Jane Alexander has one of those careers that seems impossible. Four Academy Award nominations in fourteen years. A Tony Award in 1969 for the Howard Sackler pl...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we usually talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones t...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 6.
There is an unbridled honesty to An...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
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There's a melancholy to Tobias Nölle and Loran Bonnardot's Tristan Forever that is comforting. A lingering, existential question hangs over everything: where d...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. And so...
What exactly is artificial intelligence? Where does it come from? And precisely how powerful is (or will) it become? Valerie Veatch's documentary Ghost in the ...
Carousel is a movie out of time. Working with Chris Pine and Jenny Slate, writer-director Rachel Lambert has constructed a delicate, patient, slice-of-life pic...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
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The extended opening of The Incomer, written and directed by Louis Paxton, is very funny and engaging. That the film never reaches those heights again is somet...
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.
