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...
The first in a series of articles that will examine individual "movie stars" and the ever-changing mark they are making on both film and pop culture....
In November 2012, a film called Gambit, starring Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz, was released into theaters in Britain. It grossed less than $2 million in the UK ...
Kevin Costner built his career as a movie star on one American Pastime. With Draft Day, directed by Ivan Reitman, we get the aged actor's continued attempt at a...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
