In August of 1971, Dr. Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment at Stanford University, in which 24 male students took on the role of either prison guard or pris...
Early on in Kris Swanberg's Unexpected, inner-city school teacher Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders) finds out that she's pregnant. The timing's off, as the Chica...
Christmas time is a lonely time for many; a "time of giving" that reminds more than a few of us what we've lost. This is the feeling Christmas, Again wades in, ...
Somewhere in Brooklyn, a semi-blocked graphic novelist named Will (Jemaine Clement) catches his wife Charlie (Stephanie Allynne) cheating on him with a “monolog...
In The D Train, written and directed by Andrew Mogel and Jarred Paul, Jack Black digs into the deepest, saddest part of our social psyche to create a character ...
Every year it seems we sound the death knell of the romantic comedy. They often feel too "big" for a sometimes particular indie scene, and studios aren't making...
Like a bat out of hell does Tangerine begin, the new film from Sean Baker. Shot entirely on iPhones, this film has a very specific style and Baker is determined...
Working in the tried-and-true coming-of-age drama with a focus on sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, Ten Thousands Saints, from directors Robert Pulcini and Shari Spri...
You can't fault writer/director Nikole Beckwith for a lack of trying. Stockholm, Pennsylvania - starring Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Nixon and Jason Isaacs - dives h...
At the opening of Craig Zobel’s Z For Zachariah, it’s the end of the world and there is a woman surviving on her own. That woman’s name is Ann (Margot Robbie), ...
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.
