Campaign finance is a phrase that lingers on the fringes of most political conservations, though rarely the center of focus. Dark Money, directed by Kimberly Re...
The romantic comedy is dead. Long live the romantic comedy. There is a speed to the dialogue and action in Set It Up, directed by Claire Scanlon, that speaks to...
One of the most successful things in Amateur, written and directed by Ryan Koo, is the casting of Michael Rainey Jr. as the lead, a young basketball star on the...
Over the last half century, Al Pacino has revealed himself to be – quite objectively – one of our greatest performers, both on stage and screen. Along with his ...
Directed by Jennifer Gerber, The Revival is effective in its brevity. Running at a lean 84 minutes, the focus is on Eli (David Rysdahl), a young preacher runnin...
About thirty minutes into Nostalgia, a handful of neighbors–each affected by a recent fire–reflect on all of the things they've lost. A strangely complacent ins...
Make no mistake, filmmaker Bill Morrison is not a man trapped in the past. Though he deals in celluloid from another time, his work bridges the gap between then and now....
John Cho should be our next leading man. Above all else does the thriller Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty, make this abundantly clear. Cho stars as David...
There's a clear desire to dig into the complexities of prejudice in Burden, written and directed by Andrew Heckler and based on the true story of Mike Burden. T...
It's hard not to like Danny McBride. Since his first movie role in David Gordon Green's All The Real Girls to his breakout dark comedy The Foot Fist Way and bey...
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.
