Relativity Media has acquired worldwide rights to the heist comedy Loomis Fargo, which is still set to star Jim Carrey after being announced last fall. Reme...
During a chat with Empire, the Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington revealed that his third foray in directing will come in the much-loved August Wilson play Fence...
Two recording studios in two very different towns. One in Alabama, surrounded by thick ponds and dirt roads. The other surrounded by Hollywood, deep in the vall...
Against all odds, Francesca Gregorini's Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes swims in a bevy of indie film clichés and emerges mostly unscathed, building a quite ...
Working with a subject matter that at least half of the country can directly relate to, A.C.O.D. (a.k.a. Adult Children of Divorce), starring Adam Scott, works ...
Something of a Sundance darling, Lynn Shelton mastered the art of the micro-drama with Humpday and Your Sister's Sister, two small indies with high concepts and...
There is an ease at which Matthew Porterfield's I Used To Be Darker moves that is at once aggravating and captivating. Telling the deceivingly simple tale of on...
With John Krokidas’ Kill You Darlings, we are given yet another entry into the still-burgeoning Beat Generation brand. At this Sundance alone, we have been help...
Point in fact, very little is necessary about Fredrik Bond's mostly dreadful feature debut The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman. Starring Shia LaBeouf as t...
The Way, Way Back, written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, is the kind of independent film the Sundance Film Festival has become synonymous with: a wide...
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.