Harold Ramis certainly didn't invent it, but his Groundhog Day made the narrative loop device a mainstream mainstay, lovingly aped in everything from Source Cod...
War, of course, is hell. We know this, but it stands that we should be reminded now and again. With The Yellow Birds, filmmaker Alexandre Moors tries to find be...
It's commonplace for a fan to say of an actor or actress they like: "I would watch him or her in anything." The Hero, written and directed by Brett Haley, makes...
From start to finish, The Big Sick, directed by Michael Showalter, works as a lovingly-rendered, cinematic answer to the dinner party question: "So how did you ...
Writer-director Jim Strouse has been a Park City mainstay for many years, constantly delivering kind, nuanced pieces of work concerning modest people doing thei...
Somewhere in America, a man named Philip teaches his young son how to take down a trophy buck. Rifle in hand, eye peaking through the scope, the kid takes the s...
"I just want people to not be assholes."
It's the theme of I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore, directed by Macon Blair, and something the film's hero...
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Al Gore's follow-up to his 2006 documentary hit An Inconvenient Truth, directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, is determi...
Update (3/17/17): The Other Side of the Wind will be coming to Netflix and that the production process has begun in Los Angeles. See the original story belo...
At times energetic and interesting, but mostly messy and overreaching, Ben Affleck's Live by Night starts out as a refreshing departure for the newly-minted Cap...
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.
