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...
It is fascinating what the human mind will allow. Riefenstahl, a documentary directed by Andres Veiel about the life of Leni Riefenstahl, explores the rati...
About an hour into This is Not a Drill, the new documentary from director Oren Jacoby, comes a moment that is stark and unsettling. Sitting next to her daughte...
One of the most rewarding things about falling in love with a film is then falling in love with all of the things that inspired its creation. What are the book...
Welcome to The B-Side, a podcast from The Film Stage! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones th...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. East of Wall opens in theaters on August 15.
The degree of difficulty in m...
Boys Go to Jupiter, an animated feature directed and written by Pittsburgh-based 3D artist Julian Glander, is truly a product of its time. And that time is now...
Amy Berg's It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley is an impressive archival document as well as a celebration of the life of a tortured artist. And while the term "tort...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.&nb...
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.
