Dan Mecca

[Review] About Last Night

One of three separate remakes of 1980's films to come out this Valentine's Day weekend, Steve Pink's About Last Night is an adequately sweet, funny, sometimes s...

[Review] Winter’s Tale

The bevy of woeful decisions made by writer/director Akiva Goldsman throughout his adaptation of Mark Helprin's impressive 1983 novel Winter's Tale will surely ...

[Sundance Review] Camp X-Ray

There's a noble attempt in Camp X-Ray, written and directed by Peter Sattler, to make a war movie that's about individuals rather than ideals. Set in Guantanamo...

[Sundance Review] Memphis

Deep within the tumultuous, creative mind of musician Willis Earl Beal (played by the real-life musician of the same name) is where writer/director Tim Sutton's...

[Sundance Review] The One I Love

The driving force behind the very clever two-handed chamber piece The One I Love is communication. How we talk to those we love and those that love us. Mark Dup...

[Sundance Review] The Trip To Italy

If all one needs to make a movie if a girl and a gun, as per Godard, then perhaps all you need to make a good comedy is two guys in a restaurant, talking about ...

[Sundance Review] Song One

No doubt about, Song One has it's heart in the right place. Set in Williamsburg and focusing on the indie music scene that populates that piece of North Brookyl...

[Sundance Review] Calvary

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...

[Sundance Review] Boyhood

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...

[Sundance Review] Young Ones

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...

Dan Mecca

Managing Editor

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.