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BACKSIDE

2 weeks ago | hammertonail.com | Christopher Reed

(The Tribeca Festival runs June 4-15 in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood and Hammer to Nail has boots on the ground! Check out Chris Reeds’s Backside movie review fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.)For reasons that remain a bit of a mystery to me, I love to watch horse racing (despite my actual fear of the animal, given its size). Every year, when Triple Crown season dawns, I avidly revisit my favorite contests of yore.
THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: BASQUIAT

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, our new addition to the site, “The Curbside Criterion” continues where HtN staff can trot out thoughts on the finest films ever made. This week Brad Cook dives into the new 4K Ultra HD release of Basquiat, Julian Schnabel’s lovely ode to the young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.)Biopics can be tricky.
SISTER MIDNIGHT

1 month 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.
SWAMP DOGG GETS HIS POOL PAINTED

1 month 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).
TWO TO ONE

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.
I KNOW CATHERINE, THE LOG LADY

2 months 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.
WE WERE DANGEROUS

2 months 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

2 months 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

Mar 28, 2025 | 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)

Mar 25, 2025 | 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.