By "those kind of movies" I mean those films that are pseudo-smart and pseudo-deep, presenting paper-thin messages as an excuse for rampant style and gratuitous everything: sex, violence and the like. Films like [...]...
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog, USA/Germany)
Werner Herzog had never been an easy director in a narrative sense, and that's a large part ...
Dick Cook, the chairman at Walt Disney Studios for the last 38 years, has left "effective immediately," according to Variety.
After a string of recent bo...
As reported in Variety, Universal Pictures has decided it "will not spend money for the rest of the year to advance development projects. Essentially, if yo...
By way of actress/producer Mariel Hemingway (granddaughter of Ernest), Hemingway's posthumous Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast (published in 1964) is set to...
Passenger Side (Matt Bissonnette, Canada)
This little indie comes on like gangbusters by way of comedy - the first 40 minutes consists of near constant sar...
The most recent product of the Almodovar assembly line is Broken Embraces, a lush tragic romance starring an especially beautiful Penelope Cruz as Lena and ...
What must the guy in the photo above thinking? He's got a studio hit (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) on his hands and a license to make whatever he wants; as ...
"Good artists borrow, great artists steal." Many have said it, many more have employed it in their work. Shakespeare took many of his plays' plots from popular vocal stories and historical figures, Picasso took from African art styles (allegedly) and Brian De Palma continues to take from Hitchcock [...]...
Having recently found out that Martin Scorcese's Shutter Island, starring Leo DiCaprio, will not come out until February, this beautifully elusive little te...
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.
