Calvary opens hard on Father James (Brendan Gleeson) sitting in his confessional, listening to his parishioners' sins. In comes a scarily calm voice from the ot...
Exactly one year after completing his accomplished Before trilogy at Sundance, writer-director Richard Linklater returns with Boyhood, a film 12 years in the ma...
Young Ones, from writer/director Jake Paltrow, opens with a bang, and spends the rest of the time trying to live up to its promise of smart and entertaining sci...
How blue can human eyes get? The question is answered succinctly in Adam Wingard's The Guest, a comfortably diverting riff on most all of the action/thriller el...
The great adventure at the heart of Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here is the search for purpose. An answer to the question, 'why are we here? And for what reason?' E...
Clearly inheriting its thematic ambition from the old adage of “less is more,” The Sleepwalker takes a good long while to do not too much, and although the jour...
Just when you thought the "Brooklyn in film" trope was tired and played-out on the festival circuit, here comes Obvious Child. Set primarily in Williamsburg, wr...
God’s Pocket, the feature directorial debut of Mad Men’s John Slattery, is a dark comedy determined to paint a distinct picture of small life in a very particul...
Mere hours before the start of the 2014, Strange Bird, The Film Stage's first official foray into originally-produced film content, got funded! This is a bi...
Closing out our year-end coverage is individual top ten lists from a variety of The Film Stage contributors, leading up to a cumulative best-of rundown. Make ...
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.
