Finally coming out at the end of another predictably superhero/remake/sequel-laden summer, Fantastic Four opens with its back against the wall. Though undeniabl...
Everyone’s favorite male stripper (sorry, male entertainer) is back. Only this time, he’s gone legit! It's been three years and Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) is ru...
Cameron Crowe has made a career telling stories of flawed men who are saved thanks to young, quasi-magical women. His best films have shown the cracks in these ...
The premise behind Etan Cohen's directorial debut, Get Hard, should work. A super-rich finance wiz named James King (Will Ferrell) is convicted for numerous cou...
The career of of British filmmaker Roland Joffé is a strange one. A television director for a decade in the U.K., he earned a Best Director Oscar nomination for...
In early 2008, David O. Russell began production on a film called Nailed, a satire meant to dig into the hypocrisies of the American healthcare system. Two year...
In the breezy rom-com The Rewrite, Hugh Grant plays Keith Michaels, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who's rundown and washed-up enough to take a teaching job in u...
How many Jason Statham movies does this make? Over the last decade or so, the star has become a staple of the mid-winter/late-summer release windows. His mid-bu...
One of the things that makes Sean Baker's Tangerine a stand-out amongst the hundreds of films that played at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival is its specific sense of time and place. Set in and around the Donut Time on Santa Monica Boulevard, Baker's film evolves into a great Los Angeles film in its hour-and-a-half runtime as it digs into the lives of two transgender prostitutes trying to get their lives in order while an Armenian cab driver finds himself caught in an odyssey all his own....
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.
