Let's start here: the production design in Tom Gustafson's Glitter & Doom is impeccable, colorful, and memorable. Too often these days films lack an advent...
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...
Golden Years, written by Petra Volpe and directed by Barbara Kulcsar, is an incredibly simple, comfortable piece of work. It concerns the plight of a long-marr...
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...
Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber's War Game documents a nifty six-hour exercise in roleplay, commencing on the anniversary of the January 6 United States Capitol att...
The first word that comes to mind when thinking of how to write about Thea Hvistendahl's Handling the Undead is: dread. To expand: slow, ponderous dread. Writt...
Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story recounts and examines the incredibly compelling, tragic, redemptive story of...
When you talk about John Sayles, do you talk about America? Watching and examining his beautiful tapestry of films, this reveals itself an easy question to ask...
"Police power is immediate power." These opening words from Redditt Hudson––former police officer and co-founder of the National Coalition of Law Enforcement O...
There are few things better than when a good idea blossoms into a great movie. It's What's Inside, written and directed by Greg Jardin, achieves this rare feat...
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.
