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...
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...
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.
