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), ...
Not unlike the last few, this year has been one marked by change: more films of every size and scope released on VOD, bigger movies (budget-wise) in theaters,...
In the 16 or so years that he's been in the game, filmmaker Joe Carnahan has built his reputation as much on the films he has made as he has on the ones he has ...
Automata, directed by Gabe Ibanez, does its damnedest to tackle those tried-and-true questions about artificial intelligence from a fresh angle. And with an imp...
A few brain cells short and a handful of years too late, The November Man arrives in theaters, the longtime passion project of former James Bond player Pierce B...
Sloppy, silly and sporadically amusing, Let's Be Cops feels like one of those 90s comedies expanded from an SNL sketch. The core idea is ripe for comedy, but th...
Can we all agree that three of these is enough?
Granted, back in 2010, the pitch seemed entertaining. An R-rated action romp, written and directed by the "ac...
Biopics, especially musical biopics, are both an easy sell and a tough nut to crack. Like the most resilient of sub-genres, the formula is so tried and true tha...
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.
