Dan Mecca

[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...

[Tribeca Review] Folk Hero & Funny Guy

The bond of male friendship is examined - and tested - in Folk Hero & Funny Guy, a short and sweet dramedy from multi-hyphenate Jeff Grace, who writes and d...

[Review] Get a Job

Directed by Dylan Kidd, Get A Job stars Miles Teller as Will, the Millennial From Hell. Fresh out of college, our hero (?) expects everything to work for him li...

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.