Since his ultra-low budget debut The Brothers McMullen in 1995, actor/writer/director Edward Burns has carved out a niche for himself as a filmmaker. And thoug...
Few things are more universal than the plight of the teenager. Whether it's in an upper-class gated community, a packed city block or a small desert town in Sou...
We expected this might be coming, and here's some confirmation. Deadline is reporting that the X-Men and X-Men 2 helmer is officially on board to direct X-M...
Olivia Wilde, Hailee Steinfeld and Nicole Behaire are set to star in The Keeping Room, directed by Daniel Barber. Barber made his feature directorial debut ...
I suppose most of us knew this news was coming. Hot on the heels of confirmation that character actor Frank Grillo is to step up to the big time as the vill...
Though Pascal Laugier might be far from a household name in the States, he is nevertheless a French horror auteur on the rise, thanks to his intensely violent 2...
Park Chan-Wook's Stoker has peaked our excitement since the moment it was announced, promising a kind of gothic Hitchcockian thriller with a supernatural tw...
While Iceland is not the first country many would associate with cinema, it's very much alive and well in the center of Reykjavik, the country's capital. An...
Though the US premiere this past Saturday of Cloud Atlas, at the New Yorker Festival, was met with cheers and jeers as the credits rolled (along with a few ...
Butter, directed by Jim Field Smith, begins brave and strong, like so many pieces of satire. And while it does form into a pleasantly light, sweet-hearted exami...
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.
