a disarmingly sweet meditation on loss, grief, and healing.
A Conversation with Leni Huyghe & Leonie Buysse (REAL FACES)

1 month ago | hammertonail.com | Christopher Reed

Belgian director Leni Huyghe just premiered her debut feature, Real Faces, at SXSW 2025 (where I reviewed it). The film follows its two protagonists, Julia (Leonie Buysse) and Eliot (Gorges Ocloo), as they separately and together navigate conflicts on their road to self-actualization.
THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THIEF

1 month ago | hammertonail.com | Brad Cook

(We 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, “The Curbside Criterion” continues where HtN staff can trot out thoughts on the finest films ever made.
REAL FACES

1 month ago | hammertonail.com | Christopher Reed

(The 2025 SXSW Film & TV conference, ran March 7-15, and HtN has you covered with great coverage like Chris Reed’s Real Facesmovie review.
I'M CARL LEWIS!

1 month ago | hammertonail.com | Christopher Reed

(The 2025 SXSW Film & TV conference, runs March 7-15, and HtN has you covered with great movie reviews like Chris Reed’s look at the doc I’m Carl Lewis. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)The new documentary I’m Carl Lewis!—from directors Julie Anderson (Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World) and Chris Hay (Unbreakable: England 2003)—provides a mostly in-depth look at the titular sportsman, in all his glory and then some.
HtN Celebrates ANORA & Sean Baker's Oscar wins!

1 month ago | hammertonail.com | Don R. Lewis

(Photo credit Mike Coppola/Getty Images)After truly independent filmmaker Sean Baker won the freeking Palme d’Or at Cannes this year, he was fast-tracked to Oscar nominations galore! Amazing!Tonight, Baker won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Editing and Directing as well as Best Picture. Mikey Madison also won Best Actress for the lead role in the film.
A Conversation with Arnaud Desplechin (SPECTATEURS!)

1 month ago | hammertonail.com | Rory O'Connor

“You know, you’re Irish, so when I’m saying Dédalus you’re probably thinking Joyce.” It’s early December in Avelino and Arnaud Desplechin isn’t really talking A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The French director’s latest, Spectateurs!, reintroduces the his own Dédalus: an intrepid cinephile who already appeared at various ages, occasionally in the form of Mathieu Amalric, in My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument (1998), A Christmas Tale (2008) and My Golden Days (2015).
LOUDER THAN YOU THINK: A LO-FI HISTORY OF GARY YOUNG AND PAVEMENT

2 months ago | hammertonail.com | Don R. Lewis

(Check out Don Lewis’s movie review of Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History of Gary and Pavement Jed I. Rosenberg’s doc on the early days of the band Pavement. It’s available now to own or stream via Factory 25. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)I am a pretty good sleeper these days but for some reason, I was having trouble falling asleep for like, 4 hours one night.