Someone should have told Steve Lopez that his story just wasn't that interesting. Granted, discovering a musical prodigy on the streets of L.A. is quite zesty...
By Dan Mecca
Upping the adrenaline-fueled ante of its cult-hit predecessor,Crank: High Voltage wastes little time early on setting up anything like plot or c...
By Dan Mecca
Within the first five minutes of 17 Again teen-heartthrob Zac Efron finds an excuse to get shirtless and perform an impressive dance routine. Ne...
As reported in Variety, Recent Oscar nominee and eternal character actor Richard Jenkins (The Visitor, Step Brothers) has signed up for the film adaptation of...
Writer/Director Mike Judge has given us cult fave Office Space and the underappreciated Idiocracy. Here is a trailer for his new film, starring Jason Bateman,...
By Dan Mecca
On Monday, Variety confirmed that Fox News entertainment blogger Roger Friedman was fired by the company after publishing an early review of the...
As most reading probably already know, Jay Leno is not retiring but rather moving up earlier in the night to a daily 10 p.m. spot, washing away NBC's entire l...
By Dan Mecca
Not that Eurocentrism has ever really gone away, but at least high-profile filmmakers were trying to conceal it with "noble" films like Crash. H...
As Variety reports, rom-com whore, all-around decent actor and attractive male movie star Matthew McConaughey is set to star in Lakeshore Entertainment's The ...
By Dan Mecca
If honesty is the best quality, Adventureland is the gem of the cinematic year so far. Written and directed by Greg Mottola (the guy who dir...
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.
