There's something humble about Jesse Eisenberg writing, directing, and co-starring in a film, only to give its plum role to Kieran Culkin. Eisenberg, still, wr...
There is plenty in Sebastian, written and directed by Mikko Mäkelä, that is provocative. It's a focused, often handsome piece of work. It's also never entirely...
Maybe the smartest decision made in The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, is its fractured narrative device. Based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by A...
It's impossible to overstate the trauma that is explored throughout Sugarcane, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie's harrowing documentary on the sins of St...
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev's documentary Porcelain War starts with a text card: "Nearly all the footage you are about to watch was shot by the subjects...
Did Beauty kill the Beast? Or was it the other way around? Or maybe they lived happily ever after? Writer-director Caroline Lindy plays with classical expectat...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that the...
And so the "life-changing cab ride" sub-genre expands with Driving Madeleine, directed by Christian Carion and starring Line Renaud and Dany Boon. One likes to...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here - today - we talk about movie EDITORS! Not the movies they edited that were legendary but the less legendary o...
How do you make rowing look interesting? That's one of the challenges George Clooney faced with The Boys in the Boat, the new film based on the Daniel James Br...
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.
