We saw Compliance at Sundance earlier this year and were blown away. It's a beautiful and daringly disturbing film that takes a look at the way a mind/minds c...
Where has Tom Holland been all these years?
The man who gave us 80s horror classics Fright Night and Child's Play relegated himself to a slew of cheap, 9...
Later this year, we will get to see Tom Cruise beat people up as not Ethan Hunt, but rather Jack Reacher, the hero character in a slew of Lee Child novels, ...
Channing Tatum, director Steven Soderbergh and company walk a thin line throughout Magic Mike, a film that explores the world of the male stripper. It's an easy...
Still exploring the working class American south with a heavy dose of mythical storytelling, only this time with a much broader brush, Jeff Nichols' tries at ma...
Though he's a filmmaker who has painted on a large tapestry, both literally and figuratively, Bernardo Bertolucci's new film Me and You is decidedly smaller in ...
When asked if the film's message might go over some people's heads, Andrew Dominik, the writer/director of Killing Them Softly, simply asked: "It's pretty fuc...
British filmmaker Ken Loach has been around for nearly half a century, starting as a television director in England before his first feature, Poor Cow, starring...
Stepping into a packed room of journalists all waiting to ask each of them a question or two about their new film Lawless, Tom Hardy and Guy Pearce came pre...
Operating on a level of ridiculousness so high it suggests possible intention, Lee Daniels' The Paperboy is trash pile packed high, high and higher still. Adapt...
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.
