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...
For all those who love Notting Hill and Rachel McAdams, get excited. The talented starlet has jumped aboard writer/director Richard Curtis' About Time, a "f...
Free Samples, directed by Jay Gammill, feels like a short film stretched out in to feature length, to only a mild degree of success. Starring indie darling Jess...
The road to the silver screen for the Red Dawn remake has been long, winding, confusing, aggravating, borderline offensive and, finally, tiresome. Open Road...
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.
