MOVIES ON BIG SCREENS – May 21-24, 2009
While Cannes is in the home stretch, there are still a few more days of competition films to unveil, not to mention the awards themselves. But let us not forget that in New York City, every night feels...
View ArticleDVD RELEASES 2009/11/17
Well, whaddya know, Thanksgiving’s come early this year, as today brings us the home video release of two of the best new American films of 2009. One is a fiction comedy that plays like a documentary,...
View ArticleTHE 2009 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS
Welcome to the second annual Hammer to Nail Awards! The ever-increasing torrent of end-of-the-year lists and trophies can become an overwhelming blur, which is just one of the reasons why we here at...
View ArticleTHE TOP 25 FILMS OF THE DECADE (2000-2009)
Before we begin, let us acknowledge that when it comes to “best of” lists, this year has quickly devolved into that loud lush at the end of the bar who won’t stop yapping. Though we’ve already...
View ArticleDVD RELEASES – 2010/2/23
This is one of those weeks when the number of movies I can personally recommend pales in comparison to those new releases that I haven’t actually seen but plan to add to my Netflix queue. Highly...
View ArticleTRUE/FALSE 2010 PART ONE – A Festival Apart
In a free local Missouri paper called VOX Magazine, reporter Aaron Channon writes, “The winter air in Columbia is not charged with the taste of salt water off the Mediterranean, and George Clooney will...
View ArticleTRAFFIC
Traffic is a large story built on small moments that are often as devastating on their own as they are in tandem with one another.
View ArticleA Conversation With Daniel Cockburn (YOU ARE HERE)
“Peanuts is this world of people in isolationist fantasies,” Canadian video artist/feature filmmaker Daniel Cockburn says over the course of a conversation. He brings up Charlie Brown and Peanuts after...
View ArticleA Conversation With Megan Griffiths (LUCKY THEM)
(Lucky Them world premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and is now available on VOD through IFC Films. It opened theatrically in NYC on May 30, 2014, and opens in Los Angeles on...
View ArticleTHE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THE GRADUATE
(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...
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