Early on in Kris Swanberg's Unexpected, inner-city school teacher Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders) finds out that she's pregnant. The timing's off, as the Chica...
Christmas time is a lonely time for many; a "time of giving" that reminds more than a few of us what we've lost. This is the feeling Christmas, Again wades in, ...
Somewhere in Brooklyn, a semi-blocked graphic novelist named Will (Jemaine Clement) catches his wife Charlie (Stephanie Allynne) cheating on him with a “monolog...
In The D Train, written and directed by Andrew Mogel and Jarred Paul, Jack Black digs into the deepest, saddest part of our social psyche to create a character ...
Every year it seems we sound the death knell of the romantic comedy. They often feel too "big" for a sometimes particular indie scene, and studios aren't making...
Like a bat out of hell does Tangerine begin, the new film from Sean Baker. Shot entirely on iPhones, this film has a very specific style and Baker is determined...
Working in the tried-and-true coming-of-age drama with a focus on sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, Ten Thousands Saints, from directors Robert Pulcini and Shari Spri...
You can't fault writer/director Nikole Beckwith for a lack of trying. Stockholm, Pennsylvania - starring Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Nixon and Jason Isaacs - dives h...
At the opening of Craig Zobel’s Z For Zachariah, it’s the end of the world and there is a woman surviving on her own. That woman’s name is Ann (Margot Robbie), ...
Not unlike the last few, this year has been one marked by change: more films of every size and scope released on VOD, bigger movies (budget-wise) in theaters,...
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.
