With John Krokidas’ Kill You Darlings, we are given yet another entry into the still-burgeoning Beat Generation brand. At this Sundance alone, we have been help...
Point in fact, very little is necessary about Fredrik Bond's mostly dreadful feature debut The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. Starring Shia LaBeouf as t...
The Way, Way Back, written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, is the kind of independent film the Sundance Film Festival has become synonymous with: a wide...
Spanning the course of 18 years, Richard Linklater's incomparable Before trilogy establishes itself as one of - if not the - great American chronicles of our ti...
In nearly every possible way is Drake Doremus' Like Crazy follow-up, Breathe In, a more mature, confident and impressive piece of work. For the first hour at le...
Nary a year (or even half a year) goes by on the festival circuit without a new film from Michael Winterbottom. This 2013, the ever-prolific filmmaker gives us ...
Valentine Road, directed by Marta Cunningham, is a challenging piece of documentary that forces you to look at prejudice from several different angles, and look...
It would appear it is safe to call January the Month of Mark Wahlberg. Twelve months ago, the second-tier movie star provided the reliably entertaining thriller...
In anticipation for his newest actioner Jack Reacher, hitting theaters today, we have decided to reflect on one of movie star Tom Cruise's most iconic as...
Since its Broadway premiere 25 years ago, Hollywood has been trying to figure out how to monetize the hit musical Les Miserables, based on Victor Hugo's novel, ...
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.
