In his new documentary, Holding Liat, director Brandon Kramer follows an American-Israeli family in the middle of the worst crisis imaginable: the kidnapping of relatives on October 7, 2023, by member...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s The Diary of a Ch...

(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s NAZA movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A documentary can frustrate. A documentary can potentially motiva...

(Check out Anders Ljung’s Primetime movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is something almost perverse about Robert Pattinson spend...

((Check out Anders Ljung’s 76 Days Adrift movie review, it’s available on VOD via Apple TV now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is an inherent intimacy to a surv...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Idda movie review ...

Pulp fans are a patient people. We’ve waited years between scant albums and tours. Their most recent album More, is only their 8th LP since they formed as teenagers in Sheffield, England in 1978. It w...

Having spent over a decade and a half mining cinematic nonfiction gems on the festival beat, only a handful of doc fests remain on my bucket list (Thessaloniki, I’m available). Which is why it was a b...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Josephine movie rev...

(Check out Jessica Baxter’s Pulp: What Do You Do for An Encore? movie review, it hits VOD Friday, September 25. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Garth Jennings remember...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s The Daughters of Ab...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Elsinore movie revi...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) ran September 10-20 and HtN had boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Anchors Aweigh  m...

Editor-at-large Matt Delman spoke with THE SCOUT writer-director Paula Gonzalez-Nasser and star Mimi Davila about filming in the middle of NYC and blending life experiences into film. Check out his in...

In The Smell of Apples, South African director John Trengrove examines the dawning consciousness of an Afrikaner boy as he begins to realize the horrors of the apartheid system. An adaptation of the 1...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Misty Green movi...

(The 2026 Venice Film Festival ran September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like M.J. O’Toole’s Woman Unknown movie review. Seen it? Join ...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Darlene Love: I Kn...

(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s The History of Concrete movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “The History of Concrete? That doesn’t sound v...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Ladies and Gentl...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s The Only Living Pi...

(The 2026 Venice Film Festival ran September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like Lé Baltar’s The Remotes movie review. Seen it? Join the c...

With his latest film, Wild Wild East, Polish director Jan Holoubek has combined the Western with a noirish thriller and thrown the mix into the middle of World War II. The year is 1943, and a mysterio...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s Trash Mountain m...

(The 2026 Venice Film Festival ran September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like M.J. O’Toole’s The Spiral movie review. Seen it? Join the...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Edward Said: Betwe...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Clara Cuccaro’s A Long Winter mo...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s The Smell of Apple...

(The 2026 Venice Film Festival runs September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like Lé Baltar’s One Minute To Midnight movie review. Seen it...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reeds’s Wild Wild East mov...

(Check out Anders Ljung’s Hope movie review, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is a moment somewhere within the relentless carnage of Na Hong...

(The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Brandon Wilson’s Union Town movi...

(MUSIC BY RYUICHI SAKAMOTO [series] September 11-12 at the Japan Society HQ [333 East 47th St., one block from the United Nations) Admittedly, New York has much to offer. The Dream House (of the MELA ...

The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) runs September 10-20 and HtN has boots on the ground covering all the best indie films they have to offer. Check out Chris Reed’s Ha-Chan, Shake Your ...

(The 2026 Venice Film Festival runs September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like M.J. O’Toole’s Furies movie review. Seen it? Join the co...

“Enjoy it those of you who are alive. The world is fantastic.” — (at the time) oldest person Maria Branyas Morera [via social media] A decade in the making—from July 2015 to July 2025—or a lifetime. S...

The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) marked its 50th anniversary last year and now is back again, running September 10-20, with 293 films (shorts and features) in its official slate. As a...

In 1989, Julie Thayer traveled to the Swiss Alps looking for something few people would willingly seek: the destruction of her own ego. There, she joined U.G. Krishnamurti, the radical Indian anti-gur...

(Check out Anders Ljung’s The Natural State movie review, fresh from the 2026Telluride Film Festival. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In 1989, wealthy New York mother ...

(The 2026 Venice Film Festival runs September 2-12 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like M.J. O’Toole’s Too Much Sugar movie review. Seen it? Joi...

(The 2026 Venice Film Festival runs September 2-9 on the island of the Lido di Venezia (Venice Lido) in Italy. HtN has coverage coming in like M.J. O’Toole’s Burgundy movie review. Seen it? Join the c...

Mas Bouzidi’s Concessions is a love letter to movie theaters wrapped in the melancholy of their disappearance. Shot entirely on 16mm at the Lafayette Theater in upstate New York, the film chronicles t...

The Venice Film Festival begins today and HTN’s very own M.J. O’Toole is on the Lido, taking in world premieres and all the Italian pasta he can eat. Hopefully the films this year will be as spicy as ...

(Check out Chris Reed’s Buddy review,  it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) I was not a child in the 1990s, nor did I have children of my own, but I w...

The 9th Annual Lonely Seal Film Festival kicks off Thursday, August 27 and runs through Sunday, August 30 at the Regent Theater in Arlington, Massachusetts which is less than 30 minutes from Boston.  ...

(Check out Anders Ljungs Maddie’s Secret review, it’s available on VOD now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There is something almost miraculous about the tonal balanc...

(Check out Chris Reed’s Colony, it’s in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In the video game and TV series The Last of Us, humans are infected by the Cordyc...

Before this year’s Vashon Island Film Festival began, I described the experience as “Hollywood on an island for a weekend.” After spending another weekend on Vashon, I think I’ll stick with that. The ...

(The Vashon Island Film Festival ran August 13–16 for its fifth year. Check out Alan Motley’s Labrador: Autopsy of Silence movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on...

(The Vashon Island Film Festival ran August 13–16 for its fifth year. Check out Alan Motley’s The Life We Leave movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letter...