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....
For a good long while, Cop Car, directed by Jon Watts, plays like a wonderful genre picture, featuring two impressive lead performances from child actors James ...
From top to toe, Mora Stephens' Zipper plays like one of those sections in certain House of Cards episodes that feel cheap and easy and trashy. For a minute or ...
Sarah Silverman shines in I Smile Back, a fairly standard, though very dark, addiction drama driven by its superb leading performance. Laney (Silverman) is marr...
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.
