There is a moment early on in writer/director Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan in which the titular Maggie (Greta Gerwig) and John (Ethan Hawke) trade their respe...
It's all about #brand loyalty for The Lonely Island in their first "official" movie, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which stays true to the absurdist, bite...
The bond of male friendship is examined - and tested - in Folk Hero & Funny Guy, a short and sweet dramedy from multi-hyphenate Jeff Grace, who writes and d...
Directed by Dylan Kidd, Get A Job stars Miles Teller as Will, the Millennial From Hell. Fresh out of college, our hero (?) expects everything to work for him li...
The biggest problem with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny, the sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is that it is the sequel to Crouching T...
From start to finish, Christian Ditter's How To Be Single struggles to be both a forward-thinking comedy about women dating in the modern world and a reliably g...
Here is where I go off-book for my final Sundance review. The film is Nicolas Pesce's frightening The Eyes of My Mother, and I am not its target audience. This ...
For much of its 79 minutes, Tahir Jetter's How To Tell You're A Douchebag feels like the type of raw, DIY and impressive indie picture that barely stands a chan...
There is nary a film genre more tried and true than the war-time romance. From Casablanca to Doctor Zhivago to The English Patient, the structure allows for a m...
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.
