The first word that comes to mind when thinking of how to write about Thea Hvistendahl's Handling the Undead is: dread. To expand: slow, ponderous dread. Writt...
Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story recounts and examines the incredibly compelling, tragic, redemptive story of...
When you talk about John Sayles, do you talk about America? Watching and examining his beautiful tapestry of films, this reveals itself an easy question to ask...
"Police power is immediate power." These opening words from Redditt Hudson––former police officer and co-founder of the National Coalition of Law Enforcement O...
There are few things better than when a good idea blossoms into a great movie. It's What's Inside, written and directed by Greg Jardin, achieves this rare feat...
There's something humble about Jesse Eisenberg writing, directing, and co-starring in a film, only to give its plum role to Kieran Culkin. Eisenberg, still, wr...
There is plenty in Sebastian, written and directed by Mikko Mäkelä, that is provocative. It's a focused, often handsome piece of work. It's also never entirely...
Maybe the smartest decision made in The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, is its fractured narrative device. Based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by A...
It's impossible to overstate the trauma that is explored throughout Sugarcane, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie's harrowing documentary on the sins of St...
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev's documentary Porcelain War starts with a text card: "Nearly all the footage you are about to watch was shot by the subjects...
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.
