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...
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...
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...
Xavier Dolan last hit the scene with Heartbeats, his second feature and stylish pseudo-remake of from the 1960s. Writing, directing and also starring in the pr...
John Hillcoat's Lawless, with its Tommy guns, tilted fedoras and backwater blues, is certainly the most American film to show at Cannes in some time. It's the 1...
Matteo Garrone's Reality never becomes the vicious criticism of unearned fame and non-stop television one might expect from the man who revived the mafia pictur...
With each new film, Michel Gondry falls further and further away from his Charlie Kaufman-scripted opus, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Here in Cannes w...
Political debates can be well worth the time and aggravation they take up, both educating and challenging each participant to think about important topics in ne...
Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker and Helen Mirren are back. So there's that. Also, if you really liked that first Red movie and felt like al...
Chloe Moretz has been keeping busy lately, clearly determined to separate herself from the rest of the child acting pact. She's played a hit-girl, a vampire...
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.
