Dan Mecca

[Review] Long Nights Short Mornings

Long Nights Short Mornings, written and directed by Chadd Harbold, follows in the footsteps of the "playboy in crisis" sub-genre, populated by the likes of Alfi...

[Review] The Accountant

That The Accountant is written by Bill Dubuque, the same man who gave us The Judge, makes so much sense, and about halfway through it becomes clear how far this...

[Review] The Girl on the Train

There's a moment somewhere in the middle of The Girl on the Train, adapted from the hit Paula Hawkins novel, in which Detective Riley (Allison Janney) lays out ...

[Review] Blood Father

If this be the movie jail that Mel Gibson is destined to die in, it could be a whole lot worse. Blood Father, directed by Jean-François Richet (Mesrine, Assault...

[Review] Our Kind of Traitor

Gorgeous and deliberate, Susanna White's Our Kind of Traitor, adapted from the John le Carré novel, exists in that ever-so murky, gray area of international pol...

[Review] Maggie’s Plan

There is a moment early on in writer/director Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan in which the titular Maggie (Greta Gerwig) and John (Ethan Hawke) trade their respe...

Dan Mecca

Managing Editor

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.