The B-Side – Kevin Costner: Part II (with Chadd Harbold)
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...
Dan Mecca
Touch Review: A Lovely Romantic Drama About Finding One’s Past in the Present
Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur is a rare sort these days. Here is a director who has built a successful, decades-long career making solid, genre-heavy p...
The B-Side – Chris Pine
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...
The Nature of Love Review: A Charming, Sexy Take on a Tale as Old as Time
Filmmaker Monia Chokri loves a zoom lens. Such is the fun aesthetic of her third feature The Nature of Love. Often the image jumps forwards or backwards, accen...
Mother, Couch Review: Ewan McGregor Leads a Strange, Pervasive Familial Phantasmagoria
"I've been bleeding my whole life."
Mother, Couch is a boiling point of a picture. Written and directed by Niclas Larsson (and based on Jerker Virdborg's n...
A Sacrifice Review: Eric Bana and Sadie Sink Lead an Effective Psychological Thriller
"We're all so fucked, right." So says Mazzy (Sadie Sink), a young woman visiting her father Ben (Eric Bana). This observation matches the dreadful tone of the ...
The B-Side – In Conversation with Daniel Waters on Hudson Hawk & More
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about filmmakers! Not the films that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made...
The B-Side – Bruce Willis (with Jen Johans)
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...
The B-Side – Martin Scorsese (with Jake Kring-Schreifels)
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...
Ezra Review: An Honest Family Portrait With Some Third-Act Troubles
Let's start here: watching Bobby Cannavale and Robert De Niro argue on a New York City street while cars angrily beep their horns is electric. Truly exhilarati...
Dan Mecca
Managing Editor
Dan Mecca is the co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a producer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh. He watches a lot of movies and tracks them on Letterboxd.