Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Telluride coverage. Ballad of a Small Player is now in theaters and arrives on Netflix on Octobe...
"From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned," George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay "The Prevention of Literat...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. The Librarians arrives in theaters on October 3.
Kim A. Snyder's The L...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Predators opens in theaters on September 19.
Filmmaker David Osit gives vi...
In remembrance of the legendary Robert Redford, we're resharing this conversation from 2024 on his extraordinary career and most overlooked performances.
We...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) opens in theaters on September 12...
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) is the kind of small film you hope to discover at a festival. Written and directed by Sierra Falconer in her featur...
The Bend in the River, director Robb Moss' third installment in his running chronicle of his friends' lives (following The Same River Twice in 2003 and Riverdo...
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.
