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...
Spike Lee is an honest original, warts and all. Over the last two-and-a half decades he's made the films he's wanted to make the way he's wanted to make then. A...
Just when it seemed the man was settling into the fade out so many once-movie stars face, Richard Gere reminds us why he became a star in the first place. Plain...
Josh Radnor, star of the hit sit-com "How I Met Your Mother," made a big splash at Sundance two years ago with his directorial debut, Happythankyoumoreplease, e...
Marking yet another interesting entry in the career of Cillian Murphy, an ambitious performer always tackling new genres and new characters, is Red Lights from ...
Get it? Premiering in the NEXT category at this year's Sundance Film Festival is That's What She Said, directed by Carrie Preston (you know her as Arlene Fo...
Update: Deadline reports that The Rite and 1408 director Mikael Hafstrom is set to direct and while Sylvester Stallone is set and while Arnold Schwarzenegge...
He's nothing if not interesting. We can certainly say that. The Broken Tower, James Franco's experimental telling of the life of poet Hart Crane (written, d...
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.
