Hanley On Film

12/04/2025

Hanley On Film's 10 Best Films of 2025

by critic Jack Hanley (Based on US Release Date)

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Dir. Rungano Nyoni) Ireland, UK, US, Zambia.

11/17/2025

Your Weekly Film Superlatives By Critic and Film Scholar Jack Hanley I. Film I Am Loving This Week Anyone that knows me long enough knows that I will EVENTUALLY corner them at a party to tipsily profess my love of the French New Wave. (I devote a rather large segment

10/17/2025

Apologies, Mary

by Jack Hanley of Kinophilia and HanleyOnFilm.com

10/10/2025

By Correspondents Shay Wescott and Jack Hanley It's finally here... The 16th Annual Horror Film Festival Returns to Telluride, Colorado, October 10–12, 2025! As ever, the official Telluride Horror Show line-up announcement delivers horror fans some of the most anticipated and talked about films of...

10/09/2025

Cynthia, an impassioned disability activist, struggling to stay afloat as her advocacy remains largely overlooked, turns to her brothers with an uncomfortabl...

09/22/2025

In this weeks edition of the Hanley On Film's Filmic 5 we take a LONG WALK with Coop and David; note that the newest final girl might just be a very GOOD BOY with Bryan Bonner and Shay Wescott; give you 7 films to watch for out of TIFF; discuss art and evil with RIEFENSTAHL; and say goodbye to Sundance.

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Your Weekly Film Superlatives By Critic and Film Scholar Jack Hanley Back from a whirlwind of late-summer festivals and too many film panels and midnight screenings to count, HanleyOnFilm is BACK in its natural habitat. The suitcase is still half-unpacked, the festival lanyards are already relics, a...

08/19/2025

Artists- I KNOW you have genuine fears about the repercussions of A.I. in cinema regarding artistic integrity, the erosion of cultural memory, and perhaps MOST troubling: the sick commodification of artistic LEGACY- that marginalized or deceased artists (without consent) will be exhumed digitally, their styles mimicked endlessly, their creative afterlives plagiarized and hijacked for commercial gain...digesting centuries of human originality, chewing it into algorithmic "mix-tape", and spitting it back out hyper-stylized for the younger generations all under the guise of postmodern novelty.

But I KNOW that we can survive this...

Because we have survived it once before. ;)

07/30/2025

In this edition of the Filmic 5, we watch chaos reign with the NY Times Top 100 List; meet Sean Baker's 4-legged editor; let Hollywood ICON Mamie Van Doren play 20 Questions with Jack Hanley; show you the stop-motion horror short that you NEVER knew you needed; and share a moment of unbridled joy as America's most iconic film critics take the fight to Sesame Street.

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Your Weekly Film Superlatives By Critic and Film Scholar Jack Hanley We are thrilled to be back after the short summer festival circuit! Let's talk film... I. Indie Film Moment I Am Loving This Week My partner, producer, and forever collaborator Shay Wescott just sent me this snapshot from the