Premiering just as the festival was winding down, Phil Dorling and Ron Nyswaner's Predisposed offered a semi-light final note to a week and a half of everyt...
Sometimes all you need is two actors, one room and one camera. Do that 28 times over, and you have a gem of a film. Of course, this takes a great deal of confid...
Mark Webber has been around for years. It's about time everybody noticed him and recognized his talent. At this year's Sundance Film Festival, Webber appears in...
Sleepwalk With Me, written and directed by Mike Birbiglia, is the manifestation of a stand-up routine in feature film form. Think an episode of Louie, only 90 m...
Offering little more than the novelty of a simply-designed robot next to actor Frank Langella, the high-concept, small sci-fi Robot and Frank never quite commit...
Movies about teenage strife are incredibly hard to get right. Blame it on John Hughes. Blame it on the suburbs. Blame it on the Sundance Film Festival. Plainly ...
Despite its mixed reception (we loved it) at the festival, Antonio Campos' dark character study Simon Killer, starring Brady Corbet is in the final stages o...
The Words, written and directed by Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman, is an unabashed piece of romantic cinema. It's central romance? The written word; the idea t...
People have been talking in movies since the beginning. Since the late 1920s, audiences have been able to hear them talk. Since Preston Sturges' films, they've ...
Smashed, a film about the effects of alcoholism, is a relic in many ways. Alcoholism in movies does not generally hold the same weight as other films about addi...
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.
