So much of so many film festivals -- Sundance especially -- feel enormously focused on metropolitan life, New York City in particular. In Where Is Kyra?, direct...
As written and directed by Matt Ruskin, the tragic story of Colin Warner doesn't so much come to life on the screen as it is responsibly recalled in Crown Heigh...
Kudos to Jack Black for trying new things. The actor seems to be on a mission to expand his comedic (and dramatic) palette with interesting turns in smaller far...
Harold Ramis certainly didn't invent it, but his Groundhog Day made the narrative loop device a mainstream mainstay, lovingly aped in everything from Source Cod...
War, of course, is hell. We know this, but it stands that we should be reminded now and again. With The Yellow Birds, filmmaker Alexandre Moors tries to find be...
It's commonplace for a fan to say of an actor or actress they like: "I would watch him or her in anything." The Hero, written and directed by Brett Haley, makes...
From start to finish, The Big Sick, directed by Michael Showalter, works as a lovingly-rendered, cinematic answer to the dinner party question: "So how did you ...
Writer-director Jim Strouse has been a Park City mainstay for many years, constantly delivering kind, nuanced pieces of work concerning modest people doing thei...
Somewhere in America, a man named Philip teaches his young son how to take down a trophy buck. Rifle in hand, eye peaking through the scope, the kid takes the s...
"I just want people to not be assholes."
It's the theme of I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore, directed by Macon Blair, and something the film's hero...
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.
