Veteran filmmaker John Badham is ready to get back on the feature saddle again. He's in talks to take on In The Rough, written by Leslie Boehm (the man who'...
On the heels of the commercial success of his American blockbuster debut Safe House, Swedish director Daniel Espinosa's breakout drug film Snabba Cash (a.k....
Michael Bay's $25 million weight-lifting heist/kidnapping film Pain and Gain is putting together an impressive cast. Now add one more: Anthony Mackie. He joins ...
With Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace already set to star Brian De Palma's return to the genre he revived in the 70s and 80s, Passion, a loose retelling of t...
His last film was the underrated 2008 film Traitor and he helmed a couple of episodes of the much-loved Showtime series Homeland. Now, writer/director Jeffr...
Independent film production is an ever-changing business, becoming both smaller and larger at the same time. While most anyone can make a film with a digita...
In which we learn, if you're a C.I.A. operative who's captured a world-class baddie, whatever you do, do not got to a safe house. In Safe House, directed by Dan...
Overly long and overly repetitive, Big Miracle, directed by Ken Kwapis, is nothing if not straight from the heart. Or at least aiming to be. After all, everybod...
Craig Zobel was here at Sundance a few years back with Great World of Sound, a comedy about an aspiring record producer and his strange breed of client. Thi...
James Marsh has been making movies for longer than you think. From his humble beginnings as a researcher for BBC, to his dark, experimental early days aroun...
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.
