What does 2019 look like for a young person in a coastal city? For many, Brittany Runs a Marathon will feel like an apt rendering. Starring the great Jillian Be...
There's so much about the infamous Roy Cohn that's worth exploring. That accomplished documentarian Matt Tyrnauer has dipped his toe into the lawyer and master ...
Can we talk about Matthias Schoenaerts? The Belgian actor made a splash on the festival circuit with Bullhead in 2011, leading to roles–both lead and supporting...
There is so much passion, so much love behind (and in front) of the camera in Blinded by the Light that it makes this negative review rather hard to write. Dire...
The sheer amount of style that writer/director Makoto Nagahisa shows off in We Are Little Zombies is impressive. Aesthetically, there is a lot going on here. Fo...
Geraldine Viswanathan, welcome to the rest of your career. The young star, who stole scenes in last year's comedy Blockers, is the lead in Hala, written and dir...
How does one review the movie about the murderous paintings? Velvet Buzzsaw, written and directed by Dan Gilroy, looks and sounds like some kind of satire; a ta...
There's something special about The Farewell. Written and directed by Lulu Wang and starring Awkwafina, this is the kind of film that feels specific and univers...
The impetus for The Last Black Man In San Francisco in 2019 makes a lot of sense. Cities like San Francisco have been changing, due to an influx of mostly young...
For the first bit of Late Night, directed by Nisha Ganatra and written by Mindy Kaling, everything's working and working well. What's introduced as the central ...
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.
