Dan Mecca

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‘Twelve’ Reasons To Give Joel Schumacher’s New Film A Chance

There's been a considerable amount of preliminary backlash against Joel Schumacher's upcoming young-rich-people drug drama Twelve, starring Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford as a drug dealer with a heart of gold and an especially gravelly Kiefer Sutherland as the narrator....
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Michael Mann To ‘Break Dawn’

With the unexpected employ of David Slade behind the third Twilight film, Eclipse, plus the oddly violent and perverse subject matter of Stephanie Meyer's f...
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[Review] Greenberg

Focus Features | USA | 107 mins There's never a moment in Noah Baumbach's new film in which we openly root for Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), the film's...
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[Review] Hot Tub Time Machine

Certainly, by all accounts, the best film ever made about a hot tub time machine, this is a dumb, dirty, disastrously-made comic gem that finds a sloppy bal...

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.