Deep within the tumultuous, creative mind of musician Willis Earl Beal (played by the real-life musician of the same name) is where writer/director Tim Sutton's...
The driving force behind the very clever two-handed chamber piece The One I Love is communication. How we talk to those we love and those that love us. Mark Dup...
If all one needs to make a movie if a girl and a gun, as per Godard, then perhaps all you need to make a good comedy is two guys in a restaurant, talking about ...
No doubt about, Song One has it's heart in the right place. Set in Williamsburg and focusing on the indie music scene that populates that piece of North Brookyl...
Calvary opens hard on Father James (Brendan Gleeson) sitting in his confessional, listening to his parishioners' sins. In comes a scarily calm voice from the ot...
Exactly one year after completing his accomplished Before trilogy at Sundance, writer-director Richard Linklater returns with Boyhood, a film 12 years in the ma...
Young Ones, from writer/director Jake Paltrow, opens with a bang, and spends the rest of the time trying to live up to its promise of smart and entertaining sci...
How blue can human eyes get? The question is answered succinctly in Adam Wingard's The Guest, a comfortably diverting riff on most all of the action/thriller el...
The great adventure at the heart of Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here is the search for purpose. An answer to the question, 'why are we here? And for what reason?' E...
Clearly inheriting its thematic ambition from the old adage of “less is more,” The Sleepwalker takes a good long while to do not too much, and although the jour...
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.
