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...
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...
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.
