In its best moments, Lone Survivor, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg, is a lean, mean thrill machine reminiscent of something like Black Hawk D...
Saving Mr. Banks, directed by John Lee Hancock, has a top-notch cast and top-notch production values, not to mention a beautiful score from the great Thomas New...
Just in time for the holiday season comes White Reindeer, perhaps the saddest Christmas film ever made. It's also one of the better Christmas films to come out ...
Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, ever the force to be reckoned with, returns with another drama experiment that will no doubt find only the smallest of audiences...
Michel Gondry's new documentary, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, is nothing more than a collection of conversations with renowned philosopher Noam Chomsky, accom...
Capital, accomplished filmmaker Costa-Gavras' new film set within the world of corporate finance, is a fast-paced, cynical piece of entertainment that serves as...
Set around the edges of the Grande Raccordo Annulare (the "GRA" of the film's title), Italy's most extensive urban highway, documentarian Gianfranco Rosi observ...
The big budget sci-fi action spectacle Elysium, written and directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Matt Damon, serves as a master class in how to make stupid l...
There is a lot that is thrown into the boiling Hollywood pot that is R.I.P.D. Directed by Robert Schwentke, this afterlife crime-comedy saga takes from just abo...
Here it is, ladies and gents, that serious Jason Statham film few were expecting. Once called a more narratively-appropriate Hummingbird, now called a more Jaso...
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.
