Even for the twisty paranoid thriller sub-genre, there is a whole lot going on in Yann Gozlan's Black Box. Not boring yet not quite enveloping, the film never ...
There's a moment in Hello, Bookstore, directed by A.B. Zax, wherein Matt Tannenbaum––owner of The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts––spots a happy customer pic...
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...
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 they made in...
One of the best things about As They Made Us, written and directed by Mayim Bialik, is its pronounced lack of judgment. An indie dramedy heavy on the drama, Bi...
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...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we usually talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones t...
Kelvin Harrison Jr. feels like one hit film away from being a full-fledged movie star. In Joe Wright’s Cyrano, the young actor shines as Christian, a handsome ...
There is a moment forty minutes into Joe Wright's Cyrano where everything kicks up a notch. As a military regiment practices their swordcraft on a stunning pie...
Hello everyone, welcome to the B-Side Podcast for The Film Stage where we talk about movie stars and filmmakers – not the movies that made them famous or kept ...
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.