Hammer to Nail

3 weeks ago | hammertonail.com | Christopher Reed

(Check out Chris Reed’s Sister Midnight movie review. The film hits NYC theaters Friday, May 16 and expands in the upcoming weeks. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)The trailer for writer-director Karan Kandhari’s feature debut, Sister Midnight, promises quirky humor à la Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki (Fallen Leaves), with deadpan emotions wedded to outlandish hijinks.

3 weeks ago | hammertonail.com | Lauren Wissot

(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted movie review. The film hit theaters in L.A. and NY May9 and will make it’s way across the U.S. soon. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson’s Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Paintedstars three aging musicians living the good life in a San Fernando Valley bachelor pad (with a rundown pool in need of painting).

1 month ago | hammertonail.com | Christopher Reed

(Check out Chris Reed’s Two to One movie review. The film hits UK theaters Friday, May 2. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)Actress-turned-director Natja Brunckhorst (Alles in bester Ordnung) sets her second feature, Two to One, at the time of German Reunification following the collapse of Eastern European communism.

1 month ago | hammertonail.com | Jessica Baxter

(Check out Jessica Baxter’s I Know Catherine, the Log Lady movie review. It’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)You probably DO know Catherine, the Log Lady. She was an actress for stage and screen, a camera operator for John Cassavetes, and a frequent collaborator with a little auteur you may have heard of called David Lynch. She also played a signature character in Lynch’s seminal TV show, Twin Peaks.

1 month 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.