Dan Mecca

[Sundance Review] Project Nim

James Marsh's documentary Project Nim, which chronicles the life of experimental chimp Nim Chimsky (like Noam Chomsky, eh eh?), poses an interesting hypothesi...

[Review] The Way Back

Above all else, Peter Weir's new film, The Way Back, is a challenge. Telling the 'based on a true story' tale of a group of WWII POW's escape from a Siberia...

[Review] No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached starts off with our two leads as kids at a summer camp. This first scene ends with a bold question asked by the young boy, who’ll grow up ...

The Blandest Movies Of 2010

It seems like the appropriate time for a list like this, right at the beginning of the year: the wasteland of BIG film endeavors gone awry and long-delayed pr...

Dan Mecca

Managing Editor

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.