Dan Mecca

[Review] Magic Mike

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...

[Cannes Review] Mud

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...

[Cannes Review] Me and You

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 ...

[Cannes Review] The Angels’ Share

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...

[Cannes Review] The Paperboy

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...

[Cannes Review] On the Road

The problem with On the Road, directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries), is that it wanders, and in no real direction. Of course, that's the whole poin...

[Cannes Review] The Hunt

After making big waves with his Dogme classic The Celebration in 1998, Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg has made a handful of flawed and underseen films, whet...

[Cannes Review] Killing Them Softly

Opening and ending with speeches about these United States and the sameness of our promised land, writer/director Andrew Dominik paints his America with blood a...

Dan Mecca

Managing Editor

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.