For those still without the opportunity to experience Sean Durkin's entrancing, disturbing Martha Marcy May Marlene in theaters (as it should be seen), here...
In 2008, Steve McQueen's Hunger blew many away, thanks, in equal parts, to McQueen's superb, restrained visual style and Michael Fassbender's career-making ...
Andrew Bird has been an anomaly in music since the mid-90s, meshing folk sounds with blues sounds with pop sounds, and doing most of it on his own, employin...
With all of The Hobbit chatter lately, not to mention the anticipation of Steven Spielberg's Tintin film, it's easy to forget that Peter Jackson (who's prod...
IFC Midnight has acquired ATM, the chamber thriller directed by David Brooks (his feature debut) from a script by Chris Sparling, the scribe who provided th...
Nicolas Cage is in a bit of rough patch. His turn in Joel Schumacher's Trespass has been met with laughter, the film itself disliked and virtually unseen, a...
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige and actors Colbie Smulders, Clark Gregg, Tom Hiddelston, Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo led the panel at the recent New York Comic...
James Mangold is stacking the odds in his favor. Next up he's got The Wolverine, the defunct property of Darren Aronofsky, still starring Hugh Jackman and s...
Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret feels both incomplete and uncut. What lives on the screen arrives like the bullet points of a much larger, much grander, impossi...
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.
