When asked if the film's message might go over some people's heads, Andrew Dominik, the writer/director of Killing Them Softly, simply asked: "It's pretty fuc...
British filmmaker Ken Loach has been around for nearly half a century, starting as a television director in England before his first feature, Poor Cow, starring...
Stepping into a packed room of journalists all waiting to ask each of them a question or two about their new film Lawless, Tom Hardy and Guy Pearce came pre...
Operating on a level of ridiculousness so high it suggests possible intention, Lee Daniels' The Paperboy is trash pile packed high, high and higher still. Adapt...
The problem with On the Road, directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries), is that it wanders, and in no real direction. Of course, that's the whole poin...
After making big waves with his Dogme classic The Celebration in 1998, Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg has made a handful of flawed and underseen films, whet...
Opening and ending with speeches about these United States and the sameness of our promised land, writer/director Andrew Dominik paints his America with blood a...
Xavier Dolan last hit the scene with Heartbeats, his second feature and stylish pseudo-remake of from the 1960s. Writing, directing and also starring in the pr...
John Hillcoat's Lawless, with its Tommy guns, tilted fedoras and backwater blues, is certainly the most American film to show at Cannes in some time. It's the 1...
Matteo Garrone's Reality never becomes the vicious criticism of unearned fame and non-stop television one might expect from the man who revived the mafia pictur...
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.
